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REVIEW: Theron, Reitman and Cody Combine For Stark, Sublime Young Adult | Movieline

For the record (and review purposes, I suppose), I’m among the latter. Young Adult is the first of Reitman’s films from which I haven’t felt him choking out a message; ironically, its rawness yields the humanity that he thought he was wringing from Up in the Air in particular, which got nowhere by assaying only the effect and not the cause of various recession-era ruthlessness. He and Cody have turned that rock over, with Theron doing the impossibly heavy lifting of making a woman inclined to selfishness, irresponsibility and condescension somehow worth our time and interest — mostly because this film is aimed at a generation for whom each of Mavis’s darkest compulsions are never far from its own. Indeed, it’s easy to resent Mavis for not behaving better — for unleashing unthinkable malevolence on a populace that cannot or will not defend itself for whatever reason — or to dismiss Cody and Reitman as nothing more than charlatans hamfistedly bending the light of the zeitgeist. But keeping Young Adult’s big reveal in mind, the picture ultimately forces those around Mavis — both onscreen and off — to reconcile what they will and won’t tolerate from a woman.
 
God dammit adgy... I'm going to see this stupid movie and if I hate it I'm taking it out on you.
 

Well sometimes there are movies I know I'm going to hate and so I just say "**** it... not seeing it".

Then there are movies that I know I'm going to hate... but the more I hear about them the more I feel like I would really super duper extra mega insano hate them and I start to feel really curious. I feel this compulsion to bathe in the rage of seeing a movie that offends me on every level.

I have a sneaking suspicion that this movie will make me heart explode with the kind of anger and bile that I usually only reserve for loved ones who want nothing more than for me to quietly enjoy a little holiday fun.

Bastards.
 
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Now this looks like fun. So once you 'gals' go on your playdate and go see Young Adult maybe you'll want to put on your nicest dresses and go see a real comedy.
 
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