There seems to be a lot of coming-of-age movies being released within the past year. IMO the best of the crop are THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER and THE WAY WAY BACK. Unfortunately, I can't put THE SPECTACULAR NOW in the same league. There just was nothing special about it. I think the main problem I had with the film was that (1) I didn't connect with any of the main characters as I did with PERKS, and (2) I didn't find it funny or heartwarming like WAY WAY BACK. To me, NOW seemed more like a TV movie than anything else. I mean, what was so original about the boy being like the father he never saw? Or the geeky girl having a crush with the cool guy at school?
Review of The Spectacular Now
