Disappointing if you've read the book

Rating: 4/10 (20 February 2016)

Despite it being a cute movie, whenever I read a book first, the movie falls short. In the book, Augustus is a charming and seriously witty guy....and his relationship with Isaac is hilarious. The movie leaves out some of the most clever lines and replaces it with...nothing. It's not a terrible movie, but I think the script was a little flat and missed the essence of the characters described in the book. I feel like they just blew through the entire movie too quickly, like they were trying to cram it all in. If there was too much in the novel to make a movie, they should have picked some of the key scenes and developed the story around that rather than barely scratch the surface. The book gave so much to work with. I'm disappointed, to say the least.