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List Price: $29.99 | | Label: Miramax
Salesrank: 1246
Released: August 25, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 08/25/2009 Run time: 107 minutes Rating: R
Description of Adventureland:
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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Adventureland Reviews:
A solid 5 star movie with real substance 
2009-11-29 -
This is the film Kristen Stewart was shooting when first approached about "Twilight."
Those expecting a comedy may feel short changed. Comic elements surround a bittersweet but ultimately satisfying core story and prevent it from getting too dark.
This is writer/director Greg Mottolo's reminiscence about a summer job in 1985.
Jesse Eisenberg ("James") and Kristen Stewart ("Em") have a lot in common. Both are out of high school and attending college in the fall. They meet as summer employees at an amusement park and are drawn to each other, but things are not all that they appear. He's a virgin, and she's not ... and there's a car crash there waiting to happen.
Roger Ebert wrote: "What surprised me was how much I admired Kristen Stewart, who in "Twilight," was playing below her grade level. Here is an actress ready to do important things. Together [with Eisenberg] and with the others, they make "Adventureland" more real and more touching than it may sound."
Take his word for it.
Kristen Stewart's "Em" comes alive as a real person you won't soon forget.
Don't expect laughs -- expect to be deeply moved.
This movie is honest and sincere, with real substance.
horrible 
2009-11-22 - I lack the education needed to effectively tell you how bad this movie is. Save your time and energy and definately dont buy it.
One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
2009-11-13 - Sometimes people see things differently.
My sister recommended this film to me. I watched it and didn't get it. At All. But she loves it and I love her so I bought it for her. It just made her day. I am thrilled that I got it for her.
Everyone's happy.
surprisingly good 
2009-11-11 - 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. i was not dissapointed the movie was highly enjoyable with some strong acting. i recomend the film for its slight comedic apeal and also for the drama, its not a big comedy, the comedy is there but its not the main focus of the story, so i would recomend this film to anyone thinking that maybe it looks good
Boring
2009-11-10 - After half an hour, I just couldn't take any more. This is really boring.
