This movie is a total disaster. Possibly the only good thing about this movie is the cast- Elijah Wood, Mandy Moore. I'm not a very big fan of Elijah or Mandy, but I've seen a couple of their movies, and they shine in their own ways. They're really great actors and even in this movie their acting is praiseworthy. The starting of the movie is... let's say a bit weird, yeah but that's okay sometimes. This evening i was watching this movie with a friend of mine. We thought why don't we stick with it a bit longer, it might get interesting later on, but we were so wrong. The script (although I doubt if there's any) is awful, the plot... well, i don't have a single clue about that! We watched the whole movie just to figure out- What the hell it's really about! It's just so boring, so annoying and kiddish with no real climax and the sudden (happy?)ending was something that you'll least expect... So terribly unrealistic! There's many "feel good" romantic comedies out there that will leave you with a "feeling" which lingers for sometime. The only feeling i have now after watching this movie is disappointment/confusion. Some of the scenes have no connection to the main storyline at all and it seemed like i was flipping through TV channels. There's a lot of good movies out there. Don't waste your time or money or good mood. 1 out of 10 and this is certainly going to my "worst movies ever" list.

Elijah wood plays a college student who after dropping out after his first day, moves into an apt building. He soon envelops his life in the lives of a few of the residents, including a photographer, Famke Potente and a self absorbed actress (redundant?) Mandy Moore. While he tries to figure out his life, a car crash makes him focus and do a reality check. The movie is a nice slice of life coming of age film but it seems that there is no there there. The acting is OK and the story is OK but slow. In the end it seems like the movie just sits there and doesn't really say anything that the viewer wants to hear.if you are a fan of the actors it is a passable way to waste a hour or so, but they have done better

I haven't said there are spoilers, because there is absolutely nothing you could call a twist. But if you haven't seen it, read this then DO! I think this is one of the best coming-of-age comedies there will ever be. Not because it was completely hilarious, but just because the content was honest, realistic and held many excellent performances. It starts with the very dreamy (in the out-of-it sense, though he is pretty fit) Elijah Wood (Jones Dillon, DON'T call him Frodo =D) turning up at collage and promptly deciding, 'f*** this, I'm out.' and simply leaving. It sounds ridiculous, but for some reason it just made sense. No-one noticed, especially not his parents, but we don't know that yet. He shacks up at this rather insane little building of flats, handing over $12,000 without a second thought and buying a load of furniture. I know some people are thoroughly annoyed by films that have no direction, and my fellow watcher said they were waiting for something to happen. But I think this movie just had so many perfect little events and witticisms that it did not matter in the slightest. My favourite scene is probably when the highly unpleasant sons of his over-flirtatious furniture-seller turn up and, instead of delivering his furniture begin to chuck it onto the sidewalk. Then, his gay (as yet unbeknown to us) cowboy downstairs-neighbour comes out with a huge gun as tells them in so many words that if they don't put down the furniture and p**s off, he'll blow off their man-hoods.All in all, there is drama without soap-opera, comedy without smut and one of the most unplaceable accents in the history of cinema. It is sweet and adult at the same time, with enough angst not to be, you know, teen-angsty and the most corn-free family issues you could wish for. Also, his imagination plays part from time to time, delivering nude art teachers, bagel-delivering belly dancers and a bazooka for blowing away people who p**s him off. His character is very edgy, one second he's this adorably vulnerable little thing, the next he's a smoking, gun-toting revenge-wrecker. (Not to be taken utterly literally). You couldn't predict a single word his character is going to say, it's really strange. He arches from miserable little-boy-lost to independent risk-taker, it's a joy to see. Rigt at the end, I was so sure the movie would be unique in, the girl of his dreams gets away, and DOESN'T come to her senses. I really did, and I thought it was great. But it didn't matter. I failed to understand why she went back to the guitar-player, leather clad love-rat anyway. I really went off her, she sleeps with him when he's driving her up to the city (to her love-rat) as she's broken her leg, then acts like he's being the one in the wrong when he tells her it wasn't nothing and she shouldn't be doing this. DUH! How stupid are some women?! Ah well, it's all good in the end.I have just one qualm, during the photo-shoot scene when she's telling him about herself and vice-versa, I swear her shirt changes! One minute, it's a black vest with a long sleeved net thing under it, then it's not netting, its see-through shiny stuff. The it changes back. It's not the light, thank you! I swear it isn't. Any thoughts, anyone? Anyway, 10/10!! Loved it a lot, and Elijah Wood is really hot! Never noticed before!

Most romantic comedies seems to be cut out of the same mold lately. A recent example of a mediocre one is 'Raising Helen', with some refreshing moments, but mostly an uninteresting treatment of 'boy meets girl'. This one is very different. Caught somewhere between a comedy and a drama, overall it is more funny than serious, but with a few serious moments. Unpredictable characters, interesting situations, make for interesting viewing. Elijah Woods, that cute little guy, is destined for a career that parallels the one Michael J Fox has had. Mandy Moore continues to show why she has become one of the better young actresses, seemingly able to play any type of role. Franka Potente is fine, but I wonder why she was cast. I like her, she was great in 'Run Lola Run', but with her obvious German accent, which was never explained in the movie, she doesn't seem to be a logical choice. But in the end, hers was a very nice character.SPOILERS FOLLOW, quit reading, OK? Woods plays a 'Jones' (first name), a 17 year old boy from a family of wealth, off to college, financed by grandpa, but "withdraws" his first day when he meets his skinhead roommate from hell. So he finds a small apartment in a converted 3-story house, other tenants are Moore and Potente. Writes a check for $12,000 to cover the year lease amount. He was highly inexperienced in the ways of the world. Oh, and by the way, is still a virgin. Moore is an actress, Potente a photographer. Woods writes letters to his dad he never knew, but instead of mailing them puts them in his large trunk, because he doesn't know who his father is. The fourth tenant is a nice gay man who has guns and a motorcycle, and helps Jones learn some new skills. Jones and the photographer develop an attraction, but it is obvious that she, a somewhat older woman, just wants a friendship. In the end, after a wreck avoiding a deer at night, Jones drives her 2000 miles to be with her cad of an old boyfriend. Jones tries to talk her out of it, but leaves anyway. Growing up, learning the ways of life, he confronts his phobias, comes to grips with not ever meeting his father, and as the movie ends we see Potente coming back, to give Jones a go because he is a genuine, decent guy.