I'm kind of crushing on you right now Trinke.

Jersey Girl was quite different from Kevin Smith's other movies. The key change: Jersey Girl is really just a standard romantic comedy with Kevin Smith spark. A lot of critics have complained that we've seen this story before, but that's OK. Romantic comedies have a formula for a reason, it works. Smith took this formula and added excellent dialog, interesting characters and most importantly some wit.

Of Smith's previous movies only Chasing Amy is remotely close to this one. But Chasing Amy was much more raw and less truthful then this movie. Chasing Amy was a little too far out there to speak to most people. The characters in Jersey Girl are people that I feel like I could know, and the things that happen to them are things that I could imagine happening to me.

Because it's Keven Smith the characters are quirky, and the language and dialog has some raw qualities. But the dialog stays true to the characters and isn't an exercise in cleverness like it has been with him in the past. This is clearly Smith's most accessible film.

And it's a great film too. It was funny and touching - I even had a bit of a tear in my eye at the end.

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