Young Adult (2011)
6/10
Meh.
13 May 2020
Young Adult is a nasty, shallow, unlikable movie about a nasty, shallow, unlikable character who ultimately discovers that nasty, shallow unlikability are just tickety-boo. Patton Oswalt is good, though. And so is the dog.

Look, I'm as bored as anybody else with stories that resolve everything with a shiny bright bow at the end. And much of the plot is just as realistic as you'd want it to be. It's just that final message, as voiced by the sister and as embraced by the main character, that she's better than anyone else.

If nothing else, before this thing wrapped up, somebody should have turned old Mavis in for animal neglect, because she left that dog alone in the hotel room day after day after day, and even overnight, and never once took it outside to pee.

These cannot be spoilers when the movie itself was already spoiled by the writer.
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