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Adventureland (2009)

Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart Director: Greg Mottola Rating: Unrated Format: DVD
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A sweet and slap-happy mix of indie coming-of-age drama and Judd Apatow’s scatological but heartfelt manchild comedies, Greg Mottola’s Adventureland is a winning look at the pleasures and frustrations of dead-end jobs and teenage kicks as viewed through a filter of mid-‘80s pop culture. The underutilized and always watchable Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale) is a sheltered, introspective New York college grad who discovers that his parents’ financial woes will not only quash his dream of a summer in Europe (to enjoy its more “sexually permissive” nations) but require a move to Pittsburgh, where he lands a job at a dilapidated amusement park. There, he’s thrown in with a motley crew of eccentrics, small-town types and a few genuine free spirits, most notably co-worker Em (Kristen Stewart), whose complicated past proves irresistible to his repressed psyche. Mottola, who directed Superbad and episodes of the well-loved Freaks and Geeks, and who once worked in a similar park as a teen, doesn’t shy from the crude laughs that make Apatow’s features so popular, but he tempers it with a wistful tone and layered characters that hew closer to his earliest work, The Daytrippers. Though ill-matched at first, Eisenberg and Stewart make a likable on-screen couple, and they’re well-supported by a terrific cast that includes such die-hard scene-stealers as Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig as the park’s offbeat owners, Martin Starr as a Russian lit aficionado, and Ryan Reynolds as a former town tamer, now reduced to working as the park’s handyman. A soundtrack performed by underground faves Yo La Tengo and filled with a smart mix of hip cuts (Hüsker Dü, the New York Dolls, the Replacements) and period faves (Falco’s “Rock Me Amadeus”) underscores the film’s blend of tentative emotions and broad laughs. -- Paul Gaita

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Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 08/25/2009 Run time: 107 minutes Rating: R

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32 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Despite its terrible advertising campaign, this is a genuinely great film!, April 10, 2009
This review is from: Adventureland [Theatrical Release] (Theatrical Release)
I got to see this film at a sneak preview. I got free tickets at an 80's club I frequent. I only had a mild interest in seeing this film when I saw the trailers. In other words, this one was going to be one to wait for on dvd. Free is free, and I went with a tribe of folks on a Wednesday night.

To my surprise, this was a really sweet, funny, well-acted, and truly great film. Yes, this is a film, not some flash-in-the-pan, cash in on the youth market, gross out comedy. Sure, it has elements of that too, but they're more subdued and the humor is less broad and more sublte. It's basically about characters you already know or have met in your life. It takes place in the 80's and it's basica plot involves the horror any 20-something would face during a recession, getting a really crappy summer job!

The real revelation I found with this film came in the form of Kristen Stewart. She's the real deal. I had seen her in Twilight recently and found everything anyone did in that film to be hollow. Here, she really shows her acting chops playing a confused youth afraid of the unknown. Jesse Eisenberg is the main character in the film, and I expected nothing but greatness from him, I previously saw him in the brilliant The Squid and the Whale. He is a very talented young actor who I expect to see a lot more from in the future.

The film has all the details of a youth summer job that sucks pegged. Everything from the one hot-chick that everyone wants, the low-rent customers, the over-zealous and possibly dellusional bosses, and on-job romance. It's all done with genuine emotion and situations. Nothing feels contrived or forced. Characters make mistaks and things go wrong, but there are no moments of the characters becoming overwrought and giving prefunctory speeches regarding the film's main themes. This is really well written.

I must warn all the video game obsessed, vapid, youth drones about what they're getting with this film. It has real characters, and a believable situation. It's a hang-out picture. You just spend time getting to know a particular group of characters who share the same crappy theme park summer job. There is no contrived plot devices, like switched or confused identities, no one is masquarading as one of the opposite sex, no plot devices to keep a false narrative going, and no gags just stuck in the film like an overlong action sequence to get yucks. Yes, the kids get wasted and high, but it has more to do with them coping with their boredom, and it also helps lead to their bonding.

