Director Josh Boone
Staring Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort & Nat Wolff
Rated M
Score 4/6

Two teens, both who have different cancer conditions, fall in love after meeting at a cancer support group.

For those of you keeping score at home, no I haven’t read the novel The Fault in our Stars, but at 32 I feel that on occasion I can skip reading the occasional young adult/teenage novel sensation and just review the movie instead, in a shameless attempt to drum up more traffic for The Movie Boards.
I’d recommend that possibly you don’t watch The Fault in our Star immediately after watching Divergent considering Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort played sister and brother in Divergent. I suppose this begs did the filmmakers spend that long casting the movie? Alternatively, they more than likely saw something in Woodley and Elgort in Divergent that I didn’t.
Setting my dislike for Divergent aside Woodley and Elgort gave decent performances. Elgort seems to have the level of charisma that you would expect of any leading man while Woodley has the makings of a great actress. Despite Woodley and Elgort’s performances their characters Hazel Grace and Augustus where pretentious and flirted with crossing into the realm of having swallowed a thesaurus, so I kind of liked the scene where Willem Dafoe as author Van Houten tore them both a new one.
I’m not sure if I am going to rush back to watching The Fault in our Stars, but its heart is in the right place and that’s all you can really ask of a movie. By the time that the time the credits rolled I had a smile on my face and a slight tear in my eye.