Adventureland on DVD

One would think, that a movie directed by Greg Mottola of “Superbad” fame and featuring Ryan Reynolds and Saturday Night Live players Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig would be a rip-roaring display of lowbrow yet quality humor especially when the DVD has the ever-popular “unrated” stamp printed on its case. Newcomer Jesse Eisenberg and “Twilight’s” Kristen Stewart brought a level of complexity to this enjoyable, yet semi-serious comedy about life at a 1987 Pittsburgh amusement park. And yes, this movie did have its share of “kicks in the gonads,” “puke takes” and “boner jokes.” Eisenberg plays an intellectual and timid [...]