Adventureland | ADVENTURELAND Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart enjoy one crazy summer
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ADVENTURELAND Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart enjoy one crazy summer
Movie on DVD Review

Adventureland

EW's GRADE
B+

Details Movie Rated: R; Genre: Comedy; With: Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart; Distributor: Miramax

If a coming-of-age movie is going to work, it's got to have a killer soundtrack. And Adventureland has 
a honey — the Replacements, Hüsker Dü, the Cure (seriously, buy it!). The movie's solid too. Jesse Eisenberg makes a bid to be the next 
 Michael Cera playing an awkward kid working at a lame amusement park who falls for Twilight's Kristen Stewart. Weed is smoked, hearts are crushed, life lessons are learned. In the EXTRAS, director Greg Mottola (Superbad) muses on his own past as a summertime carny on New York's Long Island. B+

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Originally posted Aug 25, 2009 Published in issue #1063 Sep 04, 2009 Order article reprints
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