Review by Joseph Anthony
ME
AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL feels so familiar. It’s as if Wes Anderson’s spirit
and Michel Gondry’s BE KIND, REWIND met up with THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
and THE FAULT IN OUR STARS. That is to say, ME AND EARL feels like a hybrid of
a quirky art film and an accessible indie teen film.
The
“Me” in ME AND EARL is Greg (Thomas Mann), a high schooler who stays on the outskirts
of high school subgroups – but in everyone’s good graces. He can be creative,
intellectual, high-spirited, melancholy, whatever the situation dictates. Greg
is happy to not call anyone his friend, while at the same getting along with
everyone.
