Rachael MurphyAdventureland
October 14th 2009 13:12
Adventureland is the story of James Brennan's (Jesse Eisenberg) summer of 87'. He is about to start grad. school in New York city but first he is going to head on the trip of a lifetime to Europe to see the sights. Then his dad loses his job. When that happens that money that was supposed to pay for the trip and accommodation when he got to NYC dries up and he is forced to get a job. The only place in town that will take him his the theme park Adventureland. That is when the summer begins.
Anyway about the movie. It is a slow moving film about one of those crappy summer jobs that everybody has had, for some people it last a lot longer than a summer. It is that job that you have to do because you are in college and you need to make some money and it has to fit into your schedule. In James' case though it is a job where he can spend most of his time sitting around and reading. His whole attitude to the job is something I could connect with. I remember that jobs very well and that attitude. It is actually a really funny movie. This is the sort of thing that brings me back to comedies when romcoms have pushed me away. The comedy is subtle and human. There are darker moments too which places the movie in a real life situation so that the part that are over the top can be funny without taking your mind of the action.
The cast in this movie are great I have heard Jesse Eisenberg being called the cheap Michael Cera which I think is a little unfair to his own acting ability. The character here is fairly similar to Cera's Evan in Superbad but it is just a 'nervous guy' style I think. It works for them both anyway. Kirsten Stuart also, who plays Emily the love interest, proved much better than I thought she was going to be. Still not the happy go lucky character but different enough from Bella in Twilight that it shows she has range.
Adventureland has moved lists. It is now on the liast of movies I will but when it comes out on DVD.
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