‘500 Days of Summer’ Review
Posted in Featured | Reviews on Thursday, January 7th, 2010 by Veronica R. | Comments
“Darling…I don’t know how to tell you this but, there’s a Chinese family in our restroom.”
I finally caught ‘500 Days of Summer’ on DVD after much urging from my friends. When I originally saw the trailer to this film, I had to real desire to watch it because I put it into the ‘just another romantic comedy’ category. I was wrong. Dead Wrong.
This quirky story starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tom who falls madly in love with Summer( Zooey Deschanel) a new assistant working in his office. After bonding over their love of The Smiths, Tom soon finds out that Summer isn’t interested in a relationship. She’s more of an independent ‘friends with benefits’ type and he can either take it or leave it. Tom decides to take it hoping that as soon as she sees how compatible they are, her defenses will drop and they will become a match made in heaven. The story jets back and forth between the present, his heartbreak and suffering because she’s left him, and the past, how their wonderful ‘friend-lationship’ started and eventually crumbled. There’s a deep-voiced narrator that comes in at certain points in the film that is reminiscent of the film ‘Amelie’
The best part about this film is that it was modern and realistic. We’ve all been through it at least once in our lives. The one guy or girl we hung all our delusional hopes on only to soon find out it’s not going to work. The dialogue is hilarious and full of pop culture references and there’s even a dance number seamlessly worked into the film to Hall and Oates ‘You Make my Dreams Come True’. Mark Webb did a great job directing this film and bringing forth all the confusing factors that go into dating. Joseph Gordon-Levitt does a a great job portraying a love-sick Tom and Chloe Moretz does a hilarious job playing his kid sister who provides him with constant relationship counseling.
I’m happy I finally got a chance to watch this film. It’s something I would watch again and I highly recommend you rent and watch it if you didn’t catch it in theaters. It’s unexpectedly different and that’s what makes it special in my book. I give it a 4 out of 5.
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500 days of summer, jospeh gordon-levitt, mark webb, zooey deschanel
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