Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is a sweet little film. That's it. It's a sweet little teen film. No fart jokes. No gratuitous nudity. No teenage boys frantically trying to get laid.

Nick (Michael Cera) is nursing a broken heart. His girlfriend Tris (Alexis Dziena) has moved on and he keeps making her mix tapes in a futile attempt to win her back. Meanwhile, at her all-girl's school Tris laughs off his CDs while her two friends smart girl Norah (Kat Dennings) and party girl Caroline (Ari Graynor) kind of feel bad for him. In fact, Norah finds herself strangely attracted to him (although they've never met) because his mix tapes are so great.

Nick is also the straight man (literally) in his band, The Jerk-Offs. Even though his bandmates (Aaron Yoo and Rafi Gavron) are gay, they feel for their hetero homie and want him to get over Tris once and for all. All the major players meet when the Jerk Offs get their first real gig. Tris shows up with her new boy toy and so do a very drunk Caroline and a lonely Norah. The band mates immediately see the connection between Nick and Norah and offer to take Caroline home so the two can get to know each other. Things are going well, until Caroline disappears. The rest of the movie chronicles the gang's search for Caroline and for the elusive band Where's Fluffy who are playing a surprise concert somewhere in New York City that night.

Nick and Norah refer to themselves in the film as 'straight edges' - kids who don't drink or do drugs. Both are smart and nice. The kind of people who rarely end up together. If nothing else, I give Nick and Norah props for doing the teen thing a little differently. The film features two sensible kids as well as a group of gay fairy godbrothers who really want to see the couple get together.

Cera and Dennings have a good connection and manage to capture that feeling you get when you like someone but you don't know what to do next. First in Arrested Development and then in Superbad and Juno, Cera has gotten very good at playing the smart, sensitive guy. He's good at it here as well although I would like to see him flex his acting muscles in another direction for a change.

I hadn't seen Dennings before but she too managed to nail the smart girl with a few insecurities well. She played her character as a young woman who did have some issues with her self but wasn't consumed by them. Smart move.

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is the rare teen film that has both some intelligence and some heart.