It's your typical teen romantic comedy, but I did like the characters developed in the movie.
The story was really three-dimensional but the characters slightly more interesting than the usual stereotypes.
It was a cool story about a that typical white guy in all the teen comedies who falls for the girl next store who he use to know well as kids but lost track of her as puberty hit and just before high school comes to an end, they reconnect.
The twist to this formula is that just when they're starting the re- connection that would lead them down the same road as all the other teen romances, she disappears before that happens, which sends the white guy on a wild goose chase to find her as she left clues to were she is. Thus the movie becomes a coming-of-age story for the white guy and all his friends who help him on his quest.
John Green, who wrote the story tends to turn the Teen romance genre on it's head. The same thing is done with the last movie I saw adapted from one of his books, The Fault in Our Stars. He knows how to mix up the formula really well.
It's really is not your typical Teen Romance comedy either. It has a lot of elements to it. It's not complicated, just perfectly layered with other Teen movie genres without loosing track of it's purpose.
I don't think I've ever enjoined a movie like this more than I've enjoined Paper Towns. All it needs is a cool Breakfast Club styled theme song to make it perfect.
The story was really three-dimensional but the characters slightly more interesting than the usual stereotypes.
It was a cool story about a that typical white guy in all the teen comedies who falls for the girl next store who he use to know well as kids but lost track of her as puberty hit and just before high school comes to an end, they reconnect.
The twist to this formula is that just when they're starting the re- connection that would lead them down the same road as all the other teen romances, she disappears before that happens, which sends the white guy on a wild goose chase to find her as she left clues to were she is. Thus the movie becomes a coming-of-age story for the white guy and all his friends who help him on his quest.
John Green, who wrote the story tends to turn the Teen romance genre on it's head. The same thing is done with the last movie I saw adapted from one of his books, The Fault in Our Stars. He knows how to mix up the formula really well.
It's really is not your typical Teen Romance comedy either. It has a lot of elements to it. It's not complicated, just perfectly layered with other Teen movie genres without loosing track of it's purpose.
I don't think I've ever enjoined a movie like this more than I've enjoined Paper Towns. All it needs is a cool Breakfast Club styled theme song to make it perfect.