Youth in Revolt Movie Review
"Youth in Revolt" My 0-10 quality rating: 8 Genre: Comedy
Director: Miguel Arteta Screenplay: Gustin Nash, Miguel Arteta, Michael Cera Starring: Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Steve Buscemi, Ray Liotta,
M. Emmet Walsh, Justin Long, Jean Smart, Mary Kay Place Time: 1 hr., 30 min. Rating: R (sexual content, explicit intercourse in animated cartoons, vulgarity, drug abuse)
High humor literacy level, a cornucopia of sophisticated quips, and original concept in delightfully deadpan delivery makes mtss is a ribald laughfest for smart, quick-witted and hip adults. For teenagers? Only if you're unusually perceptive and culturally aware.
"Youth in Revolt" is usually an exceptionally clever poker-faced comedy and that is meaningless by plot description but everything by its delivery. It proposes to indicate that teenagers, in pondering themselves as considerably smarter and much more savvy than grown-ups, inevitably, being ill-equipped in doing that, wind up as selfish, short-sighted bunglers who show themselves as exactly the opposite.
The plot, in line with the C.D. Payne cult book series, is about 14-year-old Nick Twisp (Michael Cera), a lad with variously unformed notions, one of them, partially true, that everybody's reading good sex than he is.
The film is totally positive about itself in playing to cultural sophisticates and diehard cynics using elitist verbal references in myriad rapid-fire jabs and joshes. Michael Cera is a bit more than up to his refined performance tasks.
14-year-old Nick lives with his lowbrow aging mom Estelle (Jean Smart) in a Oakland trailer home, and her white trash long-haul trucker boyfriend Jerry (Zach Galifianakis). Nick is usually an aficionado of Sinatra, fine literature, foreign films and Fellini. This does not make Nick in the least popular. George, his dad (Steve Buscemi) living elsewhere, is rolling with Lacey (Ari Graynor) who's half his age.
Matters take dicey turns in young Nick's life when he has to join Jerry and his mom away, staying at a Christian trailer park. First love smacks Nick hard because he falls instantly for Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday) who's the daughter of fundamentalist parents (Mary Kay Place and M. Emmet Walsh) who live in an upscale complex trailer home nearby. They do not like Nick -- in the least.
But Sheeni fits perfectly into Nick's high-level tastes as she loves every item and fixture French and desires for living in Paris. Sheeni, with many advanced sexual understandings first her age, also fantasizes being whooshed away using a handsome, suave, adventuresome boy named Francois. And unfortunately for Nick, Sheeni already is seeing Trent (Jonathan Wright), an insufferably pompous prep boy. If it is time to return from your vacation, the Sheeni thing seems doomed.
Nick chooses an alter-ego. Like how about a figment named Francois Dillinger? He'll be detailed with cigarette, moustache and white pants. He will be at Nick's side to support him in becoming a "bad boy" who can get thrown out by mom so he is able to stay with dad, who lives near Sheeni. Dad doesn't want him. Not surprisingly, Nick is headed down a wayward route to real trouble.
When his mom's slobbish Jerry dies from the road somewhere she efforts to make it with Lance (Ray Liotta), a low-minded cop who's investigating the bizarre million-dollar damage Nick has perpetrated. Nick, the fact is, is in hiding from the police, this in his dad's house and that is right near that trailer park where he'd met Sheeni. Her parents, who despise Nick and observe what he's done for a bad boy, forbid their getting together. Is the fact going to stop the lovers from carrying it out before he gets sent approximately juvenile detention?
The film lurches into one comically fertile situation to another. Portia Doubleday, playing the teenager as equally distant from her parents' alien values as they are Nick, does a smooth, serviceable and sexy job of the usb ports. Steve Buscemi, a master film bit player (but supreme because conspirator in "Fargo"), needs bigger script material. Jean Smart lays into her role with only the right mixed energy to draw both your sympathy and disgust.
Michael Cera has exactly the restraint and projection needed for bone-dry comedy.
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Hang in there for any line. Sometime you're laughing regularly into the next gag and will miss it. The film recollects "Napoleon Dynamite" in its straight-faced take on the natural comedy and tragedy to become an adolescent. Most of us have been there.