Rashida Jones is adorable, and I think it’s fabulous that she (like Brit Marling and Zoe Kazan) has faced the dearth of quality female roles head-on by sitting down and writing her own movie to star in.

Celeste & Jesse Forever is not a bad film, by any stretch. It kind of quirky, and Jones definitely made an attempt to write a lead character that was multi-dimensional and interesting. It even had a decent ending. But the writing is very uneven in quality, much of the humor falls flat, and the central relationship of Celeste and Jesse is strangely undeveloped, as is Jesse himself – Celeste and Jesse needed way more dialog for this film to pack any kind of punch, or even hold the viewer emotionally. Instead, the film comes across as a bit of a narcissistic exercise, sketching this bizarre, self-centered woman who frankly is not that believable in many ways.

The supporting acting is also uneven – Chris Messina and Emma Roberts are really good, but everyone else is pretty bad. As for the leads, Jones looks comfortable in her role, but her co-lead Andy Samberg is flat and looks kind of lost a lot of the time.

I’m not sure there’s any reason to Netflix this one.