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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 161
Fresh: 116
Rotten:45
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Consensus: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist combines a pair of charming leads, the classic New York backdrop, and a sweet soundtrack.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Oct 3, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $31,487,293
Synopsis: Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist is a comedy about two people thrust together for one hilarious, sleepless night of adventure in a world of mix tapes, late-night living, and, live, loud music. ... [More]
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Reviews for Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
A near perfection romance comedy that will appeal to any and all audiences
02/09/09
With a great soundtrack and a plot that requires absolutely nothing of the audience, it's certainly Friday night fodder but could have been so much better.
02/05/09
Nick & Norah is a teen comedy that adults can enjoy. The screenplay, by Lorene Scafaria, manages to be smart and sophisticated, the comedy dry and understated.
02/05/09
The chief running gag, about as funny as a weeping sore, concerns a piece of chewing gum.
02/05/09
Although Nick & Norah is episodic and uneven, it does have considerable charm.
02/05/09
Filled with likeable characters, smart dialogue and cool indie music, it's good natured, hilarious and an outstanding romantic comedy that makes you wish you could be there.
01/31/09
All is forgiven in a wild money shot defining moment, when passion blooms in stereo off camera, as a studio hideaway's flashing voice level meters dance around, in synch with sex. A match ultimately made in digital heaven.
01/31/09
They pull off the blend of wide-eyed earnestness and sarcasm, but it’s unlikely teens or adults will relate to the 2D characters.
01/30/09
The music’s great, if predictable, and the talented young cast give it their all. We just wish that Cera would try something new.
01/30/09
Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist takes everything you loved in three decades of teenage romance and twists it into something unrecognisably desperate and exploitative.
01/30/09
Could have been Ferris Bueller's Night Out but it's not even close.
01/30/09
This music-powered hipster romance is as simple and undemanding as a three-chord pop song. It’s as corny as rhyming “moon” with “June”.
01/30/09
So-so comedy.
01/30/09
We allow the movie its fantasy of first love, if not its pretence of indie credibility.
01/30/09
It’s all very sweet and there’s no mistaking how the film’s going to end. But it’s also smart, funny and further proof of Michael Cera’s comic talent.
01/30/09
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist has charm and warmth in abundance. It'll find a home with its intended teen crowd and may hook in viewers willing to take a nostalgic look back at adolescence.
01/30/09
It’s a rewarding love’n’pub crawl, dispensing sharp lines (“I love you so much it’s retarded.”) yet allowing a gentle love story to unfold between stops in the search for the mystery band. Play this one again…
01/30/09
Nick & Norah’s tries to be the date movie for kids in skinny jeans and Cons. Thing is, it’s too safe for their cynicism and while Cera and Dennings are pitch-perfect, even at 90 minutes it feels like a stretch.
01/30/09
It’s up there with some of the best teen movies of the 80s as pure pleasure that will make you feel 17 again. Brilliantly uplifting and heart warming stuff.
01/30/09
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