I'm honestly surprised it took me this long to see this movie. I've heard so much about it but never sat down to watch it. Now that I have and I've got to say it was good movie about relationships - which it never lost sight of. Relationships was the main focus of the story and this movie was almost like a modern version of American Graffiti as it dealt with some of the same themes: last night in town before going on to college, boy and girl relationships, friendship, and the challenges that all go along with those themes. It kept those themes at the forefront of every incident or scene happening on screen.
This movie had a lot of heart. Everyone involved in the movie completely invested into it as they helped to sell the story and give it a real feeling that helped to me to connect with everything going on. I also liked how the characters in the movie didn't ever go against their personality types. They remained true to who they were when introduced as in the beginning of the movie or throughout the movie. Even by the movies end some growth had taken place in a few of them - much like American Graffiti.
This is a comedy through and through but relationships is what dominates the heart of this comedy as personality types clash and but heads throughout the movie. Cera and Hill really sell themsevles as friends as they both seem to play variations on other characters they have either played before or after this movie - so it didn't seem a great stretch for them to play these types of characters. But I will say they played them well and were convincing as friends both dealing some weighty issues that become revealed by the movies end. The break out star of this movie, stealing every scene he's in, is Christopher Mintz-Plasse playing McLoving, Cera and Hill third wheel in the friendship cycle. His scenes are convincingly good, a little over the top at times but I didn't seem to mind.
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