Adventureland of Fail.

So, I watched "Adventureland" today, and per usual, I suffer so you may all avoid the same fate.
Some of your friends may tell you that it's a good movie.

These are Not your friends. They are crazy goddamn aliens in your friend's body's.

Do not trust these pod-people, they lie.

The movie was awful, in every way.
Even Ryan Reynolds couldn't save that movie, in fact they wrote his character so poorly that it actually made the movie worse for having to watch him act so poorly.

The only highlights from the movie are the scenes with Bill Hader, and you saw all of those in the commercials.

Basic plot rundown:
The year is 1979, James, our douchebag "Im so awkwardly successful" main character just finished up his under-grad, and is now in the summer before grad school. He had planned to go to europe with his buddy before moving to New York, but his dad gets demoted at work and the family can no longer afford his trip, nor college, so he goes to work at the local seasonal theme park where he meets the rest of the characters.

Now a couple things to clarify:
1- James (Jesse Eisenberg) is actually playing the part of Michael Cera. If you've seen "Superbad", it's the same goddamn character. And guess what? both movies were directed by the same douche.
2- The entire group dynamic is exactly the same as "Waiting" also with Ryan Reynolds, however Reynolds was funny in that one.

That being said, the movie progresses with James getting involved with Emily (Kristen Stewart) who is in turn involved with Connel (Reynolds). This horrifying love triangle continues for most of the movie until absolutely everything goes wrong, Em runs to New York, and James eventually follows her and apologizes even though she was entirely to blame for all of his problems. At this point in the movie, everyone's life is significantly more fucked than they were at the beginning of the film, and the only improvement is that James is no longer a virgin.

The whole movie was yet another cluster-fuck piece of garbage where the writer proclaims "Isn't this specific piece of American coming-of-age entirely different from the other 30 American coming-of-age stories that came out in the last 2 years?!?!"

Seriously, I can give you the short list now:
Nick and Norah's infinite playlist
Superbad
Twilight
4 months, 3 weeks, & 2 days
Be kind, rewind
A complete history of my sexual failures
Juno

And those are just the obvious ones.

All of these movies have the same bullshit premise: "Im your average everyday normal American, and a rather statistically normal event happens to me, and I feel my normal adaptation to these normal problems is somehow worthy of a movie."

Seriously? Wtf? Juno= Teenage pregnancy. So common it's not even funny.
Adventureland= tight finances causing younger members of a family to need to get a summer job.

None of these things are at all surprising and they are all beyond cliche'.

Do yourself a favor, skip this piece of hollywood crap. If you actually watch it, you'll want those 100 minutes of your life back.