How sweet—another quirky hipster feature in which the girl with a sexual history is villanized, and the one without is the Ultimate Perfection because she has met the stringent intellectual standard of not listening to Top 40. How many of these do we need?

Great acting, fantastic music, and very fun idea. But with the exception of the Jerk Offs and possibly the drunk friend, ultimately forgettable. Of course, I’m not a teen. My teenage daughter rated it 3 out of 5 stars. I give it 2 1/2.

i adore this film. i love the book too. they are both just awesome. i just love the feeling of the movie. it makes me happy.

Originally I wrote this movie off because I really didn’t like the book very much, but I’d heard so many good things about it, I just had to give it a shot. About halfway through, though, I remembered that I didn’t like it mostly because of the narration, not the story itself, which I thought was rather interesting. So seeing the movie was one of the rare times that I thought the film was better than the book. The romance is sweet and sentimental, with a few interesting twists and turns, and that’s the most important part: you don’t just have to get invested in the characters, you have to buy the romance. And Michael Cera and Kat Dennings, aided by the script and the direction, pull it off. The story unfolds in a fun little ride, and the supporting performances – particularly from the “boys in the van” – were surprisingly good. I liked it, despite my better judgment, and despite the fact that I’m slightly too old for it.