{"id":18342,"date":"2012-08-29T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T14:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=18342"},"modified":"2015-06-04T09:48:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T00:18:23","slug":"movie-review-500-days-of-summer-mini-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2012\/08\/29\/movie-review-500-days-of-summer-mini-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review – (500) Days Of Summer (Mini Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Director :<\/strong> Marc Webb
\nYear Of Release :<\/strong> 2009
\nPrincipal Cast :<\/strong> Joseph Gordon-Lovitt, Zooey Deschanel, Geoffrey Arend, Chloe Grace Moretz, Matthew Gray Gubler, Glark Gregg, Patricia Belcher, Rachel Boston, Minka Kelly, Maile Flanagan.
\nApprox Running Time :<\/strong> 120 Minutes
\nSynopsis:<\/strong> A greeting card writer falls in love with his bosses beautiful young assistant, and they spend time getting to know each other – but are his feelings for her reciprocated?
\nWhat we think :<\/strong> Terrific romantic dramadey with touching, elegant scripting and truly delightful, honest performances from both JoGo and Deschanel, 500 Days Of Summer manages to transcend the rom-com cliches and cliched Hollywood crap and actually be a film that can be watched by both men and women with equal enjoyment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Just Quickly<\/span><\/h1>\n

Romantic comedies aren\u2019t usually my cup of tea, as long time readers of this site will attest to. I say usually, because there\u2019s a couple (Notting Hill<\/em>) here and there that aren\u2019t too bad, but generally, if it\u2019s soppy romance I tend to avoid it where possible \u2013 I leave watching those cinematic turds up to my wife, whose tolerance for crap seems higher than mine. 500 Days Of Summer<\/em> isn\u2019t a romantic comedy; the tag line for the film, which is incredibly accurate, states from the outset that \u201cthis isn\u2019t a love story, it\u2019s a story about love\u201d, which is to say that you\u2019d better gosh darn be prepared for a film which isn\u2019t all mushy and soppy. Lead cast members Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschenel hold this film together \u2013 he\u2019s a greeting card writer dreaming of becoming an architect, while she\u2019s the bosses assistant and a free spirited girl who doesn\u2019t want to be tied down, so when they become friends, and that friendship progresses to the point at which he\u2019s starting to think there\u2019s more to it all, she pulls the plug (this isn\u2019t a spoiler \u2013 it happens pretty much in the first three minutes!) and sends him into a tailspin. From there, the film flits back and forth between days (established by a numerical title card before each scene) of their relationship, telling their story in a non-linear fashion.<\/p>\n

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The Result<\/span><\/h1>\n

If you were to try summing up 500 Days Of Summer<\/em> in a single word, that word would be \u201cquirky\u201d. The script, from Scott Neustedter and Michael Weber, is filled with wonderful dialogues and humorous observational comedy, as well as the biting satire which is male\/female relationship. Marc Webb directs this film with a sense of reassuring whimsy, the solid, even-handed approach to the source material which prevents it descending into farce \u2013 for some reason I kept thinking of Little Miss Sunshine<\/em> whilst watching this film, as if the magical qualities of that film were somehow resurfacing here. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is excellent as the love-struck dude, and Zoey Deschanel is perfectly unattainable as the.. er, unattainable Summer; they have a genuine chemistry on-screen that\u2019s hard to fake. 500 Days Of Summer<\/em> is a thoroughly engaging, perfectly endearing, sublimely romantic (kinda) film for which there\u2019s no set demographic for: both young and older viewers will find plenty to appreciate in this one. Thoroughly recommended.<\/p>\n

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What Others Are Saying about 500 Days Of Summer:<\/h1>\n

Aiden at Cut The Crap<\/em> loved it: “The best romantic comedy I\u2019ve seen since Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind<\/em>.”<\/a><\/h3>\n

Stevee at Cinematic Paradox summed it up brilliantly: “This is not a love story. It’s a story about love.”<\/a><\/h3>\n

My buddy Will over at Silver Emulsion<\/em> didn’t enjoy it as much as I did: “Overall, it\u2019s a moderately enjoyable movie that is at times boring, at other times clich\u00e9d, and at other times still, clever. I liked it, but you\u2019d never catch me watching it a second time.”<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Terrific romantic dramadey with touching, elegant scripting and truly delightful, honest performances from both JoGo and Deschanel, 500 Days Of Summer manages to transcend the rom-com cliches and cliched Hollywood crap and actually be a film that can be watched by both men and women with equal enjoyment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":37100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[288,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mini-review","category-movie-review"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/500-Days-Of-Summer-Review-Logo-v5.1.jpg",984,295,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/500-Days-Of-Summer-Review-Logo-v5.1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/500-Days-Of-Summer-Review-Logo-v5.1-300x90.jpg",300,90,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/500-Days-Of-Summer-Review-Logo-v5.1.jpg",640,192,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/500-Days-Of-Summer-Review-Logo-v5.1-720x216.jpg",640,192,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/500-Days-Of-Summer-Review-Logo-v5.1.jpg",984,295,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/500-Days-Of-Summer-Review-Logo-v5.1.jpg",984,295,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/500-Days-Of-Summer-Review-Logo-v5.1.jpg",984,295,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/500-Days-Of-Summer-Review-Logo-v5.1.jpg",540,162,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/500-Days-Of-Summer-Review-Logo-v5.1.jpg",24,7,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/500-Days-Of-Summer-Review-Logo-v5.1.jpg",48,14,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/500-Days-Of-Summer-Review-Logo-v5.1.jpg",96,29,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/500-Days-Of-Summer-Review-Logo-v5.1.jpg",150,45,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/500-Days-Of-Summer-Review-Logo-v5.1.jpg",300,90,false],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/500-Days-Of-Summer-Review-Logo-v5.1.jpg",272,82,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"Mini Review<\/a> Movie Review<\/a>","tag_info":"Movie Review","comment_count":"16","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}