Adventureland

Coming from the director of Superbad, Greg Mottola is Adventureland. The movie takes place in Pittsburgh in 1987 as it follows the post-college shortcomings of James Brennan (played by Jesse Eisenberg, who is possibly the new Michael Cera type, and who will be seen in Zombieland this fall). He had planned for a trip to Europe for his graduation present, but his Dad's job was transferred, thus ending said trip. All his financial setbacks force James to take a summer job at the local amusement park, Adventureland. This obviously isn't what James had had in mind but little does he know that what started out as his worst summer to date could actually turn out to be the most transformative.

Being that this is from the director of Superbad, I thought there was going to be a plethora of f-bombs and just gross-out joke after gross-out joke. Not that I don't enjoy that kind of thing, but this movie really wasn't that at all. It really was more down the line of a drama. I was really impressed by Eisenberg, being that this was the first movie that I had seen with him in it. He is the next Michael Cera, but he has a little more witty and intellectual with his delivery, whereas Cera is just random and shy with his. This movie also stars Kristen Stewart, from the Twilight series. She does a very nice job playing Em, the love interest of James. This relatively unknown cast all does a pretty good job and really makes this a watchable drama. I was a little disappointed because there weren't as many laughs as I thought. Also, the guy from the Cingular commercials, who is always fighting with his mom about rollover minutes and such, was also in this film (Matt Bush). I don't like that guy.

Rating: 3 out of 4 stars Out on 8/25 on dvd Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xykI3kkM9l4