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Awwww. The Emo Muppet Gets a Girlfriend

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (37)

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You guys are familiar with Charlyne Yi, right? She’s the cutish Asian bong-gobbler in Knocked Up — she played Martin Starr’s girlfriend. She hasn’t done a lot, since. However, she did put together a documentary about LOVE, specifically what it is, which is kind of a cool, earnest thing to do in the midst of the (dying) Apatow revolution. Basically, she set out to make this documentary about LOVE and ended up falling in LOVE herself, with Michael Cera of all people, and that sort of became the focus of the documentary.


The doc debuted at Sundance this year, with a mixed reception But, from the looks of the trailer, at least, it looks kind of cute. Plus, it’s got Martin Starr in it, and it is my understanding from reading comments on this site, that there are some of you who want to have Bill Haverchuck’s babies. And I’m all right with that.

Here’s the trailer. Check it out.









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Comments

Aww. I got smiley.

Posted by: Clee Shay at April 21, 2009 10:22 AM

Being a cutish Asian girl with a dorky white boyfriend, I'm probably going to end up watching this movie.

Posted by: dia at April 21, 2009 10:24 AM

Michael Cera? I though he was retiring?

Posted by: George at April 21, 2009 10:25 AM

Last year (or maybe two years ago, I forget), I saw Charlyne and Michael Cera walking by the gas station near my house. He was in Michigan filming some movie or something.

Maybe I'm in the documentary.

Posted by: Forbiddendonut at April 21, 2009 10:26 AM

Is this real? It seems too much like an improv-heavy Apatow flick, except in this case the actors are playing characters of themselves, using their well-established popularity and witty banter to draw the viewer in.

I don't think this is a real documentary. Is it?

No way.

Posted by: Jarsh at April 21, 2009 10:27 AM

I call bullshit on this "documentary". It's a documentary like Borat was a doc.

Posted by: Withnail at April 21, 2009 10:29 AM

I'm sold. That looks so adorable.

Posted by: Carrie at April 21, 2009 10:34 AM

It's so...cute.

Documentaries aren't supposed to be cute.

There better be a frozen egg cracking to bring down the tone or I'll leave the theater with diabetes.

Posted by: Robert at April 21, 2009 10:34 AM

Jesus. So much quirkiness. So much awkward muttering and fumbling. I feel like visiting a retirement home with a pickax and a flame-thrower.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at April 21, 2009 10:35 AM

please take down that picture, it is freaking my out.

what IS that?

Posted by: gp at April 21, 2009 10:37 AM

I think its bullshit too , but i do know these 2 are together so maybe it was just a fun lil doc to have fun with .

But def bullshit .

Posted by: GILP at April 21, 2009 10:39 AM

Yeah, I don't think the doc is for real. But it does look entertaining, and Diabeetus inducing.

"What's your perfect date?"
Little girl: "Take them to Applebee's and buy them some hot wings." HA!

It's also good to see Cera branching out into more complex characters.

Posted by: admin at April 21, 2009 10:46 AM

She was Kenneth's almost-girlfriend on 30 Rock. "Doggone it, Grace, I just don't know myself around you."

Posted by: Lucas at April 21, 2009 10:50 AM

That was adorable.

:::vomits on floor:::

Posted by: Kolby at April 21, 2009 10:58 AM

Cu-ute.

My thoughts towards Bill Haverchuck are too dirty to type. I seem to remember ripping off somebody's weave when she claimed him as her boyfriend, so consider yourselves ON NOTICE.

Posted by: Brook at April 21, 2009 10:58 AM

Certainly not buying this as a real documentary (which they seem to acknowledge in the trailer when "documentary" gets crossed out and replaced with "story")... but it certainly looks cute, and I'll bet that the interviews with regular people would be entertaining and touching.

This makes me wonder though -- are Cera and Yi actually dating in real life, as I had read, or was it some sort of promotional thing for this movie? Ohh, reality and staged "reality" getting mixed up... it's like "The Hills," but awkward and geeky and Apatowian. Not gonna lie, I could dig that.

Posted by: Caro at April 21, 2009 11:01 AM

Ok, so I think this might be scripted.... but, really who knows? It looks adorable and I will probably watch it.

Also if Charlyne feel in love with Cera, then it should be noted that her imdb page says she was born in 76 and Cera was in 88. Cougar! hahahah.

Posted by: cherry at April 21, 2009 11:05 AM

HAVERCHUCK!

I too have an inappropriate crush on Bill Haverchuck. Especially after that makeout scene in the closet with Vicky.

It has bled over into dirty thoughts about Martin Starr in general. He falls into that category of ugly-sexy. See also: Lovett, Lyle; and Del Toro, Benicio.

Posted by: marya at April 21, 2009 11:11 AM

Brook, I WILL cut you if you come near Haverchuck, do not doubt.

Posted by: covererdinbees at April 21, 2009 12:14 PM

cherry, Charlene is actually only 23. IMDB, for whatever reason, has her age wrong.

Posted by: Abe Froman at April 21, 2009 12:28 PM

That movie could not be more twee if it was boxed in a faded hoodie and Buddy Holly glasses.

