Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Columbia Pictures
Mandate Pictures
Running time: 1:29

This is a very cute movie that very few people bothered to see. I just rented it and very much enjoyed it. Forget New in Town (and if you were sick that day, you probably missed it--it was gone in about a week). I can't speak for He's Just Not That Into You because I've seen very positive and very negative reviews. There's nothing particularly meaningful about Nick & Norah's. I liked it very much. It focuses on two very likable characters: Nick, played by Michael Cera, the new voice of Generation Y; and Norah, played by previously unknown Kat Dennings. (She was in 40-Year-Old Virgin. I think I know which character she played. Anyway.) Nick and Norah are both starring members of the Bridge and Tunnel crowd--people who work or play in Manhattan but cannot afford to live there so must leave the island to go home. I read the movie was compared to American Graffiti because (1) it has a soundtrack for a generation; and (2) because the movie opens at nightfall (actually in the afternoon in the case of Nick & Norah's) and ends at sunrise. I don't consider the comparison fair to either film. American Graffiti (one of George Lucas' first films) is set in a small California town and is really the last night of the characters' childhoods that followed their high school graduation. We learn what happened to each character with story lines that flash on the screen at the end, making the film quite serious. Nick & Norah's proudly and obviously is set in Manhattan (and briefly in Brooklyn) and chronicles an above-average, rather exciting high school Friday night. There's nothing profound about it.

Rising starlet Alexis Dziena plays Nick's ex-girlfriend.

Where did Sony find that Yugo?