Pretty lame movie

Rating: Null/10 (22 January 2005)

I'm not sure why everyone is hyping this movie such as they are. It's funny, one of the reviews said it defined the generation of people in their teens and early 20s. Wasn't XXX supposed to do that? Actually if this movie applied to any age group, it would be late 20s, maybe early 30s.
The dialogue was terrible. Like fingernails against the chalkboard bad. Plus there wasn't much of a storyline.
It's funny, if an unknown writer tried to pitch this script, the reaction would be "Who cares. Why would anyone want to watch some slice of life movie about your home town?"
But because this guy is on some TV show, and conned Portman and Holm into doing this, we have Garden State.
The only good thing about this is that you get to watch that little hottie Natalie Portman. But your time would be better spent watching "Closer", where you get to see more of Portman (and I'm talking' skin here), you get better dialogue, and a movie that is a Mike Nichols film, not one that wants to be.