Mad Atoms

Am I the only one that gets depressed during coming of age movies? I'm not sure why they make me so sad. Maybe because my own coming of age never had a feel-good indie rock soundtrack or a girl half as hot as Kristin Stewart telling me to take off my pants. Or maybe it just hasn't happened yet.

So, I guess Michael Cera was busy shooting another coming of age indie film, so they had to get the curly haired kid from Squid and the Whale, Roger Doger, and about half a dozen other coming of age indie films. This kid must be 45 by now.

He needs a summer job, so he goes to work for that one guy from SNL (that people must think is funny) at a theme park, along with Kristin Stewart, McLovin, and that frat boy looking guy who somehow got Scarlet Johanssen to marry him (he also dated Alanis Morrisssette, Rachel Leigh Cook, and loves traveling according to IMDB). If this sounds like a movie you've seen a 100 times before, you're wrong, because this one has that woman from SNL (that people must think is funny). Other than that, you're dead on.

This little ditty of a movie is from the director of Superbad, produced by everyone’s favorite cultural reactionary, Judd Apatow.

Apatow is beginning to look like the Johnny Appleseed of bad indie comedy. For every good one he produces, three new, depressingly unoriginal ones spring up around him.

I actually like the Violent Femmes- where else do you get to hear two Xylophone solos in one song? But Blister in the Sun is quite possibly the most overplayed song in the history of western civilization, and to include it in a trailer indicates a certain level of malice on the part of the trailer editor. 

This preview reminds us of the simple fact that all independent films are terrible, except if they're extremely depressing and even then most of them suck. So let's all go see that mall cop movie for the third time. Lesson over.