If you havent got a campaign behind you, you might as well give up.
Out of that fresh crop, it was the ugliest, the subtlest and the most scathing.
But withYoung Adult,Reitman took probably his largest gamble.
Charlize Theron stars as Mavis, a thirtysomething novelist who pens a successful series of YA fiction.
The gradual slip towards middle-age, boredom, and death!
Something, she thinks, must be done about this horrific situation.
The result is, seriously, not the laugh-riot that the films posters and critical pull-quotes suggest.
The character, like the film, is a little hard to handle, and certainly hard to like.
Mavis is singing along, but she never lets the song end.
WhereYoung Adultsucceeds is in its examination of the fade-out at the end of this song of youth.
Some characters move on.
Mavis, though, is held in place and not necessarily by choice.
Its certainly not a quirky, transformative comedy, blistering or otherwise, no matter what the pull-quotes say.
Young Adultis easy to overlook, but once watched, its hard to forget.
