"Charts the aimlessness and ennui of four insufferable, maturation-adverse college grads with relaxed realism." - Nick Schager

- recommended

The flashback scenes are perfect. Perfect. But the rest of the movie wasn't nearly as enjoyable in a second viewing.

I spent the majority of this one wishing that these characters would shut the 'eff up and get on with it. Yes yes yes, "cool" references and ironic posturing...I get it, very good. Honestly, sometimes I can handle spending some cinematic time with a bunch of smug quipsters, but with this particular group of actors? Outside of Stoltz, Posey and Jacott? No thank you. Redeemed slightly by a few quality scenes toward the end, particularly the one where they realize that they're all priggish a-holes.

I am three years into college, and I don't recognize any of this. I kind of wish I did.

Sparse, but quippy.

don't remember well, going with RT

I knew I wasn't going to like this, but it wasn't as bad as I thought. Better than Slacker.

written like a graduate, directed like a freshman. and its somehow pointless, i don't know.

too real. too REAL!

dismal acting, boring characters, bad dialogues.

Couldn't deal with the contrived dialogue/crap acting. In all honesty I didn't get more than a few seconds into the film. :-)

Amazing.

I love love love this movie.

It's a terrible review I know but it's a terrible film as well. As much as I kind of enjoyed it, you couldn't help but think 'How awful is this?' I've gotta admit that I couldn't stop laughing at the Bing Bong part, haha!

Eerily poignant at this stage of my life. It is clearly a "first film," but that shouldn't distract you. The characters are annoyingly familiar and humorous. A great debut for Mr. Baumbach.

Its potshots at young intellectual pretension can be almost grotesque and easy beside, but this movie -- its free-floating malaise, its instantly generated nostalgia, the desperate need to do SOMETHING and the fear of the same -- hit close to home more often than I'd care to admit. Like how the movie measures time in a way no longer relevant to the characters' lives and that Max's final poor decision happens without comment or reproval. Baumbach hurts the ones he loves, and he loves all of us.

"to think that for four years we were catching the same colds, being bit by the same mosquitoes" anyways.. i want a 'snake rental' neon sign in my bedroom. just because.

What was the point of this?

This was Noah Baumbach’s first film and it really feels like it. I often like dialogue-heavy, meandering stories, but this was mostly just boring. I can’t really relate to the American college experience, for one. I didn’t really like or feel invested in any of the characters or their relationships. It had a few witty lines, but not much real substance that I could see. Fortunately, Baumbach moved on to better things.

Not sure how everyone seems to love this?? I didn't enjoy it at all. I think I went to college with the characters in this movie and I hated them. I "get" the whole idea of being caught in this weird place between college and the real world and feeling like you need to "be" something, but not quite wanting to take that next step either. I just wish the characters weren't so annoying and quirky. Maybe it's just really dated 15 years later, but I was just waiting for this one to end.

Really well put together, fantastic observations, and I'm such a sucker for Chris Eigeman.

A nice blend of Richard Linklater and Wes Anderson, with just a dash of Kevin Smith at times. The dialogue was intellectual and witty, although people are naturally gonna hate on it because LOL HIPSTER even though it was 1995 and really people just apply that word to any film with humorously clever dialogue nowadays anyway where was I oh yeah. A little slight, and I wasn't a fan of the intertitles, but mostly a nice piece.

This is alright. The good thing is that the ensemble is great. All of the actors are likable and you don't get annoyed watching them converse among one another for 90 minutes. The dialogue is often sharp and funny, too. I guess part of the problem is that I can't relate to the story at all, but I like Baumbach and I think this film was a good start for him.