Review Tuesday: Young Adult

Last Friday Mrs Bax0jayz and I went to Devil Inside but when we got to the theater we were told that masses of people were charging out of it, asking for their money back, and leaving. So we thought quickly and decided on YOUNG ADULT instead.

Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) is an author of a line of "young adult" books who has reached a point in her life that she realizes that she needs to reclaim her glory days by getting back together with her school days boyfriend, Buddy. There's a minor issue, Buddy's married with a newborn baby daughter.

The movie is about how Mavis plots her moves to take back the man she feels was destined to share her life with her. Her scheming pal is Matt (Patton Oswalt) who plays the part of the dude trying to talk sense into her crazy head.

The movie is a series of misadventures as Mavis tries to seduce Buddy and whisk him off from the dumpy backwater Minnesota town they came from. Some are funny. Some are chilling.

This movie comes to us from Jason Reitman (Thank You For Smoking) and Diablo Cody (Juno) so I was expecting it to be a little more funny - ha ha. While there were funny scenes, it wasn't that sort of movie. It was more drama than comedy. You get to watch Mavis swirl out of control until she decided to "grow up" and move on again. The the ending is NOT what you'd expect it to be.

Clever writing. Great acting. Interesting movie. Worth watching just to see how great Charlize Theron is on the screen.

More at IMDB:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1625346/