Paul Fox. Video Q&A.

Everything's Gone Green. "What is the meaning of the title?" is just one of the questions Cabinetic puts to Paul Fox, who's realized Douglas Coupland's screenplay.

"If Generation X spoke aptly to Coupland and his cohort's experience of a more uncertain and impermanent future than that faced by preceding postwar generations," writes Ella Taylor in the LA Weekly, "the harmless, modestly charming Everything's Gone Green feels like a slightly stale rehash of his earlier themes of diminishing opportunities in love and work and a surfeit of false choices in a high-tech world governed by shiny appearances."

"Coupland and director Paul Fox seem to have arrived at the hipster-comedy party about a decade late, and their case of Pabst Blue Ribbon has gotten warm," writes Andrew O'Hehir in Salon. "As tepid and profoundly unoriginal as Everything's Gone Green is, it's got a wistful, winsome Canadian-ness that might give it some shelf life. Fundamentally, it's a well-executed formula movie, perfect for first-date couples or miscellaneous group outings. Is it wrong to expect more?"

"Much of it plays like a Don DeLillo novel by way of a sitcom, with good-looking 20-somethings fretting about consumerism and the yuppie mentality and cracking wise about existential predicaments," writes Matt Zoller Seitz in the New York Times.

"The film's tone is on the sitcom side," agrees Kevin Crust in the Los Angeles Times, "but its likable cast and zany subplots make it palatable."

"Everything's Gone Green is far from revolutionary," writes Matt Singer at IFC News, "but it is light and fun and won't tax you too much in exchange for ninety entertaining minutes."

"Everything's Gone Green feels fresher than it is, aided by a most appealing cast, and if it doesn't have quite the energy to make a lot of green itself, it deserves a look," writes Craig Phillips at Guru. "If nothing else, it'll make you want to visit Vancouver."

IndieWIRE interviews Fox.

Earlier: Jason Clark at Slant.

Posted by dwhudson at April 20, 2007 4:29 PM