There was no adventure in Adventureland. Adventureland, written and directed by Greg Mottola, is the new comedy/ drama starring Twilight’s leading lady, Kristen Stewart, and new star Jesse Eisenberg.

Adventureland set in the 1987, concerns its plot about the newly graduate James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg). Brennan, an awkward, eccentric, and a virgin, needs a summer job in order to pay for graduate school in New York. While finding that he is overqualified for all the low-end jobs he applies for, he ends up working for the tacky amusement park that likes to rip off everyone, Adventureland.

At Adventureland he makes a new group of odd friends, and a newly found crush Em (Kristen Stewart), and a new outlet for problems, marijuana. While the film revolves around Brennan, the movie goes into more detail with the people surrounding him. The troubles Em has with her father and love. The desire of acceptance his friend Joel (Martin Starr) has. As well as all the friends you have, just secretly hate, yet you still hang out with.

Adventureland is a film about everyone’s summer experiences involving going into college or between the college years. It displays that uncomfortable point in life: when your parents no longer want nor are willing to help you financially, when your friends make decisions without you, when you have no idea what you personally want anymore. The film revolves just this moment in time when everything you thought you were sure of is no longer, and you have no idea what to expect or want anymore.

Though the film tried to touch on an important time in people’s lives, the film failed to do so with excitement or belief. The film’s first fail was the character Brennan. Brennan not only looked like he could still be in high school, but his character acted like he was still in high school as well. I felt the film purposely kept mentioning he was trying to afford Graduate school because Mottola knew the audience was not going to believe it. Second of all, the audience will immediately recognize Brennan as the character from Superbad, Evan (Michael Cera), the awkward virgin not sure about himself.

Stewart’s character is also highly recognizable from Twilight, the broody, mysterious, dark girl who has some serious love issues. As well Ryan Reynolds character, Mike Connell, the maintenance guy who loves to hit on younger women, which was his same character in the movie Waiting. Never have I seen a film tremendously type casted like this one. It was as though Mottola took characters from different films and put them all in the same movie, but at least had the decency to change the names.

The film also had a poor cliché ending that was also vastly unlikely. Though due to the unlikeness and being cliché, the ending was not dramatic, funny, nor romantic enough to save the rest of the film.

What saved this film were the no name stars that only had a small amount of contribution, which added a huge amount of comedy. The movie was like watching an actual “real” reality TV movie. While watching the film, the audience could easily recognize situations and relate these stories to their own. However, because the movie had such a real effect, the film became dull and hardly funny. No one wants to see a real life story without immense drama I believe I truly laughed a total of two times. I feel the audience went in to see Adventureland with high expectations of humor and eccentricity but came out with a dull experience and film they have already scene due to the amount of type casting.

Overall Adventureland deserves a C, for being boring, dull, not as humorous as expected, and for being too cliché. I felt like I was actually watching actual people bored with their lives working in a tawdry amusement park, as consequence made the whole movie and audience feel bored with the characters’ lives and the amusement park.