Friday 12 February 2016

Paper Towns (2015) 7/10

Starring : Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne, Austin Abrams, Justice Smith, Halston Sage, Jaz Sinclair
Director : Jake Schreier
Running Time : 109 mins

After years of pining for his neighbour Margo (Delevingne), Quentin (Wolff) is invited by her on an adventurous night of revenge, but when he discovers the next morning that she has vanished he convinces himself and his friends that she has left clues behind for them to track her down.

This movie wasn’t that bad, sadly not getting interesting until Delevingne disappears. The search for Margo, being the bulk of the film, is the most fun and the characters that help Quentin in his search make the movie watchable. The references felt a little off. Clearly this was set in 2015, as the characters scratch their initials and the year at the end, yet it felt like it was set in the 80s, possibly because of the soundtrack and the overall feel of the film. Also the main three guys talk about sneaking in to see Snow Dogs when they were young, but they’d have been no more than five when that movie came out in 2002! In spite of these problems with time frames, it’s a film that teenagers will enjoy.

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