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‘Youth in Revolt’: Sex – One teenager’s final frontier

By DFCS on Wednesday, 13th January 2010
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From member Robert Denerstein:

Michael Cera is inspired to be bold by Portia Doubleday.

Michael Cera carries the burden of his familiar presence lightly enough to keep from wearing out his welcome. In Youth in Revolt, Cera (familiar from Juno and Superbad) again follows in his own footsteps, playing a baby-faced high-school kid who’s afraid he’ll die a virgin.

Obviously, we’ve been down this road before, but director Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl and Chuck & Buck) works hard to provide some fresh views, an effort that probably leads to the movie’s overly generous helping of eccentricity. It’s possible to argue that Youth in Revolt is too quirky by half…

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