Greg Mottola

Gossip Sauce Sundance Report: Adventureland

January 20, 2009 at 7:17am PST

Tags: Adventureland, Almost Famous, Bill Hader, Greg Mottola, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Kristen Wiig, Ryan Reynolds, Say Anything, SNL, Sundance, Superbad, The Squid and the Whale, Twilight

Photos: sundance.org

We know that movies about losing “it” will never go out of style, but we also doubt they’ll ever reach the nadir (or quality) they hit in the 80s.

Adventureland has many trappings integral to the genre; drugs, summer boredom, excessive drinking, hormonal youth thrust together in close proximity. But it can’t touch the quality of Say Anything/Superbad/Almost Famous no matter how much writer-director Greg Mottola wants it to.

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