"Paper Towns" Movie Review

Based On: Paper Towns by John Green

Rating (G-R): PG-13

Starring: Cara Delevingne as Margo & Nat Wolff as Q

Genre: Drama/Mystery/Romance

Synopsis: A young man and his friends embark upon the road trip of their lives to find the missing girl next door.

(Summary from IMDb)

Review: This might not be the best book-to-movie adaptation that I've ever seen, but it wasn't the worst. It was truest to the book in the beginning with Q and Margo's adventure to get revenge on her friends and ex-boyfriend. However, some things were changed there - most likely for the sake of running time.

They did change the overall time line of the movie, which didn't bother me much. Instead of the characters graduating before they go to find Margo, they are attempting to return before Prom. This wasn't too much of a big deal.

I loved how they kept a lot of funny details from the books like Radar's parents having the world's largest collection of black santas. The way that was portrayed was hilarious. Ben's general teenage boy perviness was also something that stuck to the book and was perhaps a bit exaggerated.

It did seem like they sugarcoated the ending quite a bit. In the book, there was more of a realization that Margo is kind of a terrible person along with the realization that she is not what everyone thought she was. In the movie, they tried to hide the former more.

Rating: 4 Stars