Pointless, Corny and Pretentious

Rating: 2/10 (21 July 2014)

This is typically the kind of film I despise, I call them Sundance film, they are the Canada Dry of art film, it looks like an art film, it smells like an art film but it's just another rubbish ROM com that wants really badly to be hip. It borrows a bit of the Wes Anderson aesthetics to be quirky (wow his jumper matches the sofa) but all the characters are clichés and lame, it wants desperately to be the document of a generation ( listen to the shins, it will save your life ermmmmmmm, it's not Bob Dylan or Public Enemy). A bit of cutesy folk there for emotion, some Coldplay (wow very marginal). It's contrived, cheesy and wants to be controversial (drugs! Great, the corporate lawyer that lives next to my flat takes drugs, and he's anything but cool, interesting or deep). And worst of all, that scene where Zack Braff (it's not a character really is it, it's him wanting the world to be miserable, the ultimate victim) wants to makes us cry using the brother that died when he was a kid, he feels guilty because he didn't save him, so right he's all messed up and all. Well it didn't happened to you, write it for a character, but not for lachrymal power. I felt truly disgusted by this scene, mostly because you can tell there's no ethics behind, no meaning, and Zack Braff not being a good drama actor makes it awkward. And casting Nathalie Portman so you can kiss the hot chick is very pathetic.