It's Kind of a Funny Story

Gilchrist ("United States of Tara") is immensely appealing as a kid who's just a bit too wrapped up in himself to grasp that perhaps his problems aren't insurmountable.

Even though the various patients too often come across as cutesy case studies, Fleck and Boden for the most part avoid working their lives up into some grand-scale "Cuckoo's Nest"-style microcosm of humanity.

The result is both a success and a disappointment. It's Kind of a Funny Story, divided into neat little daylong chapters in Craig's stay, lacks the staying power and bittersweet layering of "Half Nelson" and "Sugar."

Gilchrist, Emma Roberts and, especially, Zach Galifianakis, give affecting performances, but they are ultimately let down by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's screenplay.

This is a film about depression, though, and it comes awfully close to trivializing its subject by suggesting that all Craig needed, really, was a cute girl to like him back.

Isn't very funny or much fun at all.

There's very little that's even kind of funny in It's Kind of a Funny Story, which can't accurately be described as a comedy but isn't a true drama, either.

Really pretty movie, is emotive, and fantastic, the performance of Emma Roberts is really awesome and the rest of the cast, uff, is fantastic. It's Kind of a Funny Story is amazing.

As in its title it is kind of a funng story, an dit is kind of entertaining. Well overall it is a very well made movie with great performances. I give this movie 61%.

What a surprising movie! I really enjoyed it. This film recalls â

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If I needed an encyclopedia on every romanic comedy cliche ever conceived, It's Kind of a Funny Story would be my perfect guide. I think it all went downhill when the main character, unsure of how to grab the attention **** he likes, receives the most "important" piece of advice in the whole film: drop the L word. The L word of course being Love, not Lesbians as Scott Pilgrim vs. The World put it for us earlier this year; a film by the way that actually broke some ground in the romcom genre. Of course, the main character being the dweeby idiot that most love story protagonists are these days, drops the L word at complete wrong moment... Top it off it with lover boy figuring out to win her back in the matter of 20 minutes and then a romantic makeout session on a scenic rooftop with the view of the sunset. Seriously? Despite the cliches this movie is riddled with cheesy performances and flat jokes. Zack Galifianakis is of course the films only redeeming quality; seeing him pull off a serious role so effectively is will give you chills... but everything else drags it down.