Adventureland

< Previous Trailer  |   Add to My Scrapbook  |   Next Trailer >
Adventureland

55% Liked It
liked it

Adventureland

Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Ryan Reynolds, Martin Starr, Matt Bush, Paige Howard, Dan Bittner, Jack Gilpin, Wendie Malick

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.

Id: 10991350

Do you want to see this movie?

My Friends Said...

Adventureland Recent Reviews

Register or sign-in to see your friends' reviews !

Recent Reviews

Adventureland Recent Reviews
  • Chiefilms
    December 6, 2009
    Chiefilms
    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.
  • sykora259517
    December 3, 2009
    sykora259517
    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
  • Julie
    November 23, 2009
    Julie
    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.
  • ceWEBrity
    November 17, 2009
    ceWEBrity
    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.
  • YLOWBSTARDreturns
    November 3, 2009
    YLOWBSTARDreturns
    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.
  • pantalla9
    December 5, 2009
    pantalla9
    No he visto Superbad, anterior largometraje del realizador Greg Mottola. Al menos, por lo que pude ver en el trailer, es que los terrenos en los que gusta moverse temáticamente es la comedia juvenil, sobre el complicado proceso de chicos que están a punto de pasar de la adolescen...( read more)cia a la madurez. Lo asumo así, porque Adventureland (2009) trata precisamente de eso, un retrato sobre un chico preocupado por obtener su independencia del nido familiar, encontrar una universidad, escoger una carrera y un trabajo veraniego.

    El protagonista, es el clásico chico nerd, nada agraciado, inseguro y torpe, James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg), quien sueña con ser periodista. A pesar de ser inteligente y con mucho talento, con un currículum que incluye mucha experiencia en actividades escolares, James solamente consigue trabajo en un parque de diversiones de quinta categoría, llamado precisamente ?Adventureland?. La historia avanza a pasos predecibles. El parque es el escenario perfecto para que James encuentre el amor, con una chica rebelde, llena de conflictos emocionales y aficionada al alcohol, Em, interpretada por Kristen Stewart (los distribuidores no pudieron haber elegido mejor momento para estrenar este filme, el mismo día que New Moon, también protagonizada por Kristen Stewart), quien ya debe saberse de memoria esta clase de personajes. Kristen luce tan natural en su personaje, que parece difícil imaginar que haya realizado algún ensayo previo.
    Adventureland tal vez sea más disfrutable para nostálgicos de la época. Por lo demás, su trama no tiene mayor complicación y avanza a paso más que seguro, poblada de drogas, alcohol y? vómito. El triángulo emocional-romántico no tarda en formarse entre James, Em y un tipo mucho mayor que ella (Ryan Reynolds), con quien está teniendo una relación. Es una película que forma parte de ese nuevo género de comedias que intentan hacer un retrato real y sin tapujos sobre la juventud, aunque esté ubicada más de 20 años atrás. Podremos esperar diálogos y bromas sexuales, así como mucha mariguana. Si bien me pareció una comedia pasable y visible, con todo y sus citas a Dickens, Herman Melville y Nicolai Gogol, no me pareció la gran película sobre jóvenes y sus problemas existenciales que pudo haber sido.
    Más en pantallanueve.blogspot.com
  • closedmouth
    December 4, 2009
    closedmouth
    Enjoyable and affecting, Mottola is a talented writer, he surprised me with this. I was expecting...well, I'm not sure what I was expecting, but considering his lame handling of Superbad, it certainly wasn't something as subtle, emotionally complex and sharply observed as this wa...( read more)s. Which is not to say it's perfect, of course; it's downright pretentious and irritating at times, especially Eisenberg's character, but when it works, it really works, and I enjoyed it rather a lot.
  • MizasterJ
    December 3, 2009
    MizasterJ
    No sir, I didnt like it.
  • SupErSwaNkNerD
    December 2, 2009
    SupErSwaNkNerD
    It was decent, and it had it's own weird humor, but things could definitely have been better, like Kristen's acting..
  • lovedjay
    December 2, 2009
    lovedjay
    There is much, much, much to love about this impressive little package. Its the perfect antidote to "that other" film Stewart is in this year. Cynicism aside, its still just an awesome movie that trades-in the bells and whistles for simple, easy-going laughs with a dash of believ...( read more)eable teen romance. Impressive.
View All Reviews

Opening This Week

Top Box Office

Upcoming Movies

New on DVD