Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Youth in Revolt - Don't bother Posted by Jessica at 7:05 PM

No spoilers....

I went out and rented this as soon as it was available through Redbox as I expected it to be rather hilarious. While I am a Michael Cera fan (though Paper Heart was not great) I loved him in Juno - this movie left much to be desired. He had his moments as did the script with some rather funny awkward teen embarrassment type moments. Zach Galifianakas was pretty funny in the movie (though not nearly as hilarious as he was in The Hangover) but he was only in the first 20 minutes or so! Steve Buscemi who I also really like had a rather small part as the father and was not all that amusing.

The trailer left me with the thought that Nick (Michael Cera) was going to be his geeky self but then try to impress this girl by becoming a french man - as in I thought he literally was going to fool her into thinking in he was french and a completely different person! This was not the case. It was more of a he was seeing the french guy in his head. I don't know it was weird.

The whole movie seemed like a bit of an over extreme situation for a guy to impress a girl but maybe I am looking to deep into a comedic movie. Either way I am not the pickiest person in the world and I still say don't bother there are way more amusing movies out there! For instance (although no very PC) The Hangover was pretty darn hilarious! Get that one instead!