Youth in Revolt (2010)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 162
Fresh: 107 | Rotten: 55
It may not entirely do its source material justice, but Miguel Arteta's Youth in Revolt is a fun, funny comic romp that lets Michael Cera stretch a little and introduces filmgoers to a major find in Portia Doubleday.
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 11
It may not entirely do its source material justice, but Miguel Arteta's Youth in Revolt is a fun, funny comic romp that lets Michael Cera stretch a little and introduces filmgoers to a major find in Portia Doubleday.
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Movie Info
Superbad's Michael Cera discovers a vacation romance in Youth in Revolt, a teen comedy from Charlie Bartlett's screenwriter, Gustin Nash, and director Miguel Arteta (Chuck & Buck). The film is an adaptation of C.D. Payne's first book in a series of best-selling satirical novels starring Nick Twisp, a sexually charged 14-year-old whose intelligence and hormones get him into all sorts of adventures. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
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Cast
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Michael Cera
Nick Twisp/Francois -
Portia Doubleday
Sheeni Saunders -
Jean Smart
Estelle Twisp -
Zach Galifianakis
Jerry -
Erik Knudsen
Lefty -
Adhir Kalyan
Vijay Joshi -
Steve Buscemi
George Twisp -
Fred Willard
Mr. Ferguon -
Ari Graynor
Lacey -
Ray Liotta
Lance Wescott -
Justin Long
Paul Saunders -
Rooney Mara
Taggerty -
Jade Fusco
Bernice Lynch -
Lisa Lacasse
Matron -
M. Emmet Walsh
Mr. Saunders -
Mary Kay Place
Mrs. Saunders -
Jonathan Bradford Wright
Trent -
Michael Collins
Old Man -
Greg Anderson
Sailor #1 -
Connell Brown
Sailor #2 -
Randy Godwin
Officer #1 -
Tony Fanning
Officer #2 -
Oscar the Dog
Albert -
Francine Roussel
Headmistress -
Chuy Chávez
Illegal Immigrant #1 -
Miguel Arteta
Illegal Immigrant #2 -
Bruce Lawson
Officer A. Fanning -
Sudhi Rajagopal
Officer T. Cahill -
Roz Music
Store Clerk -
Christa B. Allen
Teenage Girl -
Trevor Duke
Jock Guy -
Joann Fregalette Jansen
Sheeni Consultant -
Arnaud Crowther
French Student #1 -
Danielle Nicole Czirmer
French Student #2
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All Critics (162) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (107) | Rotten (55) | DVD (5)
The tone throughout is moderately quirky rather than full-on teen-flick vulgarian, bolstered by indie-cred cameos.
Top CriticI love this new breed of dirty movie. It goes beyond leering, beyond sexism, to the core tension of a culture that ricochets between Puritanism and promiscuity. And it has in Michael Cera a sterling mascot.
A clever and often riotous burst of cynicism that pushes, let's face it, some pretty questionable ideas.
Cera may be trapped in his unchanging persona, but no more than this picture is walled in by its sitcom conventions.
Youth in Revolt is a teen fantasy filled with lust, imagination, frustration and lots of laughs, artfully made and superbly played.
A sweet and slight and often charming coming-of-age tale.
An uneven story and crass comedy could leave viewers revolted.
Michael Cera adopts a mischievous alter ego in an attempt to reunite with his dream girl in a familiarly peculiar story.
Playing on feelings and impulses that I'm sure we all relate to, a witty and playful portrait of teen love emerges out of a less exciting teen comedy.
Nick Twisp is no Scott Pilgrim, but this is another witty ensemble comedy that successfully reinvigorates that most benighted of genres, the teen film.
Story of "bad-boy" teen is funny, but also rough and raw.
Arteta's faithfulness to Payne's text, themes and visions never gel as a wholly satisfying film.
...an engaging and faithful adaptation of Payne's admittedly superior novel.
Michael Cera goes to the sweet-tempered high school persona well once (or twice) too often with, sigh, Nick Twisp, who lives in hormonal agony with his sex-obsessed divorced mother (Jean Smart) and her nasty boyfriend.
[Its] classic cinema shoutouts and gaggle of off-kilter characters feel like retreads.
Deviates from the teen comedy norm and becomes something darker, edgier, and more unexpectedly funny.
Makes early claims for the best comedy of 2010.
Cera's hilarious performance as a modern day Holden Caulfield makes Youth in Revolt a must-see for any fan of hipster comedies.
In an irreverent and adorable coming-to-maturity story, Michael Cera displays versatility in a dual role.
When Francois Dillinger is on screen, the movie comes alive...the rest of the time it's that post-Napoleon Dynamite sort of plodding study of eccentricity.
Michael Cera's act got old awful fast, didn't it?
I'm now officially done caring whether Michael Cera loses his virginity. So, it seems in this hit-and-miss comedy, is Cera.
Smug, dead-air-riddled adaptation of C.D. Payne's novel
The whole thing just seems as if it's trying too hard.
It's chaotic and episodic, but this is Cera's star turn. Superbad meets Fight Club? That'll do it.
Audience Reviews for Youth in Revolt
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- Nick Twisp/Francois: I do all my hiking free form. Like John Muir, I enter the wilderness with nothing more than my journal and a child-like sense of wonder.
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- Nick Twisp/Francois: Trent, I don't want to hurt you. Now I'll only ask once that you and your adorable sweater step away from the door.
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- Nick Twisp/Francois: Now half as bad as the nasty things I wanna do to you right now with my tongue. I'm gonna wrap your legs around my head and wear you like the crown that you are.
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- Estelle Twisp: I need that child support money to eat.
- Nick Twisp/Francois: Shouldn't you need that child support money to support your child?
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- Nick Twisp/Francois: I want to tickle your belly button... from the inside.
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Foreign Titles
- Be Bad ! (FR)
- Revolución juvenil (ES)
