Review of Paper Heart (2009) by Stephanie K — 07 Dec 2009

Love is so many things to different people. Its can be ecstacy and pain, all in one. The balance is difficult to maintain but the reason why you feel as great as you do and as hurt as you do is because you care deeply about the person (or persons) you are attached to.

With some relationships, you want things to work out and they do. With others, you want them to work out and they fall apart.

"Paper Heart" is the latter. It's a movie with good intentions, starts well enough, shows you its good side, its fun attributes, plays cute, then takes a bad turn, goes for over-cute, gets pretentious and falls apart.

Charlyne Yi, the strange stoner girl from "Knocked Up" who sounds like a cross between a dying goat and a mentally-disabled Sandra Bullock reprises her role as a strange girl who sounds like a cross between a dying goat and a mentally-disabled Sandra Bullock.

I really don't know what Yi's appeal is besides being that girl from "Knocked Up" who wasn't even remotely funny but, hell, everyone needs work.

For some reason, she's been hired by director "Nicholas Jasenovec" played by Jake M. Johnson. With everyone else playing themselves in this flick, you would think that Johnson would just use his real name but he doesn't and so we have "Nicholas Jasenovec".

The assignment is that Nick and Yi drive cross-country interviewing people about their experiences with love. Along the way, they conveniently happen to meet Michael Cera who, for some reason, not only finds Yi interesting.