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This week, we’re watching “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.”

What I liked: Nick (Michael Cera) and Norah (Kat Dennings) make an adorable couple in this movie.  They play off of each other’s witty subtle humor and keep the audience chuckling throughout this mildly funny film.  Norah is friends with Tris, a girl who recently broke Nick’s heart.  Not realizing that this is the same boy, she asks Nick to pretend to be her boyfriend for five minutes to escape Tris’ taunting.  When Norah and Nick realize the other’s connection to Tris, drama ensues.  The plot of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist follows a group of teenagers on a night out in New York City in search of an elusive band called Where’s Fluffy and Norah’s elusive drunk friend, Caroline. 

What I disliked: The movie was exactly what I expected.  The main disappointment for me is that Michael Cera basically plays the same character he played in Arrested Development, Superbad, and Juno.  One wonders if he is capable of playing anything other than an awkward, dorky, and inadvertently funny teenager. 

Would I recommend it?: If you’re a fan of Michael Cera’s other films, I would recommend Nick and Norah because you will probably like this one as well. 

Score: 5 out of 10

- Jessica Locke

What I liked: “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” was at times cute and mildly entertaining. Nick’s ex-girlfriend Tris, played by Alexis Dziena, was very funny, perky, and fun to watch. I thought Tris’ jealousy of Nick trying to move on and her treatment towards her new boyfriend were the funniest aspects of the movie.

What I disliked: In the film’s defense, I think I missed the target audience and that this movie would be better enjoyed by kids in high school or early college years. I felt very unmoved by the romance between Nick and Norah, especially due to an extreme lack of chemistry between them. They looked weird together and scenes of them kissing made me strangely uncomfortable. The dark, busy nightlife of New York City didn’t provide a good backdrop for the blossoming romance, either. I sympathized with Nick’s broken heart but felt that Norah was too frumpy, awkward and argumentative to be believably attractive to soft spoken Nick. I found Norah’s drunken friend, Caroline, to be very annoying and distracting from the plot. Nick’s over-the-top gay band members equally served no purpose other than to lend a real bra to seriously unfeminine Norah. I thought the dual scavenger hunt for drunken Caroline and some silly band across several nightclubs was a stupid, juvenile idea to base the movie around. 

Would I recommend it? I’d recommend this movie if you’re young and relatively inexperienced with relationships. 

Score: 5 out of 10

- Jessica Conrad