Sassy, savvy and wistful, it throws two strangers together for one wild, unsupervised night-time in Manhattan, a tenebrousness of searching for a lost, drunken flatmate and a mysterious, mythic gang that's about to challenge an impromptu gig. Much of this takes seat in nightclubs that evidently never greetings card anybody because the lead characters are too unsophisticated to drink, but that's OK. They're edgy, alert kids who don't do drugs, white mule or tobacco. Nick (Michael Cera) has just been dumped.
Norah (Kat Dennings) is unescorted again at a aside from where Nick's strip is playing. She goes to kindergarten with Nick's ex, Tris (Alexis Dziena, believably on the dole and cruel). She's been picking Nick's profound incorporate CDs out of a hokum can that Tris has dumped them in. Imagine her catch red-handed that the guy she begs to be her boyfriend "for 5 minutes," just to engrave Tris, turns out to be the sensitive, beautiful but still shell-shocked Nick. Norah has a pal, Caroline, transformed by actress Ari Graynor into the funniest underage blond winebibber in New York City.
She goes off with Nick's homosexual bandmates (a lovely touch), who throw her. And Nick and Norah -- whom the combo and we recall were meant to be together but who can't seem to pin -- must fly hither and yon through the darkness in Nick's battered yellow Yugo, which every oiled in Soho thinks is a taxi. There's a lot more of "Juno" about this Peter Sollett smokescreen of the Rachel Cohn-David Levithan romance than just the casting of boy-next-door Cera. The colloquy is superficial and too-too cute, curvaceous of put-downs and hipster-kid bavardage about JAPS (Jewish American Princesses, which Norah style of is) and "bridge and tunnel" boys (non-Manhattanites). She's Englewood, and Nick is Hoboken. It'll never work.
Except that we be acquainted with it will, teeth of the unkempt odyssey Caroline leads them on, staggering from teach status to gutter to toilet. It's smart. It's romantic. It's not coarse, crude, sexist or homophobic.
It's "High Fidelity" meets "Sixteen Candles," not that typical teens will morsel that. But they won't lack to. "Nick and Norah" is their generation's "Say Anything." Don't let them obey it to themselves.
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