Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist is an indie rom-com lifted above its station by its charismatic leads, Michael Cera and Kat Dennings.The story is largely predictable: boy’s been dumped, girl is mostly single, friends push them together at a gig but can they escape their baggage and find each other? What do you think?!?! But there is a charm, a sweetness (without being saccharine) to it all that makes this almost impossible to resist.
Indeed Dennings could charm birds from trees, while Cera is so innocent and good-natured (without being naïve) that he must be an angel. In fact as worldy-wise, nerdy geeks go, Cera is the MAN.
The New York locations are appropriately offbeat, and the direction by Peter Sollett of Raising Victor Vargas fame is spot on.
Score: 8
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