Sure, I watched the whole thing out and I was even reasonably entertained - how could I not, it's the quintessential romcom where two attractive leads fall head over heals in love, and after some hardship find eternal bliss - the end.
But it's also extremely cliché: arrogant girl and obnoxious bad boy are thrown together, only to find that they both actually have hearts of gold and a woeful, all-explaining past. And the whole thing is obviously meant for a public of teens and young adults that revel in driving Porches, wild pool-parties, boozing, and (in this case) illegal streetcar racing and (even more farfetched) fighting clubs. The latter two were probably added by the makers to also please the boyfriends of the girls that are supposed to swoon over the lovestory and the romantic making-out scenes.
The traumatized background of Noah may be interesting in itself, but when her father appears in the last part of the movie as a vengeful murderous ex-convict intent to kill his daughter and ex-wife, it all goes totally over the top. The only thing that makes the end remotely rewarding is the car-racing along the boulevards and marina-boardwalks of this Spanish tourist city.
Being a boring adult I'm definitely not the one that this movie is aimed at, so why did I even bother? Well, sometimes it's nice to go with the easy flow, however cliché it might be. I'm only human.
But it's also extremely cliché: arrogant girl and obnoxious bad boy are thrown together, only to find that they both actually have hearts of gold and a woeful, all-explaining past. And the whole thing is obviously meant for a public of teens and young adults that revel in driving Porches, wild pool-parties, boozing, and (in this case) illegal streetcar racing and (even more farfetched) fighting clubs. The latter two were probably added by the makers to also please the boyfriends of the girls that are supposed to swoon over the lovestory and the romantic making-out scenes.
The traumatized background of Noah may be interesting in itself, but when her father appears in the last part of the movie as a vengeful murderous ex-convict intent to kill his daughter and ex-wife, it all goes totally over the top. The only thing that makes the end remotely rewarding is the car-racing along the boulevards and marina-boardwalks of this Spanish tourist city.
Being a boring adult I'm definitely not the one that this movie is aimed at, so why did I even bother? Well, sometimes it's nice to go with the easy flow, however cliché it might be. I'm only human.