Posted by: Kayanne at April 21, 2009 12:43 PM

I agree with all the "cutes" above. Using the most positive definition of that word, I honestly can't remember the last time I was able to do so about anything on film.

Posted by: courtney at April 21, 2009 12:45 PM

I will watch this all curled up on my couch and never admit it to my friends. Much the same way I watch marathons of American's Next Top Model on Oxygen on my days off.

Shut up.

And all you bitches can just FUCK OFF my boyfriend. I will be having the geeky Haverchuck babies around here.

There's just something about him, right? He's all tall and so earnest and when he's not wearing crazy magnified glasses (or even when he is) and his facial hair is under control it's just like DAMN! You're a good looking man, Martin Starr! And then suddenly he's looking good in every incarnation and people give you weird looks when you kind of moan a little in the theater and

Cute trailer, yeah.

Posted by: Sharon at April 21, 2009 12:56 PM

God. I never in a million years would've been interested in Cera in high school. He seems about 10 to me.

Posted by: samantha t at April 21, 2009 1:25 PM

Benicio del Toro is not "ugly sex." He is transcendent sex. He'd rip you to shreds, and then hold your tattered remains in his arms and sing you lullabies in Spanish while you healed. And it would all take place in an elevator at a seedy hollywood hotel bar, between the first and fifth floors. And you wouldn't understand what happened, but you'd never be the same. I need to stop thinking about this at work.

The rest of you may keep your Haverchucks.

Posted by: Sweetie Dahling at April 21, 2009 1:29 PM

Sweetie Dahling, I get you. I once read in a gossip column that Scarlet Johansson had fucked del Toro in an elevator like it was some huge scandalous deal and I was kind of like "good on you, girl, I'd have probably done the same." It's pretty much the most interesting thing I've ever heard about that woman.

Still haven't seen any of Freaks and Geeks, so y'all can keep your Haver-whatever. (That is a Freaks and Geeks thing, right? There's like four shows that people reference on here that I've never seen and usually I just have to use educated guesses to figure out which one y'all mean.)

Posted by: Genny (also Rusty) at April 21, 2009 1:42 PM

Cute trailer. Good for her. I still don't believe in love.

Posted by: n at April 21, 2009 2:17 PM

I was a latecomer to the Freaks and Geeks (what was I so busy doing 10 years ago when it was on, working?) but I'm a huge fan. If you haven't seen it, give it a shot. Still holds up well.

Posted by: Sharon at April 21, 2009 2:40 PM

I saw a picture still from this 'documentary' in some magazine, and told my friend, 'michael cera and cute asian girl? SOLD. I'll see it.'

Now that I've seen the trailer, I know I know myself pretttty much as well I can... SO SO SO freaking cute. If it wasn't Michael Cera or cute asian girl, I'd probably want to stick my finger down my throat.

Posted by: soto at April 21, 2009 3:10 PM

Not to bring the haterade, but this looks lamer than two dorky kids with a video camera making a real documentary. How can people hate on "The Hills", but think this is "cu-te". Isn't it the same thing, only with less MTV-friendly faces?

If this is the future of Apatow, I don't want it.

Posted by: tncunnin at April 21, 2009 7:54 PM

I read in EW that Charlyne wanted to make a documentary about love but soon realized that approach wouldn't work, so her and the dude who directs this decided to make her a main character. Then Michael Cera got brought in (who I think was already Charlyne's boyfriend) so they could make the project more about the dynamic/romance between the two of them.

Posted by: littlesilverboulder at April 21, 2009 8:02 PM

i'm going to vomit! as cute as brangelina in grocery shop! beurk! i'm too cynic

Posted by: caro at April 21, 2009 8:20 PM

It's cute within reason.

I dunno...I mean, I'm all for quirky love stories rather than serious direct love stories (example: I fuckin' hated The Notebook, but Juno and Chasing Amy were great), yet the quirky punchlines were kind of lost on me.

She is cute, I suppose, but I don't find much funny about her. Cera, he's also funny when given the right material (see: Arrested Development), so it's a toss up.

I'll catch it on DVD rental...'cause I don't trust NetFlix.*

*Don't know why I threw that out there, but whatever.

Posted by: Riley at April 21, 2009 9:20 PM

"Being a cutish Asian girl with a dorky white boyfriend"

Do you or your boyfriend happen to live in Carroll Gardens/Park Slope/Williamsburg?

Posted by: Erica C at April 22, 2009 1:01 PM

Seriously? That's how Michael Cera talks full-time? I'd be looking around for Juno or Buster....geez. This just looks like it's gonna be overblown and hyped up way too much. Not really interested. Might as well be a scripted movie.

Posted by: grace b at April 22, 2009 9:02 PM

that didn't look like a documentary at all!

Posted by: fartygirl at April 22, 2009 10:21 PM

There was a thing about this film in Creative Screenwriting magazine this month (yeah...I'm a nerd) and how they basically started out with these interviews and then took Yi's growing relationship with Cera and worked it into a scripted film with documentary aspects. From a screenwriting perspective, it's pretty interesting.

I also really like that there's a smart young chick as the driving creative force behind this film.

Posted by: The essence of fanciness and class at April 23, 2009 12:33 PM