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In an age of cheesy, predictable, and sometimes simply stupid romantic comedies, let's thank the romcom gods for the work of brilliance known as Ruby Sparks. The films stars Paul Dano as a man with a a huge amount of genius when it comes to writing fiction and an equally large amount of ineptness when it comes to relationships. He finds strong inspiration in a dream about a girl and quickly writes many pages about her, only to find the living, breathing, figment of his imagination in his kitchen. Although she seems the perfect girl in every way (he made her that way, after al), having a girlfriend that he can totally control with a few strokes of a keyboard comes with a price. As a writer myself, I have found a few books and movies in which I look at the basic idea of the plot and wonder, how did the writer come up with that? This was one of those plots. On top of it, brilliant quirkiness of both Dano and Kazan plays up the wonders of this film. To some this review up in two words: see it.

I'm a high school sophomore who was looking to go to see this movie in theaters. It looked cool and interesting. I couldn't have been more wrong. The plot might sound unique at first, but it is not at all. It is just another stupid movie about teens getting drunk and falling in love. I have ADHD, so I have trouble watching movies that are too long. But whether or not this was long, it was seriously painful to sit in the theater. It was so boring, that after about 45 minutes, it came to the point where I really didn't care about the characters. It is a movie that I vow to never watch again except under extreme circumstances. But one of the reasons why this film annoys me so much is that someone might judge the teen genre based of of this movie and hate it, when there are so many good ones out there like Charlie Bartlett, Super Bad, and Juno. This is one movie that I can't stand and I know that I' not the only person who feels that way.