Adventureland

Adventureland

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Adventureland

Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Ryan Reynolds

A comedy set in the summer of 1987 and centered around a recent college grad (Eisenberg) who takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared f...( read more  read more... )or the real world.

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  • December 6, 2009
    What is the point of this movie? Amusement park comedy melodrama in the 80's?? Really the only good part about this movie are the 80's songs, that's it. The two lead roles, some dude and then Twilight lady, terrible. They didn't even ride rollercoasters in this movie, focusin...( read more)g on the workers at the sideshow games in the park, what kind of shit is that?

    I already reviewed this but I just noticed that 88% of critics liked this movie, saying it was sweet and nostalgic, which is clearly a crock of feces. I don't want to keep bashing on Jesse Eisenberg but he really sucks abnormally large sacks.
  • December 3, 2009
    This looked interesting in the trailer to me..& maybe a bit funny?( plus Ryan Reynolds is in it, always try to see his movies)..well I ended up sitting on the couch starring at the tv. It has its charming moments if I can use that word, not much funny stuff (but then again that o...( read more)ne guy that just shows up & is a ball buster even dad was laughing ?best part was the end all I have to say ?bout time!? dad & I were hysterical! But the end is the only part I think I laughed at. (was it suppose to be a comedy?) C
  • November 23, 2009
    This was a very sweet little movie. I'm not convinced that Kristen Stewart can play more than one emotion yet, but it worked fine for this and all the rest of the cast was quite good. This really caught the feeling of that in-between place of summers around college for me. And wo...( read more)w do I want to play skeeball now.
  • November 17, 2009
    Better than 500 Days of Summer by a mile, Adventureland is an exemplary portrait of two characters who grow and mature right in front of our eyes into likable, complex human beings. Whereas we leave the former movie feeling that Joseph Gordon-Levitt didn't really learn all that m...( read more)uch from his experience (except that women are EVIL omg omg), here Brennan gains a mature understanding of not only human relationships, but the world around him, escaping from a stifling upper middle class bubble. There are no drastic changes in his personality - he still laces his speech with wobbly allusions to Shakespeare and Dickens to seem more intelligent - but he becomes all the more palatable by the end, simply because he's got some life experience under his belt. He doesn't start out as awful, but merely entitled and sort of stuck-up, and Greg Mottola loosens him up with an alarmingly subtle hand. Jesse Eisenberg, likewise, does commendable work here, doing his job like a less obvious Michael Cera.

    Kristen Stewart is also great here. I know the general rule of thumb is to tell everyone she sucks, but I haven't seen her in enough to substantiate this (short of The Messenger, where yes, she is truly bad). Perhaps the casting director is to be thanked for her success in Adventureland, because she slides into the part flawlessly; she's detached, a little bit spiny, and sort of an everywoman. She's a plain, rough, deceptively gifted girl, and both the script and Stewart don't make her charms immediately accessible. Not to keep drawing comparisons, but Zooey Deschanel was such an obvious find right from the start: sexually liberated, cute as a button, and wearing her critically sanctioned good taste in music on her sleeve. When Brennan finally breaks down Em's guard, the resulting relationship feels about a million times more rewarding. She is in no way the cipher that Summer was.

    I should probably commend the movie on its own terms, namely for being a rich, rewarding, subtle romantic comedy for young adults that doesn't vilify either of its characters (The Wackness) but doesn't put them on a pedestal either (500 Days of Summer). The ending left me with a bit of a sour taste in my mouth - it seems too easy, or too convenient at least, for a journey that's been fraught with difficulties - but I guess in the end there's nothing wrong with leaving the theater with a smile on your face. The comedy is generally quiet, which came as a surprise to me, and perhaps not uproarious, but there's a lot of gems to be found here. Kristen Wiig is especially awesome in a limited part as the morbidly depressing wife of Adventureland's owner, and frankly this is the best work Ryan Reynolds has ever done. Not that it was much of a surprise, with his previous benchmark being the goddamn Amityville Horror remake, or maybe The Nines but no one saw that.
  • November 3, 2009
    On my first viewing, I thought ADVENTURELAND was a solid and original teen film. Upon my second viewing, I thought it was a lot more than that and easily one of the year's best aswell as one of the more underrated films of 2009.
  • January 6, 2010
    Perfectly captures youth in the '80s, the best decade for music. Extraordinary acting from the entire cast. Hilarious script. The best film of '09. 10/10
  • January 6, 2010
    It was ok to watch but I probably won't watch it again unless I have to, for some reason I was expecting a lot more, aspecialy from Kristen Stewart!
  • January 6, 2010
    Kristen Stewart gatinha.
  • January 6, 2010
    This was a pretty good movie. It moved a little slow at times, but I thought the characters were really good. You could connect with them. There are some totally awkward scenes, but also a few laughs here and there. Not the greatest movie ever, but its worth watching.
  • January 6, 2010
    I absolutely adore this film. Greg Mottola did a wonderful job directing this very underrated movie that is somewhat overshadowed by it's big brother, 'Superbad'. Filled with nostalgia and summer love; this is a movie that you will want to watch over again after it's finished.

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