Nick cannot stop obsessing over his ex-girlfriend, Tris, until Tris' friend Norah suddenly shows interest in him at a club. Thus begins an odd night filled with ups and downs as the two keep running into Tris and her new boyfriend while searching for Norah's drunken friend, Caroline, with help from Nick's band mates. As the night winds down, the two have to figure out what they want from each other.
There's not much reality or intellect to be found.
– Ted Fry,
Seattle Times,
3 Oct 2008
fresh:
Like Before Sunrise or the lovely karaoke-bar sequence at the center of Lost in Translation, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist captures the excitement of exploring a city with someone you barely know and really, really like.
– Dana Stevens,
Slate,
3 Oct 2008
fresh:
What makes the film work in spite of itself is [director] Sollett's sympathy for his characters and the teamwork between Cera and Dennings, whose winsome sultriness seems entirely unaffected.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
6 Oct 2008
rotten:
I would love the film more if the film didn't love itself so much.
– Ben Lyons,
At the Movies,
7 Nov 2008
rotten:
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist takes everything you loved in three decades of teenage romance and twists it into something unrecognisably desperate and exploitative.