Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - it's quite everything

I know I said I'd review Push, it's on it's way, but first I thought I'd review this as I literally just finished watching it.

I watched a short trailer before watching this and was told by the pretty lady presenting the show that this was a film driven by the soundtrack, much like Garden State (Brilliant Film!) and The Graduate (pretty good), so being a lover of film and music I thought I'd give it a watch.


As you can pretty much tell from the title it's about a boy called Nick and a girl named Norah who are both hugely into their music and both in ending/complicated relationships. They stumble across each other and we see their relationship develop over a course of a night. Music plays a pretty important role in this film as it links our two characters together.

So by "quite everything", I actually mean, it's only quite funny, quite feel good, the script is quite well written, and it's all quite good. But in my opinion never really enough. The soundtrack is excellent though (featuring Vampire Weekend. We are Scientists and Chris Bell to name a few - I'm a fan of films which incorporate music as a drive for the story, don't get me wrong, but the music should never be better than the film itself.

There are some really sweet moments in it and a few lines which are really funny but it kinda feels as if the film never takes off. The film is set over one day which although is a good idea in concept, it just slows the pace of the film. The two main stars, Michael Cera and Kat Dennings are fine, no surprises there (I'd quite like to see Cera do something a bit different now), and I was quite satisfied by the end, I just think the film was lacking excitement. I enjoyed it I guess, not enough to watch it again or really recommend though, just one of those films which if you stumble across stick it on, it'll fill an hour and twenty - won't effect you in anyway but it's mildly entertaining - a disappointing 6 (just) out of 10.