Movie Trailer Review: “Adventureland”

By Jeff Lyons on Jan 12, 2009 in Movie Trailer Reviews, Movies

"From the director of Superbad..." No shit. Greg Mottola found insane success with his first teenage romp (with heart, mind you, miles and miles of heart!), so taking a page from the Hollywood Comedy Manual, he decided to pretty much make the same film once again.

Mottola's pre-production to do list:

Get Michael Cera. Not available? Get another awkward yet relatable dork.
Get hot young actress who will inexplicable fall for the dork.
Get that guy from SNL, you know, what's his name... Got him! Cool. And Loren Michaels will throw in the girl too? Very Cool.
Get that creepy kid kid from that Apatow show, you know, what's his name...
Quickly, very quickly, throw a script together.

Tada! I'm sure it will deliver a few chuckles, amusement parks are inherently funny. Can't quite figure out what Ryan Reynolds is doing in this though, small part (think he's Canadian, they don't turn down anything).

Music: Big points for Rush (and air drumming), points deducted for "Blister in The Sun," no one need to hear that song again.

Release Date: 7 March 2009