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Post Grad (2009)

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7

Average Rating: 3.5/10
Reviews Counted: 96
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 89

A lightweight, unambitious comedy, Post Grad features fine actors that can do little with its middling, uninspiring script.

6

Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 29

A lightweight, unambitious comedy, Post Grad features fine actors that can do little with its middling, uninspiring script.

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30

liked it
Average Rating: 2.7/5
User Ratings: 187,752

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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

PG-13,

Comedy

Kelly Fremon

Jan 12, 2010

$6.3M

Fox Searchlight Pictures

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All Critics (97) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (89) | DVD (3)

Post-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.

August 28, 2009 Full Review Source: Salon.com
Salon.com
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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

August 21, 2009 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
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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.

August 21, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Daily News
New York Daily News
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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.

August 21, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Post
New York Post
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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.

August 21, 2009 Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger
Newark Star-Ledger
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Post Grad is an annoying, tedious little film that touts a young woman's desire to fulfill her dreams, at least until she drops them and everything else and runs across the country to follow a boy.

August 21, 2009 Full Review Source: Miami Herald
Miami Herald
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Director Vicky Jenson has infused Post Grad with all the subtlety and substance of a garden-variety sitcom...

February 12, 2011 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
Reel Film Reviews

Gilmore Girl stars in upbeat, teen-friendly comedy.

January 11, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

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.

January 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]
Guardian [UK]

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.

January 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph

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.

January 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Times [UK]
Times [UK]

A clumsily scripted, misfiring affair.

January 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Observer [UK]
Observer [UK]

The level of humour is summed up by the scene where a dead cat is buried in a pizza box.

January 5, 2010
Heat Magazine

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.

January 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Sky Movies
Sky Movies

One bland, listless slog.

January 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Total Film
Total Film

The film is never flat-out terrible - just thoroughly bland.

January 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Radio Times
Radio Times

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.

January 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK]
Daily Mirror [UK]

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.

January 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Independent

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.

January 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Independent on Sunday
Independent on Sunday

A badly written, poorly directed and frequently excruciating comedy-drama that squanders both its talented cast and its potentially interesting premise.

January 5, 2010 Full Review Source: ViewLondon
ViewLondon

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.

January 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall
Shadows on the Wall

It's of note chiefly for giving likeable performers not one worthwhile thing to do between them.

January 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Scotsman
Scotsman

...a coming-of-age tableau that is neither inspirational nor uplifting.

December 6, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinemalogue.com
Cinemalogue.com

Audience Reviews for Post Grad

A bland concoction on the surface about the difficulty of life after the certainty of college (hence the title), noticeably buoyed by the much-better-than-the-material cast. But even their efforts fail to raise much interest in the sugarcoated Disney-esque proceedings.
September 9, 2012
UniversalDreamer

Super Reviewer

Meager comedy
April 17, 2010
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jay nixon

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