This movie about high school seniors who look and live like college seniors (no parent is mentioned, let alone seen, while seven teens spend the entire night cruising around New York City) has enough funny moments and charm to carry its light weight. The story concerns Nick (Michael Cera) and Norah (Kat Dennings) who accidentally fall in together one night while trying to track down the location of the performance of stealth band “Where’s Fluffy”. Nick is hung up on his ex-girlfriend Tris, while Norah is lonely and in search of love. It is more than a bit odd that Nick, a geeky Yugo-driving kid who plays bass in the otherwise gay band “The Jerk Offs” becomes the unattainable object of Norah’s affection, as Norah is intelligent, cool, hot, and rich (in roughly equal proportions). She is out of his league, not the other way around, so it took me a while to adjust to the movie’s premise which is that she is fighting for his attention. So too, even more oddly, is his hot ex. This rendered, for me at least, the story less interesting than the color and gags that decorate Nick and Norah’s night-long journey for Fluffy and each other.
I was contemplating seeing this, maybe it’s a wait for video kind of deal? I heard that it drew comparisons to Juno, is that accurate?