If not for the soundtrack, this film would have had absolutely no substance, (even that, it abused). Without some of the music, I certainly would not have watched it all, & I NEVER turn off a film; my mind is too open. Is this how you want/ed to come of age? Loser! Coming of age films are generally bad; very bad ideas based on the worst aspects of US culture. And this was probably the worst coming of age film that exists. Of course people adore it - it's dressed up as everything it's not. Are you really that simple? The boring premise that yet another "nerdy" kid is oh so good, even his flaws are adorable (NOT), while everyone else around is either a lackey or more profoundly flawed. I have Jewish blood, mother's side too, and as a young idealist, I took offense when Marlon Brando made his famous Jews in Hollywood criticism. (NB. I took offense as an anti-racist, not due to some weak blood connection). It's not that I'm not an idealist any more; it's just that I've gradually seen more & more of the trash that gets made due to extremely indulgent, PSEUDO (or worse)/ NOT intellectual Jews, parading the most irritating affectations AND LAME STEREOTYPES, known to man, (at least to god-damned BOURGEOIS man). This film was the most irritating, sometimes painful, I can remember. Write me off as a racist, pseudo-intellectuals always do, (in general that is, not particularly w/ me, doofus). I almost never go on rants about Jews, but let's face it; in Hollywood a Jew needs less notions of the real world, less humour and less intellect to "stun the masses" - using tired tricks (as this film is full of) and the broad ($/ publicity) media support, which this film absolutely undeserved. Saying nothing of the HORRIBLE, lead "actors". That Twilight chick is the least attractive of all, current babes in the spotlight. She is a TERRIBLE actress; the same, lame affectations in front of vampires as in this movie, as in EVERY screen moment she ruins. Most of you are unaware, but she is there because Hollywood must always have its whiter than white people, to encourage the world to . . . well, be whiter. That may wash in Twilight, but is far less credible & far more unattractive, here. And he really is a pathetic, tenth rate Michael Cera, (Cera's affectation IS reasonable & slightly agreeable), yet this snivelling Jew, once again . . . I cannot hold my tongue because he is there (heard of nepotism? looking after your own?), this film exists, it gets funding and lots of money to "propagate", solely due to Hollywood's unbalanced, Jew bias. I'm sorry, but being Jewish, I understood only too well, the manipulative and not so smart, purported intellect that this nasty film utilised. There are many intelligent writers, actors, Producers, etc., and many of those are Jewish too. However, none of them seemed to be working on this waste of film, time and space. (One exception and NOTE, the biggest dick in the film - at least at the end with the 'shed a light on love' joke, Ryan Reynolds was also the stand-out actor, DESPITE such a crap role). Oh yeah, "jokes"; the timing and scripting was horrendous throughout - NOT ONE MOMENT HIT A BEAT in 100-something minutes!!. Funny? I laughed 2 or 3 times and only because I WANTED to enjoy it, I really did. Maybe not the worst film ever, but certainly the very worst of its genre or type. PS. on the positive side; it makes me appreciate Michael Cera & his films a whole lot more.
Review of Adventureland
