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...Michael Cera has been that kid, first in “Arrested Development,” next in “Superbad,” and then in “Juno.” In his latest movie, “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist,” Cera gives hope to the socially inept as he reprises his well-established role as the charmingly goofy, pubescent boy who somehow manages to win a girl’s affection. Where that character ends and his own personality begins, however, is unclear. In a round table...
...What really matters is what you like, not what you are like,” John Cusack says in “High Fidelity.” This advice could be the mantra of the new movie “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist,” in which the two eponymous star-crossed lovers are united by their worship of indie music—in particular the fictional group Where’s Fluffy. But for all its pretensions to understanding indie music fans, the movie comes across as contrived and unemotional. Nick, played...
Musical elitism is shoved out the door in favor of tunes that could probably find a home in just about anyone’s playlist. The hodgepodge of sounds—ranging from techno to hip-hop to rock—works in tandem with the band’s overarching theme...
...received a vision of what life has in store for him, and it worries him sick. He seems prematurely 40, so that any teen trauma has the impact of a midlife crisis or some awful dream endlessly repeating itself. As Nick O'Leary in Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, he's the theoretically cool bass player in a band playing a Manhattan club. Except that the band is called the Jerk Offs, the other two members are gay, their audience includes blas members of Nick's New Jersey high school, and one of them is Tris (Alexis Dziena), the girl...
...lets you know what your friends are listening to. Like Facebook, MySpace has a news feed, which figures out which of your friends interests you most and communicates their doings to you. So, if my musician brother Seth Augustus (a stage name) adds an interesting tune to his playlist, my news feed will report that. I can even subscribe to his playlists...