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After randomly finding the movie on Jason Santa Maria’s weblog I decided to check the movie out. I found the official website and watched the trailers for the first time, then watched them again over at the Apple trailers section. Now that info is out of the way, on to my thoughts.

First of all, after watching the trailer with only film and songs(nobody talked) I instantly wanted to see the film. I loved how the songs and cinematography went together perfectly. I wanted to see it as soon as possible. It’s quite odd how a trailer would have that effect on you. That was on Thursday night, and I wasn’t able to see it until Friday. It is only playing at two theatres in San Diego because it’s one of those smaller indie like films. To begin, Zach Braff (most known from Scrubs) wrote and directed and acted as the lead character in this film. Just on that aspect, he’s freaking awesome. He also acted along side Natalie Portman who played quite well.

The movie was a comedy, drama, and also one of those love story’s, yet it all mashed perfectly well into something new. Something that I don’t know what genre box to jam it into. As you can see, I really enjoyed the whole movie. The story was great, the acting was good, and I was most pleased with the filming and directing or editing. This movie was filled with alot of songs that I have been listening to for awhile and it was awesome to see them fit into a major film so precisely. I even want to buy the soundtrack it was so good. As for the comedy aspect, it’s not one of those laugh all through the movie flicks, it’s more like the every so often good laugh kinda flick that you feel good about after watching.

I don’t want to spoil anything, I would just really recommend watching it as soon as possible. It’s up in the top 5 for movies this summer. Wait, I’ve only watched less than 5 at the box office, so it’s in the top 3. I’ve noticed after looking at the imdb reviews that alot of people didn’t like it. Well I did. So watch it yourself and comment here if you like it or not!

My Rating: 10 of 10 - yep I liked it that much, I even want to buy it!
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