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Young Adult (2011) Better Left For Younger Adults

I had to look at IMDB to see if this was a comedy, and that was after I watched it. They say comedy/drama. Others call Young Adult "edgy." That to me means unpleasant things happen throughout, which they surely do here. Why did I step away from Hoot Gibson and Laurel-Hardy for this? Guess it was curiosity. I'm always intrigued by characters traveling back to roots for renewal of old love or conflict. This trip for Cherize Theron gets ugly (did you ever think her name would surface at GPS?). There's insight into skulls of writers whenever old school themes are addressed in movies, circumstance of scribes (how they must have suffered in high school) assuring unsympathetic treatment of "jocks" and homecoming queens who shunned them. Young Adult goes this better with a wisest character who was beaten and disfigured by said jocks, is now largely impotent and gets about on a leg brace (part of the "edge," or maybe the "drama" IMDB refers to). It's clear early on that's he's the one who will bag Cherize Theron, an outcome as believable as a Harryhausen pterodactyl flying through the window. I suspect Hollywood's writing pool has many a score to settle with long-past Most Populars. Did any head cheerleader ever become a successful scenarist? If so, she needs to pen something where Senior Superlatives represent other than darkest cruelty. Young Adult fascinates for its cringe worthiness. Scenes of utmost embarrassment and humiliation are lovingly prolonged. You just want to shake up creatives behind this and say, Get Over It!