Film Festival 09 - Adventureland
Adventureland
USA 2009, 107m
Director: Greg Mottola
Festivals: Sundance, SXSW 2009
Showing a keen affinity for the embarrassment of his own formative
years, filmmaker Greg Mottola brings back the 80s and makes a
coming-of-age comedy with real feeling. "As in Superbad and The
Daytrippers, director Greg Mottola plows the salted fields of
conventional movieland comedy - in this case that means
hormone-crazed youth, summer jobs, an amusement park - and comes up
with something startlingly fresh and amazingly unstupid. An
absolutely note-perfect rendering of early-80s nowheresville
boredom, great lead performances by Jesse Eisenberg and Kirsten
Stewart (Twilight's Bella) and an irresistible supporting cast of
convincing suburban archetypes. You'll believe you were there - and
quite possibly you were." - Andrew O'Hehir, salon.com. "The 80s, at
least at the time, appeared drenched in irony& It's Mottola's
funny and touching inspiration to look back and see how
unself-conscious the decade now seems." - Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly
www.adventurelandthefilm.com
