Nick (Michael Cera) is the only straight guy in a gay punk band called the Jerk Offs. Norah (Kat Deennings) is a parochial school girl who just happens to be a queen in the New York City club scene. Their one tangible bond that links them at the beginning of the film is Nick's former girlfriend Tris (Alexis Dziena) who happens to be a friend of Norahs and discards the unending volumes of mix CD's only to have them wind up in the hands of Norah, who loves them. The way their two worlds collide is at a club where the Jerk Offs are playing. Norah is there with her drunken sidekick Caroline (Ari Gaynor) when Tris appears and Norah fibs about being there with her boyfriend. This is when fate takes over and Norah selects Nick from the guys at the bar and asks her to be her boyfriend for five minutes and kisses him. New York City at night takes over as the pair pend an evening in the city looking for the drunken Caroline and chasing the enigmatic band Where's Fluffy. Of course during these quests they end up falling for each other. You could almost call this After Hours: The Next Generation. What can go wrong does go wrong, but instead of Griffin Dunne going through hell you get these two kids slowly going down that road that leads to love. It's a quirky little story that uses a couple of over the top characters as co-stars, but once again the main co star is New York City itself, though the director (Peter Sollett) tends to ram it down your throat at times. A city in the film should be behind the actors, not overshadowing them. In the end Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is a good teenage romance/comedy that doesn't use sex humor and profanity to get a laugh and tell it's story. It's ala American Grafitti. It's a good romp through the five boroughs.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) ****
Nick (Michael Cera) is the only straight guy in a gay punk band called the Jerk Offs. Norah (Kat Deennings) is a parochial school girl who just happens to be a queen in the New York City club scene. Their one tangible bond that links them at the beginning of the film is Nick's former girlfriend Tris (Alexis Dziena) who happens to be a friend of Norahs and discards the unending volumes of mix CD's only to have them wind up in the hands of Norah, who loves them. The way their two worlds collide is at a club where the Jerk Offs are playing. Norah is there with her drunken sidekick Caroline (Ari Gaynor) when Tris appears and Norah fibs about being there with her boyfriend. This is when fate takes over and Norah selects Nick from the guys at the bar and asks her to be her boyfriend for five minutes and kisses him. New York City at night takes over as the pair pend an evening in the city looking for the drunken Caroline and chasing the enigmatic band Where's Fluffy. Of course during these quests they end up falling for each other. You could almost call this After Hours: The Next Generation. What can go wrong does go wrong, but instead of Griffin Dunne going through hell you get these two kids slowly going down that road that leads to love. It's a quirky little story that uses a couple of over the top characters as co-stars, but once again the main co star is New York City itself, though the director (Peter Sollett) tends to ram it down your throat at times. A city in the film should be behind the actors, not overshadowing them. In the end Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is a good teenage romance/comedy that doesn't use sex humor and profanity to get a laugh and tell it's story. It's ala American Grafitti. It's a good romp through the five boroughs.
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