This movie is going down in the books with "The Hangover," "American Pie," and "Scary Movie" as a must see comedy.
Here is the movie's release date:
January 8, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Youth in Revolt Plot
Opening domestically October 30, Youth In Revolt will provide moviegoers with a comedic alternative to the horror films and award-seeking pictures that will be dominating the multiplexes. Fans of Cera’s previous work will be intrigued by this Dimension property, but one wonders if his overexposure in the last few years will result in some audience fatigue.
Hyper-literate, ineffectual virgin Nick (Cera) meets the pretty, precocious Sheeni (Portia Doubleday) while on vacation, instantly falling in love with her. She has feelings for him, too, but she wants him to be more assertive if he’s to capture her heart. To accomplish this task, Nick adopts a secret alter ego named Francois (played by Cera, with a thin moustache), a cold-blooded Frenchman who gives Nick lessons in arrogance.
While it could just be a victim of extraordinary coincidence, Youth In Revolt (which is based on the novel by C.D. Payne) finds itself echoing other recent indie teen comedies.
Like Adventureland, the film features a brainy outcast wooing a beautiful girl who shares his refined artistic taste. Calling to mind Juno, it leans heavily on a soundtrack of quirky indie-rock, and its animation interludes have the same preciousness as a similar technique used in Paper Heart. And of course, Cera’s involvement with some of those titles only adds to this movie’s nagging sense of déjà vu.
Director Miguel Arteta has made several independent features (such as Chuck & Buck), but Youth In Revolt finds him transitioning into broad, R-rated deadpan comedy. He confidently stages some funny sequences, but he’s at the mercy of a story (adapted by Charlie Bartlett screenwriter Gustin Nash) that’s burdened by familiar conventions of the genre, whether it be the sex-and-drugs bawdiness, the frank dialogue or the young person’s viewpoint of an adult world full of phonies.
The film’s one narrative wrinkle is Nick’s insolent doppelganger Francois, which should provide Cera with an excellent opportunity to spoof his nebbishy persona by playing its exact opposite. But the conceit bears little comedic fruit, failing to exploit the notion that we all have ugly sides of our personality that we’re afraid to reveal.
Cera gives a humorous performance (actually two), but its impact will be inversely proportional to how many of his previous films you’ve seen. At this stage of his early career, he may be becoming a victim of his own success. Between Superbad, Juno, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Year One and Paper Heart, Cera has been a prolific actor over the last two years, establishing a reliable comic persona in the process.
But his quiet, ironic style can come across as smug when the material’s not sharp, and with Youth In Revolt he appears to be coasting. This development isn’t revolting, but it is worrisome.
Hyper-literate, ineffectual virgin Nick (Cera) meets the pretty, precocious Sheeni (Portia Doubleday) while on vacation, instantly falling in love with her. She has feelings for him, too, but she wants him to be more assertive if he’s to capture her heart. To accomplish this task, Nick adopts a secret alter ego named Francois (played by Cera, with a thin moustache), a cold-blooded Frenchman who gives Nick lessons in arrogance.
While it could just be a victim of extraordinary coincidence, Youth In Revolt (which is based on the novel by C.D. Payne) finds itself echoing other recent indie teen comedies.
Like Adventureland, the film features a brainy outcast wooing a beautiful girl who shares his refined artistic taste. Calling to mind Juno, it leans heavily on a soundtrack of quirky indie-rock, and its animation interludes have the same preciousness as a similar technique used in Paper Heart. And of course, Cera’s involvement with some of those titles only adds to this movie’s nagging sense of déjà vu.
Director Miguel Arteta has made several independent features (such as Chuck & Buck), but Youth In Revolt finds him transitioning into broad, R-rated deadpan comedy. He confidently stages some funny sequences, but he’s at the mercy of a story (adapted by Charlie Bartlett screenwriter Gustin Nash) that’s burdened by familiar conventions of the genre, whether it be the sex-and-drugs bawdiness, the frank dialogue or the young person’s viewpoint of an adult world full of phonies.
The film’s one narrative wrinkle is Nick’s insolent doppelganger Francois, which should provide Cera with an excellent opportunity to spoof his nebbishy persona by playing its exact opposite. But the conceit bears little comedic fruit, failing to exploit the notion that we all have ugly sides of our personality that we’re afraid to reveal.
Cera gives a humorous performance (actually two), but its impact will be inversely proportional to how many of his previous films you’ve seen. At this stage of his early career, he may be becoming a victim of his own success. Between Superbad, Juno, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Year One and Paper Heart, Cera has been a prolific actor over the last two years, establishing a reliable comic persona in the process.
