Movie Review
Review The Fault In Our Stars
I know that since this movie is based on a book that is read by many teenage girls, the movie is bound to get people scoffing at it and writing it off, and I understand that.
The Fault of Our Stars is about two teenagers who meet up in a support group and realize that they have one thing in common "Cancer". Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley) is a 16 year old teen who has Stage 4 Lung cancer who meets Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort) who is an 18 year old who has Bone Cancer in a support group and the two of them become friends quickly and soon they fall in love. Of course Hazel dreams of going to Amsterdam to meet an author called Peter Von Houten (Willem Dafoe) who wrote her favorite book,and her mom and her dad decide that she can go on behalf of the hospital that she goes to get herself looked after. But will her 3 day trip to Amsterdam be great or not? Also is Gus really cured from his bone cancer or is he hiding something from Hazel?
Let me say that I think Shailene Woodley does a great job. She sells the role completely and seems so sweet and likable. Ansel Elgort can occasionally fall into the "dream guy" clich̩ that romance movies have, but I would say overall he works. You do care for him. They have great chemistry and it's so great seeing them on screen. I think they work quite well. Laura Dern is very effective as Hazel's mother, and in his brief turn РWillem Dafoe is effective as Van Houten - The author of "An Imperial Infliction" - a book that ended with some unanswered questions, which Hazel and Agustus desire to get, prompting a desired trip to Amsterdam to meet him.
While it's not a perfect movie, it's extremely enjoyable and has a lot of heart. It will make you laugh, cry, and get you thinking about love. It creatively captures a teenager's perspective of love but also of dealing with cancer. It reaches out to a younger audience but still allows an older audience to enjoy it. I know it is clich̩ - Suffice it to stay РIf you have a heart, you will not helped but be moved РAnd you don't have to have read the book.
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