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I 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.
Some may find such elements desperate or calculated in their quirky-cuteness, but I think they add to the movie's efforts to evoke the surrealism and excruciating intensity of, as the title puts it, youth in revolt.
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.
This red state versus blue state daringly offbeat chucklefest elevates that notorious dumb and dumber genre known as teen comedy, into fresh and verbally tangy territory. Enough so, to easily earn this movie informal bragging rights as Juno II.
An ill-conceived sketch flick which falls flat at every turn.
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.
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