Youth in Revolt (2009)

In this tale of a rebelling youngster, Michael Cera takes on the role of the above mentioned youth, whom after falling in love with a girl he can’t have, goes on a spree of outlandish rebellion to try and see the girl he wants and loose his oh-so-hated virginity. However, his good-boy self can’t do it without the help of the bad boy alter ego.

Cera is Nick Twisp and Francois Dillinger and as usual he is entertaining and funny and the film has a slew of talented veteran actors coming in to spice up the acting throughout the film. The movies script, though, felt unoriginal. It was like Me, Myself, and Irene meets Superbad. But the directing makes up for it. Miguel Arteta was original. His mixture of original animation and slow motion shots made the film fun. It was a short film that moved fast. Not even an hour and a half long, which played both as a good thing and a bad thing.

I don’t have much to say about this film. It wasn’t really good. It wasn’t bad. No strong complaints but no big compliments. It was just kind of there and then it wasn’t. Rent it. It’s good if you didn’t see it in theaters, it wouldn’t have been worth it.