| Special
Features: |
Outtakes; Deleted Scenes; Middle Management Music Video
by Bishop Allen; Faux Interview with Michael Cera, Kat Dennings
& Eddie Kaye Thomas; A Nick & Norah Puppet Show by Kat Dennings;
Ari Graynor's Video Diary: A Look Behind Nick & Norah; Storyboard
Animations; Photo Gallery; Commentary with Michael Cera,
Kat Dennings, Ari Graynor and Director Peter Sollett; Commentary
with Director Peter Sollett, Authors Rachel Cohn and David
Levithan and Screenwriter Lorene Scafaria.
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| Review:
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A downtown Manhattan road movie tailgating after burb
teen angst, Nick & Nora's Infinite Playlist tracks the bridge
and tunnel weekend crowd's slumming adventures of young
Jersey party animals rambling around the Big Apple, while
itching for a bite of the mystique-laden night life. At
least two reviewers griped that the breezy youthful charm
of this teen club scene outing made them feel really old,
which might not be a good sign. A movie, even if set in
a parallel universe like puberty, should let us in on what
the fuss is all about, a little more than just as mere nosy
viewer eavesdroppers.***
Directed by Peter Sollett (Raising Victor Vargas) and
based on the novel by scribe duo Rachel Cohn and David Levithan,
Nick & Nora finds Juno's Michael Sera once again strumming
his way into romance. He's Nick, a high school student and
lone straight guy jamming with the queercore band, The Jerk
Offs. Nick is also nursing a badly broken heart, after being
dumped by diminutive sexy shrew, Tris (Alexis Dziena).***
Tris has likewise been dumping the growing collection
of sulking CD mixes Nick has been sending her way, in a
thankless bid to heat up the mutual infatuation again, musical
samplings which fall into the hands of way more appreciative
classmate, Nora (Kat Dennings). Nora is billed here as a
homely, insecure loser with a mad crush on Nick. But whether
it's a case of misguided miscasting or just plain dumb ideas,
sorry, Kat is too super-hot to dismissively demean.***
In any case, the two brooding teens end up moping around
town together in Nick's bummer of a boutique yellow Yugo
jalopy that keeps getting mistaken for a taxi, on a full
length feature infinite quest for their favorite elusive
band, Where's Fluffy. While intermittent detours into comic
relief courtesy of Nora's best buddy, underage drunk Caroline
(Ari Graynor) - who retrieves her gum from a public toilet
and keeps on chewing - could have been mercifully left on
the cutting room floor.***
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| Special
Features: |
Outtakes; Deleted Scenes; Middle Management Music Video
by Bishop Allen; Faux Interview with Michael Cera, Kat Dennings
& Eddie Kaye Thomas; A Nick & Norah Puppet Show by Kat Dennings;
Ari Graynor's Video Diary: A Look Behind Nick & Norah; Storyboard
Animations; Photo Gallery; Commentary with Michael Cera,
Kat Dennings, Ari Graynor and Director Peter Sollett; Commentary
with Director Peter Sollett, Authors Rachel Cohn and David
Levithan and Screenwriter Lorene Scafaria.
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