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Sean @ the Movies: Young Adult
And here it is folks, the very last review for a movie I saw in 2011, yes I know it’s already the 4th of 2012. Just pretend that I really went wild and crazy on NYE and I am just now coming out of my party coma.
As 2011 was nearing, I headed off to get one more last little movie marathon in before the year ended. And this was the last movie of the day, and for 2011. And hopefully we will end the year on a good note.
Young Adult is directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody, who when these two combined forces, they introduced us to the quirky Juno, a movie I enjoyed, so you can guess that my expectations were somewhat high going into this one. The movies stars Charlize Theron, as a recently divorced and writer of a somewhat famous young adult series of books. It seems that things are not going in the right direction, and when she recieves a email, celebrating the birth of his child with his wife, from her high school boyfriend, played by Patrick Wilson. She packs up her things and heads back home and is set on a mission to get him back, even though it seems like everything is going ok with him and his wife, she thinks he isn’t happy. As the delusion seems to go farther and farther, she does run into one of her fellow classmates, played by Patton Oswalt, who survived a vicious bully attack, that ruined his life both physically and mentally. He tries to stop her and convince her that she needs to give up, but she is really set on proving him wrong.
You spend most of the people just amazed at how crazy and delusional she acts, which at some times makes you laugh a little. But I am not sure if we are supposed to feel sorry for her during the movie, or think she is just getting what she deserves in the end. She was a god during high school, but things have drastically changed, although no matter how ragged they try to make her look during the movie, she is still Charlize Theron. There was a point where I felt some sorrow for her, but in the end, I walked away from the movie, even wondering if she learned a lesson through all of this. And maybe that is what they intended.
The movie was ok, I kept trying to decide how I felt about it, and more times I came to the conclusion that it was a so-so movie. There are some signs of that greatness from these two, Jason shines in the credit sequence, and Diablo with some of her quirky dialogue, but not nearly as quirky as Juno or Jennifer’s Body. This is one, I think you can wait to check out on DVD or Netflix, nothing that you need to run out and see in theaters, unfortunately.
And that’s it folks, that is going to bring an end to 2011, and the only thing left to do is to finally post my top ten films of 2011, and that will be up very soon, I promise, so your patience will be awarded shortly.
Once again, just want to thank all of you out there who take the time to read my reviews and let me know that you enjoy reading them. I hope to improve my reviews a little in 2012, as the more I write, the more I kind find my groove.
As always, until next time, go out and see a movie
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