Fun until there's a tremendous buzzkill

Rating: 6/10 (4 November 2009)

The heroine played by Kat Dennings is worth spending time with. She's gorgeous and likable. And Michael Cera's got a nice presence, but considering these are high schoolers running around night clubs, I kept thinking about the Polanski debacle. The buzzkill was in the gratuitous mention of a religion in a movie that didn't need it. The movie is about how high school relationships change overnight in an urban environment devoid of adult supervision and cops. This takes place in a sort of idealized playland where the only real troubles are of the love connection kind. There's a funny recurring bit about an almost all gay band and some more gay scenes later on, but it's mostly the Nick meets Norah saga. Everybody will be familiar with many of the characters some done very well, like the evil heart-breaker, Dev.