Didn't work for me

Rating: 4/10 (29 March 2010)

The main weakness to this movie is that John Cusack's character isn't very likable, which makes his relationship troubles rather uninteresting. He might find some luck, he might not, I don't really care. He's way too whiny to like, and the many occasions on which he talks directly to the camera are downright cringe-inducing. Allison married Kevin! I don't care dude. Leave me alone. Another thing that bothers me here is the unstoppable avalanche of pop culture references. Pretty much every band the writers like is mentioned in this movie, which comes of as pompous in a "hey, check out the obscure stuff we know" kind of way. They try their best at clever dialogue, but then bail on that and figure they can just play some Beta Band music. Generally when a movie has a cult status I can at least see why exactly that is, even if I don't like it. Here however, I'm just dumbfounded. I don't even remember half of it even though I've just seen it. Anyway, I sat through it because there are some good performances here and there, but there's little else I enjoyed.