Overheated Style Over Substance

Rating: 1/10 (11 December 2010)

I can't believe all the good reviews for this movie. All the little flourishes, endless graphics and quick cuts deflect from the fact that there is very little story or character development. This is cutesy, precious, look-at-me filmmaking at its worst! The humor is sophomoric. Just putting up silly graphics every two seconds doesn't mean that the content of the graphics is remotely funny. It's like the writers saw the first ten minutes of "Fight Club" and thought if they added a bunch of bells and whistles, that would be extremely clever. It's not. Plus, Michael Cera looks like an ostrich or a young Sandy Duncan. I weep for the younger generation if this is their idea of a classic.