Review of Paper Towns (2015) by Lukechristiansc — 25 Jul 2015

"Paper Towns" is an unique romantic comedy, that isn't weepy like Green's other film "The Fault in Our Stars" but it's satisfying to the fans and gives them a look at unrequited love and bromance. After watching John Green's first adaptation "The Fault in Our Stars" I was surprised that it goes around the cliche's, overall the film moves you and takes you on a powerful journey while it does give you great humor and some astonishing star-making performances and Paper Towns gives us that. The film is yet again written by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber ('500 Days of Summer' and 'The Fault in Our Stars').

They know not to mess up the romance formula, but this film does sort of makes mistakes but their good at this genre and they should gives us more John Green adaptations. A teenage nerd Quentin (Nat Wolff) is about to have the night of his life with his childhood crush Margo (Cara Delevingne) the most popular girl in high school it's been a while they talked to or hung out since they were kids. Wants him to help her play mischievous pranks on her friends who had betrayed her. The next day, the mysterious Margo is no where to be found. His buddies Ben (Austin Abrams) Radar (Justice Smith) and brings along Lacey (Halston Sage) and Radar's girlfriend Angela (Jaz Sinclair) are helping Q find Margo. With the help of Margo's cryptic clues she had left behind, Quentin embarks on an obsessive mission to find the girl who he love and has made him feel truly alive. The film is like a John Hughes romantic comedy, like able characters funny humor and a great love story. Director Jake Schreier (Robot and Frank) adds the charm and puts a riveting story on screen with charm and like ability in to it. Nat Wolff does a great job and so does Cara Delevingne, those actors we can do good in the future. The film's problem is that is does get cliche'd at times and the film knows what it wants to be and that is a coming of age drama, it isn't moving but it's earnest and well acted.