Paper Heart

The interviews: okay. The "real-life scenes": okay. The dramatizations: sort of irritating. Overall: very skippable.

The interview portions of the film are really good, but the story that's at the core of the movie just doesn't work. It doesn't help that, despite the fact that they're playing variations of themselves, none of the three leads are overly likable.

The interviews with couples were the best part of the movie, it was nice hearing genuine people's look at love. The romance between her and michael cera is woven it decently, as it occurred, but it just didn't fit well into the documentary.

Fascinatingly meta, eye-rollingly twee, annoyingly self-aware... This self-labeled exploration of love and deconstruction of the documentary is a fucking mess, but whatever.

Endearingly quirky, off-beat docu-mocku hybrid is shallow and superficial in its insights into romantic relationships, spotlighting a series of likable if dull couples, then interspersing them with Yi and Cera’s burgeoning relationship. The biggest problem with the film is in Yi and Jasenovec never squaring up with their audience as to how seriously to take the narrative, which leaves the film feeling like a cold (and alienating) practical joke. Eminently watchable, but largely pointless.

A not-entirely-successful experiment in the newly-created genre of meta-pseudo-mockumentary, but it's often rather sweet

The interview segments are quite good, and I appreciated that they took their subjects seriously and didn't make fun of them for easy laughs. Basically, the non-fiction portion is enjoyable for its sincerity, but the fiction part is surprisingly (or perhaps not) insipid, despite my appreciation of Michael Cera, and I felt like the inconsequential nature of it tended to cheapen the really sweet and funny interviews. The kids in the playground are fucking hilarious.

People label this as "twee" or "annoyingly precious" and while it admittedly doesn't always work, most fail to realize that this is a moderately successful inquiry into the chaotic, deceptive, and elusive nature of romantic love, wherein one doesn't exactly know when truth ends and pretense begins.

A cute and honest film. Worth the watch.

a strangely nice documentary (?)

This movie was put under the comedy section but it was really a documentary. Charlyne Yi is a girl who claims she doesn't believe in love. So she goes around the U.S. to ask people to tell their stories about how they believe or don't believe in love. Charlyne was lovable enough but she was listed as a musician and comedian. Two things I did not see her excel in, in this film. She dates Michael Cera but nothing really comes of it. I'm not even sure if any of this was real. I didn't like it.

This is a nice little quirky documentary. Michael Cera and Charlyne make a great awkward couple. Although this film doesn't dwell very deeply into the subject of love there are several funny moments.

"The questioning yields but modest insights, more along the line of "love is a hard thing to find--when you have it, keep it" than any heretofore undiscovered secret formulas." - Andrew Schenker

Cute, but ultimately quite vapid, just like the two leads.

Pleasant, but utterly pointless and haphazardly thrown together.

Cera has some hilarious lines, but this movie is just bad overall.

Pointless, seems like people suddenly decided to make a movie that very moment. Cera is occasinally funny.

Fun little movie. Charlyne Yi is super cute. Very weird fake documentary about love. Well acted and just off-beat enough to be interesting.

No substance, all quirk.

xD

Indie douchebaggary

Hit and miss.

Flat out a mess of a documentary. It doesn't reveal or expose anything and the only really interesting part, the relationship between Charlyne and Michael Cera, is completely false. It just feels so false from start to finish and the only genuine moments are small snippets in interviews that really tell us nothing other than boring and cliched answers. To be fair the puppet sections are pretty awesome.

If you are familiar with "hipster", "alternative", or "indie" culture than your enjoyment of this movie is going to depend on how indie you are. If you are ignorant to it, than your enjoyment of this movie is going to be based on how much you enjoy watching Charlyne Yi be Charlyne Yi. Although I'm luke warm about this film, it did really make me want to see a live Charlene Yi performance, cause she is so weird.

This film made me think again of what love is to me and I think this is the best effect of it despite all the ups nor downs.

Had some ups and downs. I liked the mockumentary style, but it was over-the-top painfully quirky at times. The interview segments were good, but the meta plot to the movie was hit and miss.