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That rare teen comedy where the kids aren't gorgeous, the hero isn't heroic and the object of desire has a lot of reasons why she isn't necessarily desirable.
The result is a small, delicate comedy that depends on a continuity of tone that it pulls off. Oliver may not live happily ever after; but he manages to live happily enough here, and that's just fine.
An exercise in briny Welsh Weltzschmerz that tracks the inner and outer worlds of a confused teenage boy.
"Submarine'' has its own specific miseries and darkly funny vibe. It makes quirkiness briefly seem like a good thing again.
For an unreliable narrator, Oliver's story is reliably entertaining.
Ayoade owes a debt to Wes Anderson, but the parents here are so beautifully written, and Hawkins and Taylor particularize them so well, that the movie manages to hold its own.
Though the subject matter is nothing new, every aspect of the film thrums with quality.
I look forward to more from director Richard Ayoade.
It's an intriguing low-key film that makes you think Holden Caulfield.
A cool, well-directed, if somewhat sterile and self-consciously quirky affair about teen awkwardness, virginity, infidelity and dead-end marriages.
Submarine successfully combines the quirky and the sweet, in this representation of adolescence in all of its messy, overdramatic, and bumbling glory.
Writer/director Richard Ayoade, who has directed some music videos, displays a hand behind the camera that is not only sure but also capable of unique feeling and wit.
All of this makes it sound as if Ayoade is trying much too hard but the gentleness of his touch succeeds in keeping pretentiousness safely out of the picture.
See it and let Oliver Tate remind you of the teenager you once were, or knew.
It just hits an eccentric, wry gorgeous note.
A uniquely strange, yet totally accessible comic sensibility, fused by a brilliant script to a brace of pitch-perfect performances seals the deal.
An idiosyncratic tone, one that is both funny and affecting, is far easier to sparingly strike than it is too maintain for the length of a feature. To his not inconsiderable credit, Richard Ayoade keeps a steady, if stylised, hand all the way through.
A quirky and stylistically idiosyncratic tale of an angst ridden teenager trying to win the heart of a girl and save his parents' marriage. With everyone in deadpan mode its funny but emotionally uninspiring.
There have been any number of movies about the problems faced by teenagers when they fall in and out of love, but the team behind Submarine seem to have got it all just right.
It's too concerned with style to leave a lasting impression, yet it's also warming and witty enough to pass by without doing any harm.
Mining similar narrative and stylistic territory to Wes Anderson, this weird and wonderful comedy drama still feels brilliantly unique.
Ayoade doesn't ape [Wes] Anderson, but he achieves similar magic, delivering a sad, funny little film that takes no shame in its visual influences.
The story finds its emotional arc at the very end, but getting there is sometimes a tedious affair
Adapted from Joe Dunthorne's novel, the strength of the film is its unique slant and quirky tone
Maybe if you haven't seen so many films like this already then you'll get something out of it.
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