Review of The Spectacular Now (2013) by Acclamation — 05 Nov 2017
High school, coming-of-age, done ok.
This film goes a little more beyond the male "player" that gets his heart broken, and decides to **** another girl to create jealously with the girl he really loves.
There's a back history which gets shown, but it's too little, too late. It's a slow, coming-of-age story, not really a love-story.
There is also a gratuitous, anti-drinking element throughout the whole film, which is distracting.
There was one terrible moment, which reminded me that this movie wasn't very good. . . There was a girl that has her first drink, grimaces, says that it tastes horrible, and then takes a second swig, and carries on a conversation as if she is drinking water.
The acting is pretty good. Teller is a character actor, which was definitely needed for this screenplay. He almost pulled it off, but he just doesn't have the looks to pull of it off for the character that this film was written for. Woodley is fine, because her role needs an ugly, nice girl.
Odenkirk worked, despite his fame at this point.
This review of The Spectacular Now (2013) was written by Acclamation on 05 Nov 2017.
The Spectacular Now has generally received positive reviews.
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