Nicely grounding comedy sporting the classic boy-to-man-emotional-growth-arc that has become the stock and trade of the Apatow Industrial Entertainment Complex (I say this as a devoted fan of the Apatow Industrial Entertainment Complex). Ably helmed by Superbad director Greg Mottola, story concerns James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg), forced by economic circumstance to spend the summer after college graduation working at Pittsburg amusement park Adventurland. This isn’t all bad because it provides, well the humor and setting for the movie, and allows James to meet Em (the already ubiquities but appealing Kristen Stewart) and fall in love. You know I really liked this couple, they seemed real and relatable, I sincerely wanted them to get together, and not in the forced way your suppose to in most romantic comedies. They have real problems (Stewart gets to show she‘s a good little actress with a well handled and developed emotional arc of some complexity), but their good people and you wish them success.
Film also offers some sure bets in the comedy part of its dramady. Martin Starr, who I want to become a breakout star so bad, finally gets sufficient screen time in a movie, pluse you’ve got two of the most talented players from the current incarnation of Saturday Night Live as the parks oddly low-key husband and wife owners (Bill Hedar and Kristin Wigg, that latter doing that dead pan thing she does so well). Plus 1987 setting equals cool music and references to Reagan and Apartheid, and working job your over qualified for refrences my current state of existence. So Kudos all around. 4 out of 5. Somehow I continue like Ryan Reynolds on screen, while suspecting that I would not like him off it.
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