Metacritic reviews

The story -- is slight, but an appealing cast and lots of scenic leafery make Green feel fresh.

Starring an excellent Paulo Costanzo (late of "Joey") as a twentysomething uberslacker who is nonetheless willing to fall into accidental success, pic is seasoned with fine perfs by JR Bourne as a charismatic, creepy hustler and Steph Song as Constanzo's sexy potential love interest.

Green, the first feature Coupland's written, doesn't really make any innovations to the Almost 30-Underachievers genre, but it's an endearing, solidly-crafted example.

It's not the big picture that charms here, it's the details. More than anything, though, it's Costanzo--a spindly Everydork who grows up not because he has to, but because he just kinda wants to.

Fundamentally, it's a well-executed formula movie, perfect for first-date couples or miscellaneous group outings.

The film's tone is on the sitcom side, but its likable cast and zany subplots make it palatable.

It's a bit of a shaky first screenwriting effort for Coupland, but not without its charms.

The dialogue does have Coupland's characteristic snap, but like its mellow hero, the movie takes the easy route just a little too often.

This is Coupland's first screenplay, and it shows -- in a cheerfully discursive quality, but also in a reliance on gestures, contrivance and dialectic speeches rather than dramatic development and conflict.

Some ideas are auto-stolen (from Coupland's last novel, "JPod"), but those quirky atmospherics aren't enough to sustain a largely plotless film.