KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

blairbraitenbach Watching this movie last night on late night television was a painful experience as a whole and simply made me angry. I have to agree with other reviewers that this movie was a blatant rip off of other poorly constructed "indie" films of the mid-nineties, such as Empire Records, Reality Bites and Mallrats. This boring, cliché-filled disposable piece of garbage should have been made 15 years ago and forgotten just as easily as its predecessors. This movie is clearly the writer's hipster wet dream of a life he wishes he could live: a sub-par musician who works at a café that only sells cereal (?), his ultra-cool artist girlfriend Zoey Deschanel (who must have owed a favour to the makers of this terrible, terrible thing), and supporting stoner characters who have nothing better to do than hang out and talk about cereal. So lame, so lame. There are so many cringe inducing lines and scenes it would take a novel to fully describe, but here's one of my personal favourites: "The Velvet Underground were before my time but I sure as hell know who they are." The main character performs a song at the end of the movie called "The Freakies" in which the lyrics are based on his love of cereal and how it contributes to his non-conformist/rocking against the establishment attitude. Barf! Avoid this movie at all costs.

kaput450 I thought this movie was pretty good. Yes, It may be trying a bit hard and the acting may not be top rate but at least it has some originality to it which is more than I can say for most movies out there. Yes it is cheezy and far fetched but it leaves you with a good feeling in the end. Who knows why someone would open up a cereal restaurant across the street from another but who knows why TV executives throw the best shows on at the same time or why there are 3 million Starbucks or 7-11s half of which are on the same block.This is a fun movie, Not great but good all in all. I wish I could give it an extra star to combat the negative reviews but I can not. Solid 6, and in my opinion worth watching if you have nothing better to do.Cheers, -=db=-

Panterken I generally write comments for movies I like (like most people do, whether it's an intentional choice or not) and even if I'm not too crazy about one, I still try to remain Mr. the-glass-is-half-full. Sadly however, there was nothing in this little indie flick, starring Zooey Deschanel and Aaron Stanford as a couple of semi-rebels who both aspire much but are not likely to actually achieve anything. While he is working in a cereal bar 'for the time being' (funny how many people who say that end up being permanent employees), she tries to sell art commercially (ironically enough) in a small stand. No matter how much the makers try to charm up the conversations, the mood can only be described as lifeless and if there was any chemistry I didn't see it, it's a shame the delightful Ms. Deschanel chose to waste her time with this kind of pointless movies.

mlanoue This is a movie that tries to be poppy and indie at the same time. There are lots of movies that do this, and they rarely hit the mark. There's enough quirkiness to keep you watching it, but not enough to really make you remember that you actually did watch it the day after. As amusing as the concept is of guys who buy black market cereal is, there's only so much you can do with the concept, and it ends up with a story line about a nice girl with a jerk boyfriend who really doesn't have the ambition to record his mediocre songs. It is nice to see New Orleans, and to see Christopher Lloyd dusting off his Jim-from-taxi persona one more time. It's the kind of movie you could recommend to your parents when they're trying to figure out how to set up their Netflix queue, unless they don't like swearing, that is. In the end, they probably should have just scrapped the whole idea of being edgy, and gone for the poppy movie thing.