There are just two possible scenario for you to like this movie

Rating: 5/10 (28 January 2013)

1) You are the author of the novel / writer of the screenplay / director of the film / real life teenage sufferer as described in the story. The events are your life, thus boring or not boring, you love to see them translated on the screen.
2) You are a teenager yourself, going through a time which might be similar to the one experienced by any of the protagonists, so you feel yourself identified with their story.
In any of the two previous cases, you probably think this movie is a masterpiece.
If nothing of the above applies, you might think as I do: This is a movie with great performances, but the story is absolutely flat and extremely predictable with huge clichés as main characters. It feels they have used the same pattern as in any other "coming of age story". The only thing which is not that predictable (all the mental issues plot which I won't discuss here to keep this spoiler free) is very overlooked by the main story, and when it gets into it, it gets a treatment very in a rush, as if the writer didn't think it's so important.
And by the way, the image of teenagers listening to "The Smiths" and stating how great taste in music they have, not listening to other mainstream garbage, is already a parody. In fact, when "The Smiths" name was said for the first time in this movie, I couldn't avoid laughing.
I will stay away from upcoming coming of age stories, unless they prove to be more original and don't use so many clichés.
And for the writers out there: Nobody cares about how much you suffered in high school... except people going through high school, so I guess you can understand how people outside high school is not very interested in what you have to say.