A joyless fluffball about after-college job woes with a dispiriting message for smart young women.
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08/21/09
Post Grad (2009)
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Reviews Counted:78
Fresh:7
Rotten:71
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: A lightweight, unambitious comedy, Post Grad features fine actors that can do little with its middling, uninspiring script.
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Ryden Malby (Bledel) 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... [More]
Starring: Alexis Bledel, Zach Gilford, Rodrigo Santoro, Jane Lynch
Director: Vicky Jenson
Reviews for Post Grad
Top CriticMerely lazy and routine.
08/20/09
The only thing that works in this film is Zach Gilford, otherwise it feels like a bad mashup of two screenplays, with a terrible life lesson.
08/25/09
Near the end of the story, Michael Keaton utters what could come to be regarded as the direst threat in movie history: 'From now on, it's Malby time.'
08/21/09
The uncertainty of post-college life is a potential gold mine of interesting material, and this movie avoids nearly all of it.
08/20/09
A disjointed patchