DISCLAIMER: First off I want to send out a disclaimer that this is about "Paper Towns," the movie, not the book. I have not read the book, nor do I want to after watching this terrible movie.
SPOILERS ahead! If you don't want to know what happens (believe me you might as well read this), then venture away from this article and do something productive.
Okay, so you're reading this because a) you love John Green more than you love ice cream, and I have committed third-degree blasphemy, b) you watched the movie and you agree/disagree and want to either love this or hate this, or c) you don't want to waste your time with a terrible movie and you want to see what the hoopla is about.
I'll give you a short synopsis here: guy loves neighbor girl. Neighbor girl and guy hang out as kids, and both grow up to be weird, but she turns out to be popular and weird. Guy is very droopy. Girl comes over one night through window, convinces dude to come with her and screw up a bunch of peoples' stuff. He falls in love with her. He wakes up the next day and she's gone. He looks for clues and finds some.
Now, up until this point, the movie is actually okay. As the audience, you are like, "Yeah, okay, let's find this girl and get us a happy ending!"
Well, if that's what you think happens, you are terribly wrong.
He finally finds a clue that she is 1,200 miles away in some "paper town," which is just some dumb analogy that everyone is lame and fake and so melodramatic it makes you want to puke. The guy then gets the rest of the supporting characters (that really aren't that interesting) together and they take a road trip to find the girl.
Long
story short, they get there and she is nowhere to be found. The dude is upset
and decides to let his friends drive home because he wants to look some more
and then he will take a bus home.
So this dude walks to a town and buys a ticket at this bus station, and he just so happens to look outside, and what do you know, the girl is just walking down the street.
At this point, you're definitely pumped to see her and get your happy ending. Nope. Not even close. Instead, he stops her and she is totally surprised, which is understandable. She then asks him why he is here, and the guy pretty much confesses his love to her and tells her how he found all her clues and that he is ready to spend the rest of his life with her.
Then she shuts him down. She tells him that she doesn't love him at all and that she always leaves clues, that's just who she is.
So, the guy goes to the bus station, gives her a kiss and then goes home! Literally, that's it. That's the movie. This dude travels across the country to confess his love to her to get totally shut down.
Unless you want to waste your time getting disappointed by a bad movie, I suggest you steer clear of "Paper Towns."























