Am I The Only One Who Did Not Like This?
I normally love these type of indie coming-of-age films like Stand By Me and The Way Way Back. With that said, this film just really irritated me. Two of the main actors were pretty bad and sounded incredibly wooden. Didn't help that the dialogue was weak. Tone is all over the place and a lot of the humor didn't work. It kept trying to come across as a slice-of-life teen drama, but was way too Hollywood-ized with unrealistic characters and events. Also, there were enough musical montages in this film to make Zach Braff blush.
I'm really shocked it's rated so highly.