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Post Grad
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 25 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by: Kelley Fremon
Directed by: Vicky Jenson
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 21, 2009
Running Time: minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for sexual situations and brief strong language
Starring Alexis Bledel, Zach Gilford, Rodrigo Santoro, Bobby Coleman, Fred Armisen, Jane Lynch, Carol Burnett, and Michael Keaton
Ryden Malby had a plan. Do well in high school, thereby receiving a great college scholarship. Now that she’s finally graduated, it’s time for her to find a gorgeous loft apartment and land her dream job at the city’s best publishing house. (Fox Searchlight)
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What The Critics Said
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
It's a screwball comedy. It's also, I have to say, a feel-good movie that made me smile a lot.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
The material may be formulaic, but the spirit of the piece is friendly.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
Ms. Bledel works her “Gilmore Girls” charm to the hilt, but no amount of cerulean-eyed sparkle can transcend this level of thudding mediocrity.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Cliff Doerksen
Director Vicky Jenson has a sitcom script on her hands and proceeds accordingly.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
So swaddled in good intentions that it's like taking a very short journey cushioned on all sides by air bags. That are stuffed with cotton candy.
Read Full Review >St. Louis Post-Dispatch Calvin Wilson
After watching Post Grad, you may wonder whether Hollywood will ever stop making generic comedies with zero tolerance for originality.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli
A harmless, aimless, mildly funny and thoroughly predictable comic-romantic piffle.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Post Grad isn't funny, surprising, or insightful enough to provoke more than a ho-hum reaction. It's not bad in the way that many failed comedies are bad; it's simply uninspired.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Laura Bennett
A disjointed patchwork of zany character sketches lacking in coherence and credibility.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Bledel brings a sweet, steady presence, but this sort of minor project is a step backwards. It's high time she graduated on to bigger and better things.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Dan Kois
Boils down, in the end, to the age-old question: Career or life? That Post Grad draws a stark line between the two, and forces its heroine into an untenable decision, might be the most disappointing thing about a movie that never quite succeeds in capturing a generation adrift.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Vadim Rizov
In 2009. Vicky Jenson's live-action debut is as cartoonish as her work on "Shrek," and that's OK for the comic bits. The rest seems like a remarkably cynical cross-breed—for all demographics, but, ultimately, for none.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
An innocuous -- to the point of blandness -- look at the "hardships" of a recent college grad.
Read Full Review >Variety Peter Debruge
As fiction characters go, Ryden seems as dull as they come, making it hard to muster much sympathy for her plight.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Ostensibly a comedy, and a feeble and innocuous one at that, Post Grad is one of those what-were-they-thinking?
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Post Grad is a collection of unfunny, insipid and predictable vignettes in search of a movie.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
When a film whose cast includes Michael Keaton, Jane Lynch, Fred Armisen, Craig Robinson, Demetri Martin, and the now rarely seen Carol Burnett can’t scare up more than a smattering of laughs, the patient was never meant to live in the first place.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Robert Abele
A joyless fluffball about after-college job woes with a dispiriting message for smart young women.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Staff (Not credited)
A promising premise simply devolves into just another "Definitely, Maybe" or "The Proposal."
Read Full Review >New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott
Most of the time, however, Post Grad just coasts along, flat as a mortar board, and as forgettable as a ... oh, I forgot already.
Read Full Review >Time Out New York S. James Snyder
Timing’s everything in comedy, so perhaps Post Grad would have seemed peppier prior to the Great Recession; circa now, this comedy feels like a cynical stroll through the unemployment lines awaiting today’s class of seniors.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joanne Kaufman
We are meant to think they are all delightfully and amusingly eccentric (characters). Actually, they're just creepy
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Chad S. gave it a4:
Like a mediocre Woody Allen movie, even when the hyper-literate banter between Lorelai and Rory(on the much-missed WB dramedy "Gilmore Girls") wasn't quite up to form, you were still in the company of smart, articulate people. Sometimes you had to settle for "Stars Hollow Ending". Rory Gilmore, the prodigious only child of a single mother(played to perfection by Lauren Graham) was such a vivid, genuine creation, the last thing Alexis Bledel should do is play somebody who could be her less accomplished twin. Similar to Rory, in "Post-Grad", Ryden Malby graduates from college with a degree in English; she reads, lo and behold, novels. Among her favorites are J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" and Charles Bukowski's "Post Office", books you could imagine Rory reading, but not Ryden, a girl who balks at selling luggage with her old man(played by Michael Keaton) as a stopgap measure against unemployment. Ryden's highfalutin attitude towards menial labor tells me that she learned nothing from the trials and tribulations of Bukowski's alter-ego Henry Chinaski. Posited as the nice girl, Ryden is hardly sympathetic when the school valedictorian gives her a hard time by being faux-fussy with the paraphernalia, not after having just seen the working stiff lose some customers due to a woeful demeanor. Worst of all, she disrespects her father by walking off the job. Rory would never leave Lorelai in a lurch. True, it's not fair to compare roles, but that's the problem with "Post-Grad"; both girls are collegiate and relatively clean-cut. Bledel had the right idea when she played a hooker in Richard Rodriguez's "Sin City". She has to play against type.