But his quiet, ironic style can come across as smug when the material’s not sharp, and with Youth In Revolt he appears to be coasting. This development isn’t revolting, but it is worrisome.
Youth in Revolt Review 3
There is no question that it was primarily due to the fact that I was 'high' on the roaring laughter of over a thousand people at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, but I found this film to be quite charming. Having read about a third of C.D. Payne's decidedly middle-brow novel, I was very curious to see how this would and could play out on the big screen. Suffice it to say that it did an admirable job formatting the bulky content. (This fact is especially impressive when you figure in that it's screenwriter, Gustin Nash was working as a stereo salesman at the time it was written). The skeleton of the plot is anything but original: a horny, awkward virgin meets a "Manic Pixie Dream Girl",(that ugly stock character that always seems to be eaten up with a spoon by many a spurious aesthete) and goes to extreme (and "hilarious") lengths to try and bang her. Sound familiar? The only elements that puts this a notch above the myriad of films tied to this tired formula is the manifestation of a devious alter-ego, 'Franscois' (i.e. Cera's best work thus far) and Payne's slightly radical source material. The trouble I have with this kind of film is the fact that the majority of its fans are fans in order to be "in" on something. They like it because they catch the Fellini, Ozu, Belmondo, and Serge Gainsbourg references, and they want you to know that. The trouble is, the film has such a rudimentary grasp of all these cultural figures, (perhaps it's the stereo salesman in Nash) that it uses their unfamiliarity as a cheap mechanism to get a laugh from the lowest common denominator. This has been done in a handful of other films ("500 Days of Summer" anyone?) and should greatly annoy the viewers who claim to "get it" but somehow it never seems to, why? I'd wager it's because they know the names, but not the work or significance. Like any faux-hipster film, this is going to appeal to the ego in audiences. Kudos to the marketing genius who came up with this type of film; "Little Miss Sunshine," "Juno," and "500 Days of Summers" are going to have some company. Because this little teen sex comedy/faux-hipster hybrid is bound to be the biggest comedy hit of the season.
Youth in Revolt Review 2
'Youth in Revolt' adapts the first three volumes of C.D. Payne's six-book series about Nick Twist, a smart and, in his own opinion anyway, more-than-usually horny 14-year-old in Oakland ("a large, torpid city across from San Frandisco") who reports in daily journal form on a series of adventures encountered on the way to losing his virginity, despite the obstacles set up by his irresponsible divorced parents. Ironically, though pointed at today's young teens, 'Revolt's' R rating excludes them -- though the books are far more sexually explicit. Whether somehow this will become a cult movie via Netflix is hard to say. It's pretty faithful to the books, leaving out lots, but adding or changing little. Unfortunately Arteta's flat direction, and focus on the action aspects -- an accident, a fire, a botched fake suicide, invasion of the girls' dorm of a French-language prep school in Santa Cruz -- excises much of the self-satisfied wit of the books and Nick's one flourish, his intellectual and literary showing off. The film necessarily loses the flavor of a day-to-day-journal, though most of the characters tend to talk in the same ornate, overly-polite style as Nick's entries.
C.D. Payne is no Salinger. His books serve as page-turners for young readers, but they're nothing special. There's a curious sense of being out of time. Is this the Nineties, when the books were begun?-- or the youth of Payne himself, who was born in 1949? Nick's girlfriend Sheeni (Portia Doubleday)'s fascination with Belmondo, chanteur Serge Gainsbourg, and the existentialists, -- and the general innocence of the behavior -- would suggest earlier days, but in the movie, people have cell phones, and a prevalance of 'shrooms and blunts makes this post-Breathless (francophile Sheeni's favorite movie). The main point was to keep the incidents coming, and Payne went on with "The Further Journals" and finally the adventures of Twist's younger brother.
Young Canadian actor Michael Cera, the star of Miguel Arteta's adaptation of this movie, who's now twenty-one, was already a TV veteran before he was ten. Though he appeared in many episodes of the cable series "Arrested Development," and in retrospect we realize he played the young Chuck Barris in George Clooney's droll ramble 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' he reached a kind of nerdy, adorable mega-stardom only a couple years ago with two big hits, 'Juno' and 'Superbad,' followed by the equally charming if less seen 'Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist.'
