Fantastic adaption

Rating: 9/10 (5 June 2014)

Trying to review the movie, I face the same challenge as I had in reviewing the book. It's such a fantastic, tragic, ecstatic, funny, thoughtful story, and for me there's just too much going on, too many wonderful aspects to it, to ever properly convey it in writing or speech.
I read the book five times, the first time canon-balled in six hours, one time out loud to my girlfriend. The story is important to me on so many levels, and as a result I was immensely nervous walking into the theater. I'd seen that John Green loved it, I'd seen him interacting with the cast, I'd seen the trailer, but I had to see the movie for myself to be sure. I wanted the movie to do the book justice. It did not disappoint.
It was noted above my review, but for those of you who haven't read the book, THERE ARE SPOILERS BELOW.
More than anything, the movie conveys the emotion of the book extremely well. Hazel's apathy and depression at the beginning of the book, the spark created by Augustus. The elation and disappointment from the on and off state of the trip to Amsterdam, and the absolute dread when Augustus says, "I lit up like a Christmas tree". It's all there, and it does all of that while being able to make you cry one moment, and burst into laughter the next just as well as the book did, or even experience both simultaneously.
Some scenes were cut that I would have preferred be left in, but I am happy they weren't afraid to take the film over two hours in length, if only slightly. I do look forward to seeing deleted scenes, including John's cameo, later down the road when the DVD comes out. Until then, I'll wait happily, knowing that there's one more movie out there in the exclusive club of excellent, and truly good movie adaptations of books.