The sexual dynamics between a group of young people in 1987 who work at a small town amusement park. Jesse Eisenberg is the indecisive high school graduate who ends up employed there, finding himself drawn to the pretty brunette teenager who runs the gaming booths. Well-cast film with a lightly-nostalgic bend, supported nicely by a barrage of pop-rock gems from the '80s on the soundtrack. It has a tendency to sneak up on you even if there aren't many surprises in the plot. The relationships between the desperately-casual kids and their uptight or turbulent parents is predictable (and formulaic), however the sequences at the park (particularly with Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig as the supervisors) are bracing and funny. Not a barn-burner by any means, and padded with silly asides and prurience, but with smart little nuances and a memorable scenario. **1/2 from ****
Review of Adventureland
