Paper Towns (2015)

So much average

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Blistering performances.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

It's nice to look at but ultimately leaves a bland aftertaste. I'm not the biggest fan of young adult romance films, and it seems to be a popular trend as of late...so here we have another one. Quentin has been in love with Margo since they were young kids cycling around the neighbourhood. They grew apart, she recruits him for a prank-filled night, she leaves and it's up to Quentin to follow the breadcrumbs that leads to her heart. Such romance. Such cuteness. Such niceness. It's a nice story surrounded by nice, sprinkled with additional nice and wrapped up in nice paper. That's my biggest problem. It's sweet, tender and occasionally humorous but the formulaic and one-dimensional approach prevents the narrative from actually going anywhere. Heck, even that one emotional scene towards the end felt happy. I've seen animations more depressing and heartfelt than this. Don't get me wrong, it's a lovely story about love, friendship and testing your limitations. Delevingne and Wolff are well matched and have good chemistry. I found Quentin's college friends utterly relatable, mostly because I was that guy in school who would actually recite the Pokémon theme tune (don't deny, you know you love it). Surprisingly the cinematography hit me, it was high quality for this genre! Every shot looked the part so was pleasantly surprised. The cryptic breadcrumb trail was interesting and was easily the best part of the film. It's just unfortunate that the third act's road trip loses that well earned intrigue. The characters were bland, the story was formulaic and it all just felt too...nice. Nothing in the screenplay allows the characters to feel! It's all smiles, laughs and one tear (I counted one!!). The relationships seemed forced and, can't believe I'm saying this, Delevingne needed more screen time. She was enigmatic and elusive. In the end, Paper Towns is the kind of film you would watch if you are feeling down. It's nice with good performances but doesn't further itself to be better. Standard formula.

After 'Fault in our Stars' did well as a film you can't blame Hollywood I guess for wanting to raid John Green's back catalogue for another book to turn into a film.Problem is the creative team are working on much less solid ground with this material than before.Paper thin plot, paper thin characters, and not great acting to boot make this film fairly forgettable from start to finish.But it's bright, it's got teen stars in, and lots of people will see it because they liked the book.However most will come out saying it isn't any good.

What do you get if you combine "Fanboys" with "Kieth".You get this piece of crap. The man who wrote the book this movie is based upon, have taken key story lines from other stories, that for some reason made it to the silver screen. All characters comes off as over-hyped cliche's. They authors idea of how teenagers behave is ludicrous and frankly just made me laugh. Then cringe. Besides the plot holes and random behavior, the casting decided to cast a lead woman that can't act. Not to mention how unlikable they all are as characters. This film could not end soon enough, and the clues should have just led them away from the screen and into oblivion so i never have to see them again.

Paper Towns(2015) Starring: Cara Delevingne, Nat Wolff, Halston Sage, Austin Abrams, Justice Smith, Meg Crosbie, Caitlin Carver, Cara Buono, Griffin Freeman, RJ Shearer, Josiah Cerio, Jim Coleman, Sophia Grillo, Bailey Nemirow, Susan Macke Miller, Jay Duplass, Drew Matthews, Hannah Alligood, Robert Crayton, and Tom Hillmann Directed By: Jake Schreier Review GET LOST. GET FOUND. This movie was something I wanted to see, I like John Green's work on YA novels, cause his usually doesn't feel like a rip-off of Battle Royale. He even writes love stories that more ingenious and heartfelt then Nicholas Sparks, whose work I use to be quite fond of(The Notebook, Safe Haven, A walk to Remember, The Lucky One) but aside from those four I don't much like his work anymore. Granted Paper Towns isn't a love story so much but then this most I would say most confusing coming age of story or maybe I just need to watch it again, and that's whats great about it. Some people might get the movie and understand what it's about first thing and if you're one of those people then great hope you at least enjoyed this movie. To me I went in knowing that it indeed was a coming of age story(I believe most people hate those) but I don't know this movie at the very least didn't make feel anything other than confused. I'm giving Paper Towns a three out of five.