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Reviews Counted:184
Fresh:160
Rotten:24
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: A clever, offbeat romantic comedy, 500 Days of Summer is refreshingly honest and utterly charming.
Theatrical Release:02-09-2009
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
Too timid to be truly cynical about love and too eager for box-office success to try to be a really new kind of romantic comedy, the film fails the ultimate romantic-comedy test: not only does it lack enough laughs, but you’re never emotionally involved.
Highly recommended either to enjoy as a couple or wallow in alone.
Director Marc Webb's debut feature is as far from a Sandra Bullock or Hugh Grant vehicle as you can imagine. What better reason to go see it? From start to end his subtle movie feather-teases your funny spots: it amazes, refreshes and it delights.
Perfectly played, simultaneously serious and light, endlessly inventive, this is a strong contender for the most original date movie of the year. (Terrific) stuff.
Top CriticIf it just misses being this generation’s ‘Annie Hall’, it’s still deliciously refreshing, sweet and fizzy. A sherbet dip of a movie.
Top CriticA new take on romantic comedy that doesn't quite live up to its ambitions.
Top CriticIt is hardly the freshest romantic comedy of the past 20 years. Taking the best bits from other movies and rearranging them in a non-linear sequence does not make for an original film.
Top CriticDespite clever moments and Hornbyesque touches of melancholy, it's let down by sitcom cliches, and by being weirdly incurious about the inner life of its female lead.
Top CriticAn ideal version of this film would be painful and playful, and a good deal less cluttered. But the one we get certainly has delightful moments. After any exposure to this year’s unfailingly smelly mainstream romcoms, it’s a breeze.
Top Critic(500) Days of Summer is a great film – a step in genre and gender development that will be referenced for years to come. And aside from all that, it’s really good fun.
An endorphin rush of a movie, which even in its saddest moments is uplifting funny.
A clever, refreshing, non-formulaic antidote to your average, bog-standard Hollywood romcom.
Unabashedly indie heartstring-yanker 500 Days of Summer- while mercifully rejecting the rom-com template - is less than the sum of its well-played parts.
A playful, witty, disordered telling of a fractured romance. Bringing fresh zing to a genre prone to predictability, Webb crafts a (not-in-) love story about feeling bad that’s infectiously good.
There is more cinematic joy in five minutes of (500) Days of Summer than there is in a packed weekend of mainstream romance movies.
A sharp spin on the usual rom-com formulae, this is funny, sensitive and challenges the genre’s gender conventions.
By a wide margin the outstanding romantic comedy of 2009.
An energetic, enjoyable affair with plenty to say about unrequited love.
A modern romance for grown-ups... a sweet-natured, funny, deeply-romantic tale that brims with energy and is blessed with top-notch performances.
(500) Days of Summer is an above average rom-com that dares to venture towards an appalling conclusion.
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