Gregory's Girl (1982)

Basic premise is that gangly Gregory has a crush on the new (and only) girl on his football team. Although it's readily apparent that Dorothy would never be interested in the awkward - both physically and socially - teen, he's brave enough to instigate conversations with her (in which it becomes even clearer that she's far too mature for him) and even ask her out.

There were a lot of weird touches throughout which were evidence, to me, of it trying waaaayyyyy too hard to be quirky. Unless you're going for all-out silliness, having the hero, for example, forget about turning off an electric toothbrush and leave the room while it bumps across a countertop just makes me think "bad writing" rather than "what a colorful character!"

At the end of the movie, when Gregory waiting for his date with Dorothy, he instead gets a different girl...who then, after 20 minutes or so, passes him to another girl...who, in turn, passes him to another. When he finally asks what's going on he gets the response "that's the way girls are, we help each other." I mean, huh?

C-