Marc Webb, 15 (95min) 2
Creative, stylish and slickly inventive, (500) Days of Summer is a rebooted romantic comedy that unfortunately boasts a conceptual hole at its heart. Here, Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt play, respectively, Summer and Tom, a pair of glaringly underwritten twentysomethings from Los Angeles whose quotidian relationship is nonetheless attacked with gusto by the debut film-maker and former pop promo director Webb. Thus, in a ditzy non- chronological narrative whirl, accompanied by zany dance routines, split screen set-pieces, and New Wave parodies, Webb makes the romantic life of a boring couple (Tom likes Summer more than Summer likes Tom) seem momentarily interesting. Which is a neat trick — but only that.