Adventureland is a comedy starring Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale), Kristen Stewart (Twilight?) some no names, and Ryan Reynolds. With the director of Superbad, whom is also a no name, but a no name with a title.
It tells the tale of James Brennan (Eisenberg) who is forced to take a summer job at Adventureland where he meets the girl of his dreams, Em (Stewart). Ryan Reynolds plays the amusement parks repair man, who is cheating on his wife with Em. And it all ends out to be a big cliche. As you watch it turn out like you know its gonna, there are a few jokes along the way, some of them are funny.
The performances don’t stand out, especially not the performance of Ryan Reynolds. I don’t even know why Scarlett Johansson married him. Except I heard that they had a huge fight right before comic-con, and their marriage is on the ropes. Although all of the claims of this actually being true are only coming from tabloid like sources, and even though most of the tabloids are even reporting it was a hoax, I still prefer to believe it. Scarlett shouldn’t have to put up with that trash, you go girl!
I digress, there are some funny moments in this movie, and it is completely adequate, but everything that I could say about it doesn’t go beyond “Okay” which still means that its better than most movies that come out, but far from must see.
As far as the Blu-ray features go, the cover preaches “Unrated Bonus Features” but guess how many boobs I found watching them? Yeah. Apparently the reason they weren’t rated was because they were reasonable enough not to rate them. I find this to be deceptive at best, a law should be passed that states you can’t say “unrated version” or “unrated full uncut chickfest” unless what is unrated is boobs.
So should you buy the Blu-ray version? Its not like its in 3-d or anything, so unless you’re loaded and for some reason your Blu-ray player doesn’t play DVD’s then I might not spend the extra money.
To sum it all up I would just like to say just because I didn’t think it was great, doesn’t mean you won’t, there’s nothing actually wrong with it, so if you were interested in watching this before you read this review, you should still give it a try. You can buy it at amazon, on Blu-ray and DVD for a very reasonable price.
