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Jul 24, 2015 · Paper Towns isn't as deep or moving as it wants to be, yet it's still earnest, well-acted, and thoughtful enough to earn a place in the hearts of teen filmgoers of all ages. Read Critics...
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The current Green adaptation, “Paper Towns,” might not possess the same exhilarating highs and somber lows as “The Fault in Our Stars,” b ut this teen drama wrapped around a human enigma does share more than a few commonalities, including the same savvy writing team of Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, who also did the screenplay ...
Oct 16, 2008 · 1,361,410 ratings56,093 reviews. Who is the real Margo? Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows.
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Apr 28, 2015 · Tue 28 Apr 2015 10.00 EDT. John Green, Paper Towns. Paper Towns is a fantastic, interesting and unique novel that I thoroughly enjoyed. I was very eager to read this following how much I...
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By Brian Formo
Posted: Jul 23, 2015 11:35 pm
Paper Towns concerns a cool girl who makes herself the high school gone girl. She intricately plots an escape-from-Orlando plan—and leaves clues of whereabouts in parental palaces, places of squalor, and the pages of Wikipedia—after committing a series of suburban breaking-and-entering crimes.
What’s cool about Paper Towns is that even though she’s seen through the eyes of a teenage boy, it does allow the cool girl, the manic pixie dream girl, the Suburban Pennsatucky, Margo (Cara Delevingne), to make choices for herself. But what’s coolest is the friendship between three high school boys: Quentin (Nat Wolff), Ben (Austin Abrams), and Radar (Justice Smith).
This trio of band kids embark on a road trip to find Margo after she’s run away, and it’s a road trip worth taking. Their prom dates (Halston Sage and Jaz Sinclair) are in tow, but Paper Towns is mostly about boys chasing paper-thin constructs of girls and discovering more texture. It’s the sweet-natured, non-jaded, middle class version of The Virgin Suicides, with the same lesson: you can’t ever know a girl if you’ve already constructed everything about them in your mind. And you can’t get upset when they don’t fulfill your own cool girl construct. Through Radar, it also acknowledges that these expectations unfairly creep into friendships, too. The larger lesson of Paper Towns is that you should allow people you love to be the people you love.
Why is Margo so sought after? She’s adventurous. As a child she discovered a dead man, and then researched his identity and invited the younger Quentin (through his bedroom window) to go spy on the man’s widow. Quentin turned her down, and thus two roads diverged. Margo grew up and spent her teen years on the road with rock and roll bands and a group of cool kids, Quentin did his homework and planned his happiness to start exactly 12 years after high school. When Margo discovers that her boyfriend (Griffin Freeman) is cheating on her, she invites Quentin (through his bedroom window) to assist her in getting revenge. It’ll be the most he’s strayed from his perfect path, but his construct of a perfect girl is Margo, so he goes along with it, and after a night of hijinks she disappears.
Paper Towns is the most enjoyable high school movie of 2015. Unlike say, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, you can’t feel the movie trying hard to make you like it. Paper Towns loves the characters created by author John Green (The Fault in Our Stars) and each step of the way feels natural (if not entirely believable) because director Jake Schreier (...
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Paper Towns Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Richard Crouse Richard Crouse. The cast brings the material to life, breathing life into a story that is...
Jul 4, 2015 · By Todd McCarthy. July 4, 2015 12:00pm. Based on an earlier teen fave novel by The Fault in Our Stars author John Green, Paper Towns is a mild coming-of-ager about dawning awareness and life...
