Forgettable songs, no story to speak of

Rating: 4/10 (17 July 2013)

I know a lot of people love this little indie musical, and that it even has come to Broadway, but I found this terribly dull. In fact, I would have stopped watching early on if I hadn't been watching with my girlfriend, who had seen it before and inexplicably wanted to see it again.
To me, there is very little to recommend this. There is little story, since most of the movie is made up of people singing, sometimes while sitting and sometimes while standing. The songs themselves are not especially interesting; the only one I liked at all was the first one sung together by the two leads, and even though it was nice enough, it's not like I would actually pursue listening to it again.
Basically, people meet, write songs, sing songs, talk about writing songs, and that's about it. Yes, there's the occasional talk about something other than songs, like relationships, and there is some stuff unspoken that might appeal to people who like things that are unspoken, but you have to really want to see a movie where people sit around and sing bland songs to fully enjoy this.