With ADVENTURELAND you won't find the raunchy, SUPERBAD related laugh riot it's being marketed as. But you won't be disappointed either.

The film follows James Brennan (played with a realistic awkward-cool by Jesse Eisenberg) as he is forced to get a summer job to pay for grad school. Familiar territory? Of course it is. So's the crush and eventual heartbreak. So's the wild and crazy party with the pool scene. Much of this movie is familiar, but it never feels unoriginal. The way swapped stories of good times might bear resemblance, but seem completely unique to those telling it.

What a cast!

Kristen Stewart... I like Kristen Stewart. I do. She kind of has this half-bored, half-sleepy thing going on that, surprisingly, is kind of sexy. She's beautiful, but approachable. It makes all the sense in the world that the carnie nerds not only want on, but get all oatmeal mushy over her.

How Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig aren't headlining their own movies yet is beyond me. They're expectedly hilarious as the couple running the place. Ryan Reynolds, with toned down but still evident charm, manages to make you not hate the older musician preying on the barley legal Stewart.

Know the kid from the rollover minutes commercials? If you don't, you will soon. His name is Matt Bush and he steals every scene he's in as the obnoxious Frigo.

Those in their 40s, who remember coming of age in the mid-80s, will surely reminisce.  For younger audiences it’s a “treasure these moments” tale. The film shows you how the nights where you think nothing special is happening are the ones you'll hold closest to your heart.

Huge props and fist bumps to writer/director Greg Mottola who supposedly drew from his own experiences working at a carnival to create this. Aside from the huge, messy heart pulsing all through this thing, the man definitely has an eye. He manages to visually capture that weird contradiction that is the fairy theme park. By day it’s a paint-peeling, wood-splintering, metal-rusting eye sore. By night, against all odds and logic, the lights and fireworks transform it into true magic. 

Too early to tell, but this just might be a classic.