DVD Review: "ADVENTURELAND" Score C+

This is a poor man's less funny SUPERBAD ripoff. Actually this is much more of a modern day slacker romantic comedy. I am not sure when this actually happened but a lot of "leading young men" have now become skinny, nerdy, insecure geeks. Which is fine for COMEDIES but in traditional movies its a trend that I hopes goes away soon. Jesse E is nothing more than a repeat of Micheal Cera, same delivery, cadence, and awkwardness. Also I don't see the appeal of Kristin Stewart she seems like she is eternally hungover and depressed not just in the movie but in real life as well. This tale where the lead must take a summer job at a seasonal theme park/carnival (Thus the film title) in order to save for his big move to New York. This virgin lead falls for a co-worker who is sleeping with another married co-worker (unknown to him till later) they date, their goofy nerdy group of co-workers hang out and basically the movie is a slow moving semi-love story between the two leads. Many of the scenes take place around pot smoking which makes you wonder if people are hanging with the lead nerd just to smoke his joints. The movie plays more like an extended after school special. Not my cup of tea and too lame for my tastes.