The film manages to be honestly touching as well, something I really didn't expect from this piece. It was made by the same director of Super Bad, a really brilliant and funny youth comedy, but it is nothing like it. It's not as great, but its not going for the same thing. The humor comes from character and honest situations and not from over-blown comic situations just set up for the yucks.

If this film would've been advertised differently, I would've paid to see it.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Bittersweet coming-of-age in the 1980s -- one of 2009's best yet, April 8, 2009
This review is from: Adventureland [Theatrical Release] (Theatrical Release)
Recommended for a great cast, unique setting & memorable characters, and a well-written script, this movie will particularly appeal to those who grew up during the 1980s. But "Adventureland" is still timeless enough to please a broader audience.

Mismarketed as a wild comedy follow-up to "Superbad", this small-scale mini-wonder is a perfect date film, but also a great ride through young adulthood.

The story is both poignant and comic, and the cast is uniformly excellent throughout. Special acting honors go to Kristen Stewart, whose understated and tender performance was exceptionally moving to me (although she may be obviously gay, her straight-girl role is believable, and although I'd never heard of her before, I will be exploring every other film she's in, simply on the basis of this role). I can't say enough about her performance here, and she's going to be a major actress in years to come.

Almost every note of the script rang true to me until the final ten minutes, which were a conventional happy Hollywood ending that probably wouldn't have happened in real-life. But I can't fault the coming-of-age story for needing such a denouement, even if it was largely wish-fulfillment. And so, for Greg Mottola's script & direction, and for Kristen Stewart, five stars. A keeper.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Really Great!, April 3, 2009
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This movie is different from your typical teen sex comedy movie such as superbad or american pie. The actors deliver a great preformance. It has its funny moments and its sweet moments and over is a really good movie that you wont want to miss!
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5.0 out of 5 stars One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
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My sister recommended this film to me. I watched it and didn't get it. At All. Read more
Published 23 hours ago by Sandy Cruz

4.0 out of 5 stars surprisingly good
i bought this dvd after seeing the previews for it, i didnt get a chance to see it at the cinema and was looking forward to the dvd release. Read more
Published 2 days ago by Bm Ciardini

1.0 out of 5 stars Boring
After half an hour, I just couldn't take any more. This is really boring.
Published 4 days ago by William A. Jackson

4.0 out of 5 stars Can't Go Wrong With the 'Mats on the Soundtrack
Give props to writer-director Greg Mottola for not repeating himself. The temptation must have been great to copy "Superbad" but "Adventureland" is a completely different animal... Read more
Published 6 days ago by David Baldwin

1.0 out of 5 stars Comedy?
The only thing from the 80's this movie has, is the soundtrack. As a matter of fact, why the heck did the film makers decided to make it a period piece is beyond me. Read more
Published 10 days ago by Tom C.

4.0 out of 5 stars Mismarketed but very enjoyable
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An endearing coming of age drama/slight comedy with Jesse Eisenberg in top form as Jesse Eisenberg, Adventureland is not the Superbad-like comedy... Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars A Nostalgic Look at the Eighties in a Meandering Coming-of-Age Romance
I worked in food service at Marriott's Great America theme park when I was just out of high school, so I can well imagine how the young protagonist of director/screenwriter Greg... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars An incorrectlymarketed adventure
So, I first saw this movie in theaters the weekend it came out. I was pretty excited because I was a huge Superbad fan, and this movie was marketed as "From the Director of... Read more
Published 28 days ago by C. Crofford

2.0 out of 5 stars Weak. Weaker. Weakest.
This could be the lamest "coming of age" film I've ever seen. Neither the characters nor their relationships are credible in the slightest. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Jerry P. Danzig

4.0 out of 5 stars No more Falco please!
I mean it. The song "Rock me Amadeus" by Falco gets played several times. I couldn't stand the song back in the 80's and I still can't stand it now. Read more
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