Courier-Post from Camden, New Jersey • Page 61

www.courierpostonline.comscene COURIER-POST, Friday, January 8, 2010 7SC DIVERSIONS I MOVIE REVIEWS YouthSmart dialogue and deadpan delivery don't help LeapThis Ireland is not worth the trip TOUTH IN REVOLT of four Rated (sexual content, language and drug use) The cast Nick Twisp: Michael Cera Jerry: Zach Galifianakis Estelle Twisp: Jean Smart George Twisp: Steve Buscemi Sheeni Saunders: Portia Doubleday Serge Gainsbourg: Jean Paul Belmondo Lance Wescott: Ray Liotta Mr. Ferguson: Fred Willard Directed by Miguel Arteta. Weinstein Co. Running time: 90 minutes. Opens today.

a little fun, including a mushroom trip. Director Miguel Arteta inserts interludes of animation, stop-motion and even claymation. The inventiveness, though, is overdone. Arteta's film has whimsy and a few great lines, but not enough originality. Nick and Sheeni's artistic leanings are really only that Sheeni isn't really the romantic that Nick is, and she confident and sexual is clearly out of his league.

Doubleday, in her first real role, has an evident screen presence. She pulls Sheeni away from cliche idiosyncrasy and toward femme fa-tale, which would have been a better direction for farce. It's a good instinct and one that "Youth in Revolt" could have used: Drop the faux clever shtick. that he's going to a well of hipster cute a little too often. Unfortunately, playing two roles in "Youth in Revolt" only serves as a reminder of a lack of range.

Cera is clever and romantic and has a knack for a deadpan delivery beyond most all actors his age or older. But he works better in more realistic work, where his subtlety is less showy. Unfortunately, there's little actual rebelliousness in "Youth in Revolt" Almost without exception, the adults are portrayed as either louts, bores or nuts. Buscemi plays Nick's father, who's given little more than anger or annoyance to play. Ray Liotta plays a police officer whom Nick's mother enterprisingly picks up when the other dies.

Only Fred Willard, as a weird neighbor, gets to have overnight stays in quaint bed-and-breakfasts that require not only that Anna and Declan pretend to be married, but to kiss in front of the other guests at dinner, as well. Is there any question that what we think will happen does, indeed, happen? Of course not. It's just a matter of getting there, and "Leap Year" eventually does arrive at its preordained conclusion, with a few detours through some beautiful Irish countryside and hackneyed storytelling devices, including stumbling onto a wedding in progress along the way. Even with Adams and Goode, it's hardly worth the trip. courierpostonljne WEB EXTRA To see a trailer of 'Youth in visit our Web site and add scene Continued from Page 5SC them.

So he invents an alter ego, Francois Dillinger, a brash French playboy in shades, a pencil-thin mustache and an ascot. He makes Nick cause explosions and mayhem and make a more aggressive move for SheenL Thus, with smart dialogue that calls attention to itself and a manifested devil-on-the-shoulder, "Youth in Revolt" is a bit like a combination of "Juno" and "Fight Club." It's a good enough premise, but it comes off disappointingly. Cera's search for the right material after his breakthrough on "Arrested Development" and in "Su-perbad" has been obvious to many and has increasingly found critics. There's a sense ITHYfllTTMrii II ViM V- i camderjcounty Board of Freeholders Presents Continued from Page 6SC up. Bad weather lands Anna in Dingle, a tiny town where she is forced to spend the night in a pub and hotel owned by Declan, played naturally by Goode.

She's desperate to get to Dublin, he's desperate for money, so, despite an innate dislike for one another he's as laid back as she is uptight they embark on a road trip. Google maps puts the trip from Dingle to Dublin at about four and a half hours by car. You could walk it in two days. But such a straightforward journey wouldn't allow for visits to romantic castle ruins, or FELIX CAVALIERE'S RASCALS 'Good Lovin" "Croovin "People Got To Be Free" Z7Zf. i it r.va DENNIS FLYER II 1 A I I (K 1 tLk iMhPjanf, "Wtuinh 77.M A iin 3EEI2J IF ROSANNE Cf'X GASHH VmA VwwtLn-'DmAAf.

3cl rSvIm Joan JJJ 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 I I (-11 1 1 a 91 GET THE LPP Sek the YouTube LIVE! MMEEEEEEZ. QM imhii.ti.tttuti fl ll MOWS MOOUCEDOT 033.