Review of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) by 5929 — 08 Sep 2015
"Me and Earl..." is an earnest effort, and an admirable one, but it's never as witty or subversive as it thinks it is, coming across more as a self-conscious and uneven effort to mesh the populist appeal of "The Fault in Our Stars" with the quirky sensibilities of "Juno" rather than something truly unique.
As a result, it can never find the right line between comedy and pathos and cannot handle either with particular consistency or efficacy. Some of it is funny and some of it is moving. Most of it is too uneven to truly be either.
There is too much promise to write this off completely - the acting is very, very good and the finale is handled with such incredible delicacy and grace you can scarcely believe it's from the same film.
But all in all it's a muddled affair that cannot reconcile its eccentricities with its emotions.
This review of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) was written by 5929 on 08 Sep 2015.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl has generally received very positive reviews.
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