Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
PG-13 | 03 October 2008 (USA)
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Nick cannot stop obsessing over his ex-girlfriend, Tris, until Tris' friend Norah suddenly shows interest in him at a club. Thus begins an odd night filled with ups and downs as the two keep running into Tris and her new boyfriend while searching for Norah's drunken friend, Caroline, with help from Nick's band mates. As the night winds down, the two have to figure out what they want from each other.

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ThiefHott

Too much of everything

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Noutions

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

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FirstWitch

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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Mathilde the Guild

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

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nextpaige

I found that Norah's character development was wonderful. It was interesting and not one I've seen in a while. Nick's character was mostly good as well but not anything special. And trust me, I love Michael Cera. I found the music was interesting and I will definitely be adding the songs to my playlist. With all that aside, I found the story was rather shallow. There was some unhealthy symmetry between Norah and Nick that was basically mirrored the other. This was the absolutely paralleled stories of Norah and Nick getting over previous lovers that was clearly not right for them. It was the same story for both! It felt a bit obvious and didn't work as I believe the writers intended.Overall, I did enjoy the film and would watch others like it. But as with all things, there are many places it could be improved.

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Jakemcclake

I have bought the DVD and watched this at least 25 times, since I first saw it on cable last fall. I found this to be a tremendous feel good movie. I also listen to the music quite often, and really liked "Last Words" by the Real Tuesday Weld and Ottoman by Vampire Weekend. There are some other songs that are good in the movie, and they fit the mood of the movie, with the music. I saw many episodes of "Two Broke Girls", and I have seen the "Thor" movies and used to wonder why Cat Dennings is famous. I now know why she is famous. She is adorable in this movie. Her smile absolutely rocks the screen. When you meet her character Norah Silverberg, you quickly see she is about loyalty and self sacrifice. Norah is far from the wise cracking woman Cat plays on Two Broke Girls. When you get to know Norah, it makes a person want her to come out on top, somehow. Nick is played by Michael Cera who attempts to add some comedy to the movie. Then there is Ari Gaynor playing Caroline. She represents a lot of the comedy in the movie and she delivers all the way through the movie. Some people reviewing this have said, Ari steals the show, but, there are some gross things that take place with her also. The movie also features Nick's gay friends Dev and Thom (Rafi Gavron and Arron Woo) who ironically show far more sense about girls and women than Nick does. Best of all is where the movie goes with Tris who is played very well by Alexis Dziena. I don't often comment on acting, but Alexis can express more with the look on her face than most actresses can. There is also a piece of gum in the movie, that makes it through from early in the movie to the end. All and All This movie is a Feel Good Experience. .

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Diana Rosalind Trimble

How can you make a movie with a title like Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, with a "meet cute" plot-line sparked by painstakingly decorated, home-made, lovelorn mix CDS being collected by a different girl than they were meant for and then...not have a single memorable tune in the soundtrack? Boy, the music director on this film really missed a great opportunity there. Nick's Cure ring-tone, all five seconds of it, was the catchiest hook in the entire film.Check out the track listing on the soundtrack if you don't believe me. There was no scene in which music was well-matched with the mood so as to build emotions, and no great songs chosen, so all you ever hear, in cars, in clubs, is just a few blasts of innocuous music here and there. But nothing memorable. I blame the writers as well as the music director for not having created a believable underground music scene or scene-goers at all.Another scene that demonstrated writers' Cohn & Levithan's ignorance of what it is to love music or be a musician was the totally absurd scene in the recording studio! Firstly, we'll just overlook the fact that the owner of Electric Lady (or any other pro recording studio) is not going to let his teenage daughter bring people over there on random social visits when the studio's not in use at night (and why isn't in use BTW?), and we'll even be so kind as to further overlook how rather unlikely it is that the daughter of a studio boss would necessarily have recording engineering skills herself, in fact we will even be extra-generous and overlook the impossibility of Nick dating someone who had a friend whose Dad owned Electric Lady without said item of teen gossip ever having reached his ears; yes, we'll swallow all that and just skip straight to the scene where she offers to record something, even letting him play a priceless Strat that is just lying around(?). OK, so swallowing all that too; there they are, all set up, got sound in the cans, guitar is plugged in, all Mic-ed up. Yeah! Maybe we are finally going to get to hear an actual song maybe? Nope, denied! For inexplicably, mere seconds after hitting record, Norah suddenly decides this is the ideal moment to leave the control booth, go in the live room, discuss Judaism briefly, and then get down on the sofa. Leaving tape rolling. Oh yeah, with the live Mic right next to the sofa. I have rarely seen a more improbably twisted set-up for a lame comedic moment (moment being camera panning from them making out on couch to the peak meters going red in the control room).Can I tell you why this scene stank to high heaven for anyone involved in music? Well, I am a singer-songwriter myself, and no matter how much I liked a guy, if he's invited me to an after-hours recording session at one of the best studios in the world, and we've set things up and I'm just about to play my song, I am going to be super annoyed if he suddenly emerges from the control room and starts getting talkie then sexual, at the top of my first take! What? Ridiculous!Any musician is gonna be (yeah even a guy would be) taken aback and say: "Um, excuse me, aren't we rolling tape? What are you doing out here? Is something wrong?" It is not romantic for her to join him in the live room just then, but doesn't make any sense at all! In no way is it credible that any musician, including Nick, would just take it in stride and similarly have amnesia about the fact he was supposed to be recording something. I kept waiting for him to say: "Um, do you mind if we lay down the track before we, uh, lay down ourselves? Or at least stop recording?" Then it might actually have been not only a funny scene, but closer to the way people respond to situations in real-ish life. (That cheezy pun, by the way, is a hilarious gem of wit compared to the jokes in the script.)The only good thing about this film was the giddy performance of Ari Graynor as Caroline. The whole movie should have been about her drunken night of misadventures!

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Mathias Nobis

Hey, so first of all I'd like to say that I was never a big Cera fan. First movie I saw him in was Superbad. Kind of liked that movie but I didn't like the character he was playing. After a few movies ( Juno, Scott Pilgrim and Youth in Revolt) I started to see that he's not acting. He is that shy, nerdy kind of man who looks like a sixteen year old and I like it and from that moment on him. Now, about this movie. I know I am kind of late but hey I live in Austria. We get movies like a 100 years later And I don't understand why people say they didn't like it. It's funny, simple and it has everything you need to feel good after. You have love, the character you can hate, the one you can love, and the music. I mean, it wasn't my time, but these songs are good. So, I recommend you watch it and like it. Don't try to interpret to much in such a movie. I give it an 8 out of 10 just because I watched it and did't regret the 90 minutes I spent. I liked it, and you will too.

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