Paper Towns

I like everything about Paper Towns except for its premise and central romance. Yes, I know those sort of seem like dealbreakers, but the things I liked about Paper Towns marginally outweighed the things I didn't like. Marginally.

'Paper Towns' may well be the Manic Pixie Dream Girl's nadir.

The film is thankfully shorn of the sentimentality which weighed down The Fault in Our Stars.

Paper Towns is a breathtakingly vanilla adaptation of another soppy novel from The Fault in Our Stars author John Green.

An engaging, if familiar, mix of teen rites of passage, the fun of friendship and mooning over a cool girl. Still, Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne make for a watchable duo.

I found it quite charming - and I don't normally do charming.

The cast brings the material to life, breathing life into a story that is simultaneously overwritten and under realised.

Paper Towns is a coming-of-age film that doesn't always get it right. But, when it does, it transcends the message across quite evidently.

Hollywood can surprise us and serve up an honest, funny, entertaining, and endearing film.

Whether for looking forward or looking back, Paper Towns is worth the trip.