Michael Cera tries to act his way out of his geeky, shy adolescent persona by creating an alter ego in Youth In Revolt to get the girl of his dreams. In order for them to continue their blossoming romance Cera needs to be thrown out of his house and sent to live with his father who lives next to the girl of his infatuations. In other words, he needs to be bad. Of course the typical Cera persona is anything but, therefore he develops a split personality disorder to accomplish this. Ultimately the movies depends on Cera being able to pull off this task. His french resembling Breathless bad boy isn't the worst alter ego I've ever seen but I never felt that the character was ever fully able to go wild.
The movie's got a great supporting cast that really is much better than the material. The film sometimes reverts to childlike animation that just feels out of place or trying way to hard to be trendy and artistic. The entire screenplay is filled with witty banter that more than once feels to cute for the movies own good. It displays an indie sensibility that feels at times too Junoesque. We've seen this story plenty of times. This time its just not told as well.
C
2010
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