( i will indicate in this review the point where spoiler begin . ) my dissatisfaction be split represent 30 % tone deafness and 70 % lackluster writing . the 30 % represent i agree with the first commenter synopsis about the lack of diversity in the character and scope of the story . i be surprised how and this film and at best and woefully shortchanges the real nyc by present a collection of people and relationship so narrow a to come across a if it inhabit only by the cast of gossip girl ( this be come from someone who like gossip girl ) . a few minority character be write into the story and but they be include by obligation and while we can see the gear under the film so clearly and strive to be diverse but fall ever so short . the 70 % be why everything fall short . all character and white plus a few token minority and be one dimensional and cardboard cutout of people concept . bad and their interaction with each other be script in such a way that for each vignette in the film the audience be treat to what i would say be a gag represent we get a basic conceit and then some punchline intend to be a clever twist . but even if we suspend cynicism for a moment to say and okay and that be a surprise . the story be still not that interest and because they and too and be shallow . when you fashion story so that their existence hinge solely on the unexpectedness of the end and youre writing joke . spoiler below . the movie primarily try to tell romantic story . that fine . but romance be amazing and deep and sometimes complex . these romantic story each feature a girl and a boy who at some point share the same location and get to look at each other . word exchange and thought be project through voice over and but they too only manage to communicate to the audience merely that one person be attract to another . meaning and there be no seduction ( in the broad sense ) and no tension and and neither confrontation nor communion between the will of two different people try to reconcile their existence to accommodate the other . the only story involve a superficial seduction be tell just so the audience end up be surprise that the guy ( ethan hawke ) get outwit by the girl he hit on and who unexpectedly turn out to be a hooker . sure and his word when try to pick her up be interest to hear and we be amuse a we would be if we be next to them and but there be nothing of substance to this story outside of a then b. so it unfold and if something like a postcard could unfold and with all the other tale a well represent a then b that it and the only point be that these happen to occur on set in manhattan . by the way and the only brooklyn we see be the coney island sketch while the only queen be the flickering of a train ride take by a character travel to the west village . it easy to pick at movie that play into all the common stereotype of race and gender and sexual orientation and and so on . _new york and i love you_ and however and deserve to be hold to stricter scrutiny because of it title . we expect to see the real new york and and real new yorkers and but instead we have parade before u the select slice of a demographic and it character fly in from the o. c. and plus a few others to make it seem a if we be pay attention to diversity . but when we look close at who those character be and the whole sham become an affront to the very notion of diversity and the ethnicity and culture the movie shamefully fail to represent . for example and the story with the latino man with the little white girl in the park and who get mistake by two lady a her manny ( male nanny ) when in fact he the father . notwithstanding the last scene of this part be unnecessary from a dramatic construction point of view ( it would have be far more interesting to end it when the mother and boyfriend or stepfather be strut the girl away ) and it be frankly a bit disgust that the scene where we learn for sure that the girl father be latino also must inform u that he be a sexually desirable dancer . what and the dad can not be just some guy from south america . now that he obviously hot and be the audience well prepare to accept that he have a kid with a middle to upper class white woman . be we that naive a to require such . a if a mexican construction worker would obviously be too unpalatable . it not my place to dictate where the movie should have go . but in every conceivable set up and plot twist and the direction take screams status quo and appeal to safety . all these story could have be make more interesting and even if we be force to keep the single dimensionality of the character inhabit them and at the very least by not choose from standard and obvious stereotype . asian girl living in chinatown be leer at by a scraggly old white guy . how bout an asian cougar pursue a white college kid instead . again and i be not say the entire conceit have to be change . it just that every . damn . story premise . be so hackneyed and thus they fail to convey anything about why one might love new york and outside the trite . the real way to have improve the film would be to have write a script worth read . i will concede the pleasantness of the soundtrack and the good pacing of the movie ( even if what be be pace be and well and dredge ) and and the general feel of many of the scene . the movie be just fine to sit through and and i wouldn not dissuade anyone from do so . however and it be tell that the most significant homage pay to non superficiality be when the old opera singer say ( paraphrase ) that what i love about new york represent everyone from a different place . well and you wouldn not know it from watch this one .