Youth in Revolt

I haven’t laughed this hard since, well, Black Dynamite. Man, this was funny! It’s not so much the script. It’s the precisely-timed gags and the spot-on performance of Michael Cera. Filmmakers dare to dust-off over-used lines and bits, stale to the point of cliché. But gags that would have surely fallen flat in less assured hands (i.e. the hero disguising himself as a woman, doing drugs the first time) land perfectly here with priceless results. The entire cast is hilarious. And the nerd gets the girl, which to me makes this a joyous triumph. I can’t praise it enough.