ThiefHott Too much of everything

Wordiezett So much average

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

canadian58 Michael Cera is a great actor, and this movie is no different. Youth in Revolt is more subtle than you would think, given the title and premise. Nick is a 16 year old with not many friends, a screwed up family, and worst of all, he is a virgin. Upon meeting Sheeni, he falls in love with her instantly, and will do anything to be with her. This involves creating an alter ego, and becoming an outlaw.My only real complaint is that it seemed to me that they put just enough F-words in this to get it rated R. The swearing could have been cut down to make this PG-13, to appeal to a broader audience.This is a simple teen comedy, but adults will like it too, it's very well written with a good plot, good actors that fit their characters, and plenty of laughs. Check it out, you won't regret it.

tieman64 "Youth in Revolt" is a fairly amusing comedy starring Michael Cera as Nick Twisp, a shy, socially inept teenager who falls in love with Sheeni, a girl he meets whilst on a camping trip.The film's narrative is a twist on your typical "nice guys finish last" tale, Twisp realising that he must literally reinvent himself as a rebellious "bad boy" in order to win Sheeni's love. And so Twisp creates an alter ego called Francois Dillinger – the name a play on both outlaw John Dillinger and Jean Luc Godard anti-heros – and sets about committing various crimes and questionable acts. Cue much hilarity.It's a good idea for a film, but as most romantic comedies actually feature the "nice guy winning", and as "Youth in Revolt" ends with both Sheeni and Twisp realising that "bad boys" aren't what they're looking for, the film's narrative arc seems strangely pointless. It's formulaic rather than daring.The film does one interesting thing, though. Sheeni comes from a repressive suburban home, her family a pair of ultra right wing Christians. This results in Sheeni and her siblings "revolting" against their fundamentalist parents by smoking pot and immersing themselves in Parisian fantasies, sex, New Wave cinema and Serge Gainsbourg records. Meanwhile, Nick's case is the opposite. His household is populated by potheads, slackers, sex monkeys and bums, whom Nick "revolts" against by immersing himself in mellow, hipster affections (50s Frank Sinatra, classic films, books etc). Later he will embody Jean Paul Belmondo's Michael in Godard's "A Bout De Soufflé". So the film essentially has ultra right-wing conservatism/authoritarianism breeding an extrovert and ultra lax, liberalism/uninhibitedness breeding an introvert. Sheeni then unwittingly becomes her parents, trying to change and force an image up Nick, which of course backfires spectacularly. Lesson? People always define themselves in opposition to something, and forcing others often reinforces behaviour rather than instigating changes.The film was directed by Miguel Arteta, who specilizes in pretty good black comedies. The majority of his films see characters trying and failing to break free of "who they are", be they Mexican kids trying to escape poverty ("Star Maps"), infantalized gay artists trying to grow up and/or turn straight ("Chuck and Buck"), frumpy cashiers trying to escape stagnated marriages ("The Good Girl"), or introverted insurance agents ("Cedar Rapids") wrestling with personal growth. Your classic Arteta character is caught between personal desires and socio-genetic hard-coding. As he becomes more mainstream/successful, Arteta's tales of personal growth become less pessimistic, his characters fates and personalities no longer fixed, or even contingent, but subordinate to old fashioned Hollywood wish fulfilment.7.9/10 – Needs more jokes. Worth on viewing.

cattrelc Like some previous reviewers have noted, if you don't enjoy Michael Cera, stay away from this one. I would also recommend that if you don't like some of John Hughes earlier films, you might also not enjoy this movie. I like both but Cera more than Hughes. However, I don't know how long that will be true. I first saw Michael in Arrested Development and I don't know if I have seen him play anything except for George Michael since. That is fine for awhile but I get the sense that I might grow tired of it eventually. This movie was enjoyable for its absurdest sensibilities and for some decent casting. Nothing really blew me away but I genuinely believed that everyone in it was who they were playing. I didn't appreciate the end message which seemed both disingenuous and heavy handed. Still, its nice to see a movie about unabashed love and teen awkwardness portrayed w/o a high degree of shock value. Maybe I am a little old fashioned but I can still appreciate a good (mostly) clean coming of age film.

MLDinTN trying to lose his virginity. Michael Cera plays the nerd yet again; this time he is Nick Twisp. He lives with his mom and her live in boyfriend. They go to a trailer park for a week where Nick meets Sheeni, the girl of his dreams. He invents this French alter ego (he's French because Sheeni is obsessed with anything French) that comes up with these plans to try to get kicked out of his house so he can live with his dad, whom lives close to Sheeni. So the alter ego steels and starts fires and Nick gets his wish. Only problem is Sheeni is now going to a private French school. So Nick has to devise more evil plans to try to be with her. His plans are crazy and silly which is what makes the movie funny.FINAL VERDICT: A teen film with some laughs, a good choice if nothing else is on.