A quick review
Feb. 19th, 2009 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroseroseThe Opposite of Sex
: I really liked this movie. Stylistically, it reminded me a bit of Juno: Take a fairly pedestrian plot premise, write it out like the characters are real people instead of sitcom sterotypes, toss in a healthy dollop of snark, and stir. Quality-wise, I wouldn't quite put it on that level - the pace drags in a few places, and a couple of the characters never quite break out of their cardboard-cutout molds - but if you like movies about relationships between real, imperfect people (or just like snarky writing) I highly recommend it. A-
: I really liked this movie. Stylistically, it reminded me a bit of Juno: Take a fairly pedestrian plot premise, write it out like the characters are real people instead of sitcom sterotypes, toss in a healthy dollop of snark, and stir. Quality-wise, I wouldn't quite put it on that level - the pace drags in a few places, and a couple of the characters never quite break out of their cardboard-cutout molds - but if you like movies about relationships between real, imperfect people (or just like snarky writing) I highly recommend it. A-
