While listening to a radio interview with Adventureland's director Greg Mottola, his enthusiasm about making this movie was so endearing I decided to watch. Greg, I feel played.
It's supposed to be a comedy set in 1987 about a guy who is forced to abandon his plans of a touring Europe before heading off to college and take up a job at an amusement park for the summer instead. Unfortunately pretty much all the funny parts are in the trailer and they're provided by Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig. While highly entertaining, Hader and Wiig seem to be in a different movie than everyone else. Everyone else is in a movie about disappointment and people using other people. Hader and Wiig are in a movie about a wacky, run-down amusement park.
The other actors in it, namely Jesse Eisenberg as the lead, Kristen Stewart as the co-worker on whom he develops a crush, and Ryan Reynolds as the amusement park's handyman, all do fine. Mottola's crew did a great job with the set they made out of the real Kennywood Park. But in the end, it's just not an appealing story and it's definitely not what the poster makes you think you're going to watch.
Rating: 2/5
Recommended for: People nostalgic about working in an amusement park
It's supposed to be a comedy set in 1987 about a guy who is forced to abandon his plans of a touring Europe before heading off to college and take up a job at an amusement park for the summer instead. Unfortunately pretty much all the funny parts are in the trailer and they're provided by Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig. While highly entertaining, Hader and Wiig seem to be in a different movie than everyone else. Everyone else is in a movie about disappointment and people using other people. Hader and Wiig are in a movie about a wacky, run-down amusement park.
The other actors in it, namely Jesse Eisenberg as the lead, Kristen Stewart as the co-worker on whom he develops a crush, and Ryan Reynolds as the amusement park's handyman, all do fine. Mottola's crew did a great job with the set they made out of the real Kennywood Park. But in the end, it's just not an appealing story and it's definitely not what the poster makes you think you're going to watch.
Rating: 2/5
Recommended for: People nostalgic about working in an amusement park
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