Cute but nothing special

Rating: 6/10 (27 February 2008)

Well, I must confess I'm rather shocked by the extremely highly rating given to this movie by the IMDb users. In my opinion, this movie is too overrated. It's only a teen-movie, for god's sake, filled with all the elements we're tired of seeing in any other teen-movie: The stupid dialogs (seriously, does any kid speak like that in real life?), the catatonic American-rock songs, the not-so-funny jokes etc.
Anyway, it sure is cute, light-hearted and positive. One thing I don't understand though, is how in the world did this movie won an Oscar? We may as well start considering if the Oscar-thing faces steadily its decadence.
A couple of elements of the movie I would like to comment, are the following: a) The structure of the movie, divided in the four seasons, is quite interesting; The girl changes her moods according to the change of seasons. b) The symbolization of the running students is also well given; the boy, who is an athlete, finds happiness when he stops 'running' (from his responsibilities, that is). c) The dialogs (as mentioned above) aren't very realistic; perhaps they hide some irony or they intend to make a parody out of the standard teen-movie. All these elements, that reveal a movie well worked, save the whole thing from being a failure. But they aren't sufficient to create a movie deserving a 8.2 rating either!