Stream it now Post Grad 2009

 

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I liked Post-Grad about as much as I liked All About Steve. It wasn't a giant suck-bomb, but it was pretty bad.

You'd think with actors like Jane Lynch and Michael Keaton, some funny would come from this movie. I mean, Alexis Bledel was really funny on Gilmore Girls. But somehow, the only laughter I managed was awkward laughter at some of the "this COULD be funny" jokes.

I watched this with my mom she thought it was great. But if it's any indication, she also thought Bledel's love interest was, and I quote, "dreamy". Her words, not mine.

It wasn't horrid, but it really didn't hit good either.

Are you wondering how you never heard of this film with a cast like that? I know I sure was. According to IMDb, the film premiered at that end of August, and ran for 6 weeks. It grossed just over $6.3 million, and I think that's fair.

Don't take that the wrong way, I enjoyed the film, but for the subject matter, and the end result, it did the amount of business one should expect from a theatrical release. The real money is going to come from DVD rentals and sales, and of course, the television rights. This movie was MADE for playing on tv.

It's your basic coming of age story. Girl graduates college with a plan. The plan falls apart. Girl learns life lesson. So on, and so forth. You get the picture. If I were to focus on the negative stuff in the film, I could probably go one for awhile. But, like I told you, I kind of liked it, and let me tell you why. Two words.

Rory Gilmore.

I seriously think this film was written by a fan of the Gilmore Girls tv show. They saw Alexis and said, we need to do a Rory movie. Well, it certainly felt like that's what they wanted to do. Maybe it's like one of those alternate universe things. Yeah, that's it. A story of Rory Gilmore if such and such was different, and so and so was in her life. Really, you're not going to find too many surprises here. It follows the formula rather well.

Still, it has its humorous moments, and touching ones too. However, perhaps the most realistic moment in the film is the car accident. When the little white girl's car is hit by the Mexican's truck full of lawn equipment on a Los Angeles street, you are taken aback. Then, the next shot is that of the truck driving away .. you are suddenly brought back to reality and realize, this is real. This is what happens everyday. Oh, and just to save you some discussion time, Columbia = Columbia, and UC Creston = UCLA. You'll thank me later.

This movie had an over used storyline! I think they could have gone in a completely different direction and had a better hit. Alexis Bledel has gained the "seinfeld syndrome" in that no matter what role she plays I go back to her Rory character and can't picture her as anything more then an over eager student who doesnt know how she is going to get what ever it is she wants in the future while leaving a love sick boy behind. Was truly looking for a much better movie.

Ryden Malby (Alexis Bledel) has just finished earning her degree at college. Now she's ready to step into the so-called real world. Her father and mother (Michael Keaton, Jane Lynch) wish her good luck as she tries to get her dream job. But then everything doesn't go according to plan. Ryden doesn't get her dream job just out of school, and while the rest of her classmates are obscenely pipelined into fabulous jobs, she cannot even get a job. So Ryden endures humiliating jobs, including working for her daffy dad, while trying to keep her sky-high expectations in check.

The movie actually has a small amount of promise at the beginning, believe it or not (most of you understandably keep your doubts). Ryden opens the film in a brisk narration explaining her life's plan, which involves getting good grades, getting a scholarship to a school, and landing a job at a specific publisher (as if another editing gig at a different company would be a career disappointment?). She's a good student with a strong work ethic that has driven her thus far and gotten her several key internships. And then she steps out into the job market and realizes ... she's not alone. Other candidates her own age have similar qualifications and even more; she's no longer a big fish in a small pond, if you'd prefer your explanations in the analogical sense. This is fertile dramatic ground that not too many movies have treaded before. Sure, other films have dealt with culture shock and perspective altering, in abundance, but what modern movie has dealt with the idea that you aren't hot stuff? There are plenty of other people out there just as talented and capable, and you have to do more than work hard to succeed. It's admittedly not an easily inspirational message, but that's what caught my interest early and made me forgive the lame attempts at humor (people step in cat poop!). But then around Act Three, Post Grad guts itself for an absurdly undemanding happy ending and spills its squishy guts. Ryden gets the job she was passed over by doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING other than wait out the first hire (incidentally, class valedictorian and Ryden's mortal enemy, played by Ivan Reitman's attractive daughter -- weird). I hope this paragraph doesn't mislead people into thinking Post Grad sticks with this hardened perspective, because as soon as Ryden doesn't get her dream job it just becomes an exhausted recycling of teen flick clich

an "ok" movie. slow moving at parts which made it seem reather boring. i think alexis bledel kind of gave a "blah" performance, but at times she was still funny. jane lynch gave a good performance and as always she was funny. rent it on a rainy afternoon when theres noth else great out at the movie store.

This was a cute movie about a girl getting out of university looking to move forward with life but is struck with reality of lifes challenges. It was a good movie, entertaining but a little predictable.

The film didn't offer anything fresh to the eyes of audience. It's a film that "girls play in a slumber party but does not really watch it because they're talking". Nothing can caught your attention to watch it thoroughly although of course it still has a storyline of a normal flick but it's just "common". 3/10

Its an OK movie, but there was nothing out of the ordinary about the film. It has themes and ideas that we have seen before in other comedy'. Although I have to say that Michael Keaton was kinda funny in this movie, he was very quarky wihich I absoluteky love. However besides that, the script was very boring and conventional.

a predictable story unpredictably stopped where it was not supposed to be...leaving me speechless wondering if the shooting crew were runnning out of film at last...