John Hughes is dead, his basic ideas live on, stolen, if you will.

So day 2 of the Con, Downey's glorious face appeared once more for Iron Man 2 footage, what could be more exciting? Sure the prospect of Avatar footage later on, which turned out to be shit, but I digress, a non-secret screening of Adventureland, that's still not out in the UK yet, occurred, a film that was a critical success but commercial failure, about 1 hour and 50 minutes too long considering it's near 2 hour run time.

The trailers made it a light comedy coming of age film from Greg Mottolla, most notably the helmer of Superbad, a film that is already tired and dull, in reality it's a dark drama with people being punched in the balls as it's jokes, about a young man who has to work at a bad theme park to earn money, as you do, and ends up hanging out with Martin Starr's gloomy oddity, sultry slut Kristen Stewart and a group of 80's and teen cliches that are relatively 'wafer thin'.

He's a virgin, by choice, he's got unsupportive parents, he's got a friend who just hits him in the balls, one dimensional like them all, and he's got limited direction. For a summer he has some partying and stuff, so he goes to a party, supplies the drugs, then it all becomes a relationship film about two boring people surrounded by people who are dull as hell.

Jesse Eisenberg was the lead in two of my favourite films, Roger Dodger and The Squid And The Whale, both with him as the neurotic teen virgin character trying to lose it, again he does that schtick, but the script is awful, it's got no jokes, plot, direction or interest in the characters, things happen, but there's no effect on the audiences, it's just one of the kinds of films I can't stand, it's boring, depressing, and with a solid cast it's shockingly uninteresting.

1/10