Movie #560 ........................."Young Adult"

Movie #560 "Young Adult" was crap! I went with Dave and alum Deb Hoffman, and we all felt the same, so it's not just me. I feel so strongly about how bad this movie is that my mission now is to tell everyone possible that this is NOT WORTH SEEING AT ALL! There is really nothing redeeming about this. I've never really given a zero to a movie, but I thought twice about doing it for this one --- but it can't be the worst film I've seen, can it? No, but it comes close. I guess if I listed what was bad about it, I'd convince you not to see it and that the critics are wrong on this one. I would then feel better about seeing it, thus the redeeming value would come in the film critiquing and not the film watching. So here goes. 1) Charlize Theron, though a very good actress, doesn't bring it home in this one --- she crosses the line from depressing, psychotic bitch to crazy stalker who should be hospitalized --- not funny. Compare this "acting" job to Kristin Wiig's in "Bridesmaids" and you'd see that Wiig was able to accomplish a tough task --- to take a depressing psychotic bitch on a journey to something better, and make her endearing on the way. 2) the script is drivel -----the pacing is so slow I could have baked a cake or emptied the dryer and come back to watching and still not missed anything important 3) everyone is mean in the film, pretty much --- compare that to a far better film "Mean Girls" where you have the same type of meanness, and you can see what could have been done in better hands 4) the music is repetitive and drivel, too 5) the character does not go through any major change and thus redeem the film ----- i.e. the ending sucks! sorry for the language but that's true. I don't care how many "chances" this director is taking to be "different" in a so-called comedy (which really isn't a comedy because we don't find psychotic bitchy alcoholics who are really mentally ill and need help to be funny). To have redeeming qualities a film needs to DO something --- teach us, change our minds about something, make us laugh or cry, something! This does nothing. So don't bother. What makes this experience worse is that I trusted the critics, Charlize Theron, and the director (who did an amazing job with "Up in the Air") -- and they were all wrong! That doesn't usually happen. so thus the 1.

P.S. kudos to the Rattatouille guy --- and with the lines he was given. oh my. He has to constantly tell her how mean she is (as if we don't know that?) or that she's been drinking too much? (ditto) and then after he hasn't been in the previous scene, he has to ask her what happened (after we have seen it and then we have to sit through her retelling what we just saw). Bake a cake or do laundry instead. anything to prevent seeing this mess!




I give it 1 star and that's being generous out of 5.
Young Adult
(2011) R
Taken aback when she receives a letter from an old boyfriend announcing that he's just had a baby with his wife, divorced fiction writer Mavis Gary decides to return to her small hometown and reconnect with her former lover.
Genre:Comedies, Independent Movies, Dark Comedies, Independent Comedies
This movie is:Dark, Witty