Unusual but good and entertaining movie set in NYC.

Rating: Null/10 (23 March 2009)

First I have to start with the premise of the movie. High school kids in New Jersey, wanna-be band members themselves, embark on a weekend night hunt for "Fluffy", the name of a band they all adore. Hints are given by the media but finding where Fluffy is performing is some sort of treasure hunt.
Enter the characters. Michael Cera is "Jerk-Offs" guitarist Nick, who it seems has been recently rejected by his girlfriend, Alexis Dziena as Tris. She is a manipulator, she won't answer his calls, she cheats on him, but she gets jealous if some other girl shows an interest. Nick has been making music CDs for her, great mixes in hopes of getting her to come back. But Tris just discards them.
But one of Tris' school friends is Kat Dennings as Norah, who intercepts the discarded CDs, and enjoys them, even though she has no clue who Nick is.
Then, out in NYC by sheer coincidence Norah goes up to Nick and kisses him, because she has told Tris that she has a new date. That sparks all the rest of the events of that long night into the pre-dawn hours.
The script is very smart and very funny, and all the actors do a good job and resist the urge to make this just a gross-out movie. Although my wife could not watch the bathroom scene, especially after the drunk girl vomited into the toilet then she reached in to retrieve both her cell phone and her gum! Norah, as it turns out, is the daughter of a famous music producer and owner of a recording studio. Plus Nick and Norah seem perfect for each other, after they got to know each other.