What has Mike done with his stardom? Well, he played opposite Jack Black in Harold Ramis' slapstick (and generally panned) prehistoric comedy 'Year One' and co-starred with his now ex-girlfriend Charlene Yi in the poorly received 'Paper Heart.'
Cera has good timing and is adept at delivering lines, which makes him well suited for comedy. His limitations in other areas appear in this new outing. He's both the hero and voice-over narrator, Nick Twist and Nick's bolder and more dashing imaginary alter ego, Francois, who goads him on to bolder action. There is a certain nonchalance in the flat style. Under ideal circumstances it might seem elegant. If you could be nerdy and cool at the same time Michael Cera is it, and girls do find him cute. He rarely appears anything but relaxed. But the high-pitched voice is inexpressive. The range is from A to B, and this is highlighted by how little success Cera has in making Francois seem any different from Nick, despite a little mustache, tight pants, and a lot of cigarettes (amusingly, puffed on even while running fast through the woods, while Nick lags clumsily behind). With this new performance, Cera continues to seem enormously appealing, but for conventional starring roles, cripplingly limited. He's just too pale and bland and androgynous, and the more he's cast as a horny guy the more far-fetched that seems. Anything with him in it seems de-fanged.
Maybe it doesn't matter. You either get it or you don't, and there are plenty of young readers who insist these are "the best books ever." This is as good a time as any for some lighthearted teenage adventures. (The adaptation was co-written by Gustin Nash, the guy who did 'Charlie Bartlett,' a so-so movie about a young high school entrepreneur starring Anton Yelchin.)
'Youth in Revolt' casts some veritable cult actors, who include M. Emmett Walsh as Sheeni's born-again-Christian dad and Mary Kay Place as her mom, Steve Buscemi as Nick's dad, Ray Liotta as a cop who gets involved with his floozy mom (Jean Smart). But the presence of such memorable thespians only emphasizes how little developed their characters are. I liked relative newcomer Adhir Kalyan as Veejay, Nick's erudite school friend and fellow would-be seducer of women: he gives his lines some juice. Best of all is Justin Long, who slides into the scene as Sheeni's sly older brother. He is the only unexpected character. Long can always do a lot with a small part, and when he gets a bigger one, like in Raimi's recent old-fashioned horror movie 'Drag Me to Hell,' he can be equally appealing. And there are others, such as comedy veteran Fred Willard as an excessively good-hearted neighbor.
The director, Miguel Arteta, did annoying but memorable work with writer Mike White in 'Chuck and Buck,' and the pair made something very droll in 'The Good Girl.' One wonders if Arteta was the ideal person to do this job. He seems just to be walking through it.
The Eighties were the time of the movies that celebrated youth and its many voices, ranging from S.E. Hinton and 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' to the dark Alpha Girl portraiture of 'Heathers,' and John Hughes' classics. This lacks their warmth and bite.
But I still like Cera, and as has been said by a preview audience member, "His fans will be in heaven" with this.
C.D. Payne is no Salinger. His books serve as page-turners for young readers, but they're nothing special. There's a curious sense of being out of time. Is this the Nineties, when the books were begun?-- or the youth of Payne himself, who was born in 1949? Nick's girlfriend Sheeni (Portia Doubleday)'s fascination with Belmondo, chanteur Serge Gainsbourg, and the existentialists, -- and the general innocence of the behavior -- would suggest earlier days, but in the movie, people have cell phones, and a prevalance of 'shrooms and blunts makes this post-Breathless (francophile Sheeni's favorite movie). The main point was to keep the incidents coming, and Payne went on with "The Further Journals" and finally the adventures of Twist's younger brother.
Young Canadian actor Michael Cera, the star of Miguel Arteta's adaptation of this movie, who's now twenty-one, was already a TV veteran before he was ten. Though he appeared in many episodes of the cable series "Arrested Development," and in retrospect we realize he played the young Chuck Barris in George Clooney's droll ramble 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' he reached a kind of nerdy, adorable mega-stardom only a couple years ago with two big hits, 'Juno' and 'Superbad,' followed by the equally charming if less seen 'Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist.'
What has Mike done with his stardom? Well, he played opposite Jack Black in Harold Ramis' slapstick (and generally panned) prehistoric comedy 'Year One' and co-starred with his now ex-girlfriend Charlene Yi in the poorly received 'Paper Heart.'
