Post Grad (2009)
Average Rating: 3.5/10
Reviews Counted: 98
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 90
A lightweight, unambitious comedy, Post Grad features fine actors that can do little with its middling, uninspiring script.
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 30
A lightweight, unambitious comedy, Post Grad features fine actors that can do little with its middling, uninspiring script.
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Movie Info
Recent college graduate Ryden Malby (Gilmore Girls star Alexis Bledel) has just survived four years of higher education, but when she's forced to move back into her childhood home, the stress of dealing with her eccentric family, landing a job, and finding the right guy leaves her with precious little time to ponder where her life is truly heading. Shrek and Shark Tale's co-director Vicky Jenson takes the helm for a comedy co-starring Michael Keaton, Carol Burnett, Zach Gilford, and Rodrigo
Aug 21, 2009 Wide
Jan 12, 2010
$6.3M
Fox Searchlight Pictures
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Cast
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Alexis Bledel
Ryden Malby -
Zach Gilford
Adam Davies -
Michael Keaton
Walter Malby -
Jane Lynch
Carmella Malby -
Bobby Coleman
Hunter Malby -
Carol Burnett
Grandma Maureen -
Rodrigo Santoro
David Santiago -
Catherine Reitman
Jessica Bard -
Mary Anne McGarry
Barbara Snaff -
J.K. Simmons
Roy Davies -
Robert Arce
Chancellor -
Jeanie Hackett
Woman at Graduation -
Oscar Dillon
Security Guard -
Vanessa Branch
Receptionist -
Shirley Jordan
Interviewer -
Craig Robinson
Funeral Director -
Michael Grant Terry
College Grad -
Melissa Tang
College Friend #1 -
Brandon Phillips
College Friend #2 -
Parisa Fitz-Henley
College Friend #3 -
Robert Koch
Gary the Buckle Man -
Fred Armisen
Guacanator Pitchman -
Donnie D. Stroud
Manager at the Mint -
Alexandra Holden
Cute Funky Girl -
Angel Oquendo
Police Officer -
Desean Terry
Young Cop -
Andrew Daly
Lloyd Hastings -
Kirk Fox
Buckle-O-Bill -
Anna Khaja
Juanita -
Gino Woulard
Box Car Racer #1 -
Reid Harper
Box Car Racer #2 -
Samantha Epstein
Box Car Racer #3 -
Patrick O'Connor
Landlord -
Dempsey Pappion
Basketball Player
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All Critics (98) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (90) | DVD (3)
Director Vicky Jenson has a sitcom script on her hands and proceeds accordingly.
Top CriticPost-Grad finds Alexis Bledel sinking into the quicksand of typecasting, playing nearly the same role she perfected during seven seasons as the ambitious Rory on Gilmore Girls.
Alexis Bledel plays a Ms. Sunshine who's fresh out of college and unable to find work, and thus -- conveniently for the uninspired makers of this dismayingly conservative dramedy -- she's temporarily bunking back home
Bledel brings a sweet, steady presence, but this sort of minor project is a step backwards. It's high time she graduated on to bigger and better things.
Excessive niceness may be an unfair charge to lob at a movie, but Post Grad is so swaddled in good intentions that it's like taking a very short journey cushioned on all sides by air bags. That are stuffed with cotton candy.
The story that writer Kelly Fremon wants to tell in Post Grad -- recent college grad strikes out at finding a job, moves back home with her wacky family and finds true love -- is pretty tired.
Like festive icing on a plain vanilla cake, a fun cast and offbeat humor hugely increase the palatability of Post Grad.
With a formulaic plot and uninspiring dialogue, not even Mr. Mom can help the film stay afloat.
It acts like the audience knows nothing about how humans behave or find jobs or keep them or have romantic relationships or exist in families.
Director Vicky Jenson has infused Post Grad with all the subtlety and substance of a garden-variety sitcom...
There's certainly a lot of material there but none of the comedy works in any way at all and Keaton is a dead zone at the centre of the film.
Vicky Jenson's attempt at a go-getting romcom is a tragic underachiever on the com front: the rent-a-quirk characters feel like a Little Miss Sunshine tribute act gone wrong.
he try-hard quirkiness and clunky screenwriting starts to grate after just a few minutes. By the final act, it's not unlike having bamboo splinters inserted under your fingernails.
A clumsily scripted, misfiring affair.
The level of humour is summed up by the scene where a dead cat is buried in a pizza box.
This lame family-centric comedy desperately wants to be Little Miss Sunshine but ends up - by virtue of the bizarre cast of unfunny characters - like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
One bland, listless slog.
The film is never flat-out terrible - just thoroughly bland.
While there's little to hate, there's almost nothing to like in a film this anodyne. The jokes aren't funny, the performances are middling and the storyline predictable.
Post Grad is trying to reproduce the wackily dysfunctional manners of family life that made Little Miss Sunshine a hit, but hasn't the charm, the jokes or, significantly, the nerve.
It's not a bad topic for a comedy, especially in the current economic climate, but the film-makers don't have the faintest idea what to do with it.
A badly written, poorly directed and frequently excruciating comedy-drama that squanders both its talented cast and its potentially interesting premise.
A corny script and lifeless direction undermine what could have been a potentially enjoyable coming-of-age film about a young woman who thinks she has her life sorted out. Despite the talented cast, the film can only barely generate a smile.
It's of note chiefly for giving likeable performers not one worthwhile thing to do between them.
...a coming-of-age tableau that is neither inspirational nor uplifting.
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