500 Days of Summer (2009)
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 209
Fresh: 181 | Rotten: 28
A clever, offbeat romantic comedy, 500 Days of Summer is refreshingly honest and utterly charming.
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Critic Reviews: 43
Fresh: 39 | Rotten: 4
A clever, offbeat romantic comedy, 500 Days of Summer is refreshingly honest and utterly charming.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel star in director Marc Webb's wry, nonlinear romantic comedy about a man who falls head over heels for a woman who doesn't believe in love. Tom (Gordon-Levitt) is an aspiring architect who currently earns his living as a greeting card writer. Upon encountering his boss' beautiful new secretary, Summer (Deschanel), Tom discovers that the pair have plenty in common despite the fact that she's seemingly out of his league; for starters, they both love the
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All Critics (211) | Top Critics (44) | Fresh (183) | Rotten (28) | DVD (9)
It's very smooth and well done; Marc Webb clearly has a solid visual eye and natural sense of pacing.
If it just misses being this generation's 'Annie Hall', it's still deliciously refreshing, sweet and fizzy. A sherbet dip of a movie.
This is a romantic comedy that makes the concept of romantic comedies appealing again -- that reminds you how resonant and transporting they can be when they're done right.
It isn't Hugh and Andie or Meg and whomever, but (500) Days offers hope that Hollywood can pass that romance baton to somebody other than the crude crew of the Kappa Alpha Apatow frat house.
The film's postmodern path takes us through touching, tender, hilarious territory before winding up at the most beguiling part of any love story. The beginning.
Top CriticThis is movie magic most unexpected.
Inventive, original and hugely relatable, (500) Days Of Summer is the perfect screen deconstruction of a relationship, for once, from the man's point of view.
Tom and Summer may not be the most emotionally stable people on the planet, and if they were my friends, I'd have little sympathy for them.
As Summer, Zooey Deschanel is an enchanting, blue-eyed mixture of nearness and distance. You can see why Tom loves her, even as she stomps on his heart.
You've seen this movie before (just usually with a fakey big-kiss ending; extra points here for the blunt honesty about breakups) but this one is just right for Right Now.
(500) Days of Summer is as close to perfect as a movie gets. A highly subjective claim? Sure, but so are all movie reviews, and this is hardly the time to get into that argument.
Zany visuals and spirited performances makes 500 Days of Summer an entertaining chronicle of the making and breaking of a modern secular relationship.
An endearing, well-acted film that takes a conventional premise and turns it into something wonderfully unconventional.
Sweet and cute, but capable of so much more.
Hopefully writers Neustadter and Weber have already got another project in the works.
This is the movie The Breakup was advertised to be.
Gimmicky love story that's not saved by its bittersweet ending. Acting is more than just cooing with your eyes. It seemed like 500 days allright. Paul Chambers, CNN.
The film's bruised yet clear-eyed romanticism is refreshing to find in a genre that often settles for something less than truthful or passionate.
... it does a nice job of charting the rise and fall of a relationship with heart, soul and a recognition that it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.
We have been trained by Hollywood to react a certain way to a certain kind of movie and 500 Days of Summer seeks to un-train us through shock therapy.
Audience Reviews for 500 Days of Summer
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Is it Joseph Gordon Levitt season for me or what? "Looper", "Premium Rush", "The Dark Knight Rises", and now (500). For the most part, I've been one of the few that has consistently been cautious about the growing fame of Levitt. And for the most part, all of his roles in previous films have been nothing more but adequate on my part. However, in (500), he manages to be effective and convincing largely due to a palpable chemistry with his counterpart: Zooey Deschanel. The two play off each other realistically and are convincing. As the two play "kyootsie-time" each other, the dialogue the banter with each other is both engaging and humorous enough to let the movie's pacing flow along smoothly. And because of these two aspects, from the opening moments to the end of the second act, "(500) Days of Summer" is a wonderful time. But what can you expect if you're gonna spend 500 days with summer? By the time the third act begins, the chemistry between the lead stars no longer evolves in a film that is largely slim on narrative but dependent on character development. Furthermore, the film's pacing begins to chug to a halt and leaving audiences, not particularly bored, but waiting patiently.
Nevertheless, (500) is an entertaining romantic comedy that marinates the audience with a palpable chemistry. Pacing issues, unfortunately, get in the way from this becoming a great romantic comedy. Still, pack up your beach umbrellas, swim suits, and your smores for "(500) Days of Summer"; it's an entertaining time that is surely not to disappoint.
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- Vance: I've been happily married for 30 years. She's the light that guides me home. Yes, it is from one of our cards. No, someone else wrote it. Doesn't make it less true.
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- McKenzie: Love... shit, I don't know. As long as she's cute and she's willing, right? I'm flexible on the cute.
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- Tom: No! Don't pull that with me! This is not how you treat your friend! Kissing in the copy room? Holding hands in IKEA? Shower sex? Come on! Friends my balls!
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- Vance: Misery. Sadness. Loss of Faith. No reason to Live. This is perfect for you.
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- Tom: Do you ever do this, you think back on all the times you've had with someone and you just replay it in your head over and over again and you look for those first signs of trouble?
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- Tom: Look, we don't have to put a label on it. That's fine. I get it. But, you know, I just, I need some consistency.
- Summer Finn: I know.
- Tom: I need to know that you're not gonna wake up in the morning and feel differently.
- Summer Finn: And I can't give you that. Nobody can.
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- (500) Days Of Summer (DE)
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