Cera has good timing and is adept at delivering lines, which makes him well suited for comedy. His limitations in other areas appear in this new outing. He's both the hero and voice-over narrator, Nick Twist and Nick's bolder and more dashing imaginary alter ego, Francois, who goads him on to bolder action. There is a certain nonchalance in the flat style. Under ideal circumstances it might seem elegant. If you could be nerdy and cool at the same time Michael Cera is it, and girls do find him cute. He rarely appears anything but relaxed. But the high-pitched voice is inexpressive. The range is from A to B, and this is highlighted by how little success Cera has in making Francois seem any different from Nick, despite a little mustache, tight pants, and a lot of cigarettes (amusingly, puffed on even while running fast through the woods, while Nick lags clumsily behind). With this new performance, Cera continues to seem enormously appealing, but for conventional starring roles, cripplingly limited. He's just too pale and bland and androgynous, and the more he's cast as a horny guy the more far-fetched that seems. Anything with him in it seems de-fanged.
Maybe it doesn't matter. You either get it or you don't, and there are plenty of young readers who insist these are "the best books ever." This is as good a time as any for some lighthearted teenage adventures. (The adaptation was co-written by Gustin Nash, the guy who did 'Charlie Bartlett,' a so-so movie about a young high school entrepreneur starring Anton Yelchin.)
'Youth in Revolt' casts some veritable cult actors, who include M. Emmett Walsh as Sheeni's born-again-Christian dad and Mary Kay Place as her mom, Steve Buscemi as Nick's dad, Ray Liotta as a cop who gets involved with his floozy mom (Jean Smart). But the presence of such memorable thespians only emphasizes how little developed their characters are. I liked relative newcomer Adhir Kalyan as Veejay, Nick's erudite school friend and fellow would-be seducer of women: he gives his lines some juice. Best of all is Justin Long, who slides into the scene as Sheeni's sly older brother. He is the only unexpected character. Long can always do a lot with a small part, and when he gets a bigger one, like in Raimi's recent old-fashioned horror movie 'Drag Me to Hell,' he can be equally appealing. And there are others, such as comedy veteran Fred Willard as an excessively good-hearted neighbor.
The director, Miguel Arteta, did annoying but memorable work with writer Mike White in 'Chuck and Buck,' and the pair made something very droll in 'The Good Girl.' One wonders if Arteta was the ideal person to do this job. He seems just to be walking through it.
The Eighties were the time of the movies that celebrated youth and its many voices, ranging from S.E. Hinton and 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' to the dark Alpha Girl portraiture of 'Heathers,' and John Hughes' classics. This lacks their warmth and bite.
But I still like Cera, and as has been said by a preview audience member, "His fans will be in heaven" with this.
Youth in Revolt Review 1
I enjoy Michael Cera as much as the next person; he's awkward and endearing and watching him fumble makes me feel better about myself. The thing about Michael Cera, is that all of the characters he plays... are Michael Cera.
Well... except for Nick Twisp.
It starts off with Nick masturbating; I hadn't seen the trailer prior to the TIFF premiere, and during that first scene I somehow started having horrible flashbacks of Nick and Nora's Craptastic Adventure.
4 minutes in, my mind was changed.
The movie is filled to the brim with witticisms that I feared would fall flat with Cera's non-dimensional acting; I was surprised. He managed to avoid turning sexual situations into awkward moments, and the brilliantly written screen play kept the pace fast and...well, hilarious.
The character is less naive than we're meant to believe; Nick Twisp just wants to belong, and his alter-ego Francois (Cera with a shady looking 'stache) enables Nick to do that... it's like they've embarked on that wild ride that we all wish we could take.
There were SO MANY one liners that had the audience laughing, I think that it's hard not to adore this movie.
Seriously, I will be seeing it again.
Well... except for Nick Twisp.
It starts off with Nick masturbating; I hadn't seen the trailer prior to the TIFF premiere, and during that first scene I somehow started having horrible flashbacks of Nick and Nora's Craptastic Adventure.
4 minutes in, my mind was changed.
The movie is filled to the brim with witticisms that I feared would fall flat with Cera's non-dimensional acting; I was surprised. He managed to avoid turning sexual situations into awkward moments, and the brilliantly written screen play kept the pace fast and...well, hilarious.
The character is less naive than we're meant to believe; Nick Twisp just wants to belong, and his alter-ego Francois (Cera with a shady looking 'stache) enables Nick to do that... it's like they've embarked on that wild ride that we all wish we could take.
There were SO MANY one liners that had the audience laughing, I think that it's hard not to adore this movie.
Seriously, I will be seeing it again.
Monday, January 4, 2010
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