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As romantic comedies go, Nick and Norah actually manages to hit both the emotion and the humour on the head.

Because this is just another romantic comedy, given a youth-audience spin, there's nothing much going on. It's got the standard slovenly agenda of shoving the two hetero leads together because they've always gotten shoved together...

[Kat Dennings] imbued the character [of Norah]-a role that could have very easily waded into stock character territory-with an achingly poetic depth and explosive comedic bite.

Even if the bare-bones story strums at cliche like a three-chord riff, these two innocent old souls seem utterly original.

What makes the film so endearing is its genuine plausibility.