Youth in the 80's

I am a bit stuck on the whole current teenage movie genre so I had to see Youth in Revolt with Michael Cera. I don’t get it as he plays the same character in every movie I have ever seen him in, PLUS I really think he has worn the same wardrobe in every movie he has been in also. But I am compelled as well as stuck as usual. I just don’t get these current teenage movies, like Juno, as they are so not real. All the characters are so interested in showing they know everything they speak like those search engine commercials where the person goes in robot fashion from one obscure subject to the other. I really see them as grown up fantasies of AV nerds, now movie producers, and how they wish high school was. At least John Hughes had some respect about it all and let his characters, like Samantha in 16 Candles, act like she knew everything when it was clearly known she was just as confused as any teenager should be. Even Ferris Bueller for as cocky as he was, still did not have the world so neatly figured out in every single possible aspect.

All that being said, I loved the movie! How could I not? It is a nerd fantasy and I love the idea a world where the nerd is king and the jock is a schmuck. I stare in amazement of this one character of Michael Cera’s and think, “Oh how great to have a world of reverse reality where the most awkward person ever is the person everyone wants to be around”. So I shelled out my cash and enjoyed and will probably do the same for the next Michael Cera movie as well.