Paper Heart Movie Review
Paper Heart is a movie starring Charlyne Yi and Michael Cera. I’ll use “movie” really loosely here. Because it’s not really a film in my opinion. Charlyne Yi is also known as that Asian girl in Knocked Up who was really high or just dumb.
Here’s the premise of the movie: girl (Yi) sets out to do a documentary to find the meaning of love by asking various people. She ends up meeting a guy (Cera) and falls for the guys but not necessary “in” love.
Anyway, you are on either side of things, either you believe to be this film be a legit documentary and Yi and Cera are in fact going out or you know going into the film that everything is fake…
My girlfriend convinced me that Yi and Cera were going out in real life and that the film was a semi-documentary. I probably wouldn’t have seen it had I known everything was fake because what stupid premise is that? The movie didn’t really change my mind anyway so that’s what I’m trying to get at.
My main qualms about this movie is that it hardly is one. I wasn’t convinced of the acting nor was I terribly convinced that it could’ve been real (but the jokes kept making it seem like it was). Cera plays the typecasted guy he’s been in the last few movies and I couldn’t really believe his version of the social awkward and strange Cera. I feel like I need to punch the guy in the face after a few times or at least take on a better acting role!
The only real problem with this film, it’s only funny if you believe that the film is real. A lot of the jokes are about the awkwardness of Cera and Yi in front of the camera while they document their lives. It almost makes rewatching the film like this impossible.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Based on the reviews, this film was severely overrated. While the film strives to be different, I can’t help but feel I wasted my $10 even after seeing the trailer (where I thought I was going to be ripped anyway and the film was below my expectations). The only positive? The artsy scenes where people described how they met in the backdrop were kind of cool.
Paper Thin Walls by Modest Mouse
Paper Planes (MIA Cover) by The Da Vincis
Paper Birds by Siberian
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