It's hard to explain why chewing plastic is not tasty

Rating: 2/10 (8 October 2012)

It just isn't. The plastic may look pretty, colorful and in sepia. The plastic may try to appeal by looking cute and quirky. It even may try to sell you with hints of lolita-eqsue scenes, but at the end of the day it is still plastic.
The plot is boring and predictable. The characters are completely 2D. I don't know why A- listers decided to participate in this snooze fest. It's hard to relate to any of the characters. The girl is your typical angsty teenager, the boy has some drama added to his character through heavy-handed "he is an orphan and his foster parents don't want him" twist that is half-assed at best. The movie never explains why everyone hates/hated him and why his foster parents don't want him.
It reminds me of one of those stories your grandma tries to tell you, about the "back in the days", when there was hay and she walked to school for an hour each way.
It is colorful boring plastic that no matter how hard you chew stays plastic and no matter how hard you try, you can never explain, why you don't like it. But the explanation is simple - it's tasteless blah plastic and so is this movie. I guess the only audience for it is some nostalgic 60- 70 year-olds that were in the scouts.
90 minutes of my life wasted.