Despite the tricky punctuation, (500) Days of Summer might be the most truthful rom-com about the sort of people you're likely to know; not inhabitants of some movie version of Fairyland.
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09/16/09
500 Days of Summer (2009)
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Reviews Counted:195
Fresh:169
Rotten:26
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: A clever, offbeat romantic comedy, 500 Days of Summer is refreshingly honest and utterly charming.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Oct 1, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $32,118,648
Synopsis: Fans of HIGH FIDELITY and ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND will be charmed by this quirky film that sheds a linear plot in favor of a memory-driven look at a failed romance. Joseph... [More]
Starring: Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Clark Gregg, Minka Kelly
Director: Marc Webb
Reviews for 500 Days of Summer
Top CriticA true re-invention of the romantic comedy genre for a male skewed audience, complete with realistic lead characters and hilarious insight.
09/15/09
Top CriticHeartbreak is rarely enjoyable, but in this case, it's very easy company -- as are Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel.
09/13/09
Top CriticCharm effuses from this quirky love story in which fate, coincidence, dreams, expectations and reality are chaotically intertwined.
09/07/09
Top CriticIt offers us the kind of friendship that comes with a brilliant soundtrack, a story with a solid mixture of fantasy and truth, and the bolstering sort of hopefulness that we might, by accident, fall into a version of its world someday.
06/19/09
Top CriticThe film's bruised yet clear-eyed romanticism is refreshing to find in a genre that often settles for something less than truthful or passionate.
01/31/10
... it does a nice job of charting the rise and fall of a relationship with heart, soul and a recognition that it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.
01/10/10
We have been trained by Hollywood to react a certain way to a certain kind of movie and 500 Days of Summer seeks to un-train us through shock therapy.
01/06/10
Abound conventions and the occasional nugget of overwrought wit threaten, but fail, to cripple the leads' revelatory sincerity.
01/04/10
Una irresistible comedia romántica que desafía algunas convenciones del género, gracias a un tratamiento fresco y original, una deliciosa banda sonora y dos protagonistas perfectos.
01/01/10
The two leads are as quirky and likable as the movie itself.
12/24/09
full review at Movies for the Masses
12/10/09
A kind of Woody Allen comedy but without the jokes. Lots of cultural signifiers to make ivy league couples on a date feel at home, but totally lacking in substance.
12/07/09
A near perfect genre defying representation of relationships, infatuation, and getting over the first real love of your life...
12/07/09
The film revels in the hip witticisms that swim mostly inside a writer's head but never come forth in the real world with the timing and execution seen here.
12/06/09
At last, here's a movie that takes the wimpy, tortured, hopelessly-in-love boys from the other movies and tells them to grow up.
11/24/09
This is a story that most people can probably relate to, unless you are one of those lucky people never to have been on the losing end of the game of love.
10/29/09
Le tout est exécuté avec un tel enthousiasme que nous ne pouvons que nous laisser emporter par cette vague on ne peut plus rafraîchissante, et surtout profondément désarmante.
10/12/09
a nicely played but all-too-preciously eccentric romance
09/20/09
500 Days of Summer never quite convinces, despite the charm of the leads. This is wannabe indie, and these two Hollywood names are too 'big' to play beautiful nobodies navigating a heart-wrenching misunderstanding.
09/17/09
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