Not so romantic, comedy

Don’t get the wrong idea that just because this movie is a guy like girl that it’s like every other romantic comedy, “(500) Days of Summer” takes a different-and interesting-look at a relationship between Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel) and how they each grow from it. The movie, which flips between the 500 days spent with Summer (in a non-chronological order), starts setting the president for the two’s view on love; Summer taking her parents divorce as to show that life always gets in the way of love, whereas Tom has the view that ones life is not the best until that special person is in ones life. The two meet at work where Summer has just started, moving from Michigan, and then begin their relationship shortly after taking them on a whirlwind of a relationship. Tom believing she’s the one and Summer strictly having fun. Tom looks to his friends and mostly his little sister who not only brings great questions to the table for Tom, but great laughs for the audience. Tom must then figure out what Summer is worth and how to act on all this looking back at it all.

“(500) Days of Summer” surprised me with its great comedy and chemistry between the actors. I found it hard not too laugh one second and then feel bad for Tom the next, the movie does exactly what it tries to, make you invest in the characters. Even though this is a “romantic comedy” it takes a different perspective focusing on the male instead of looking at it from the girls perspective which I found to be interesting and made the movie much more interesting. Over all I actually enjoyed this movie much more than I had expected and although probably not chose to see it again, still thought it was a solid movie.

Overall Rating: 8 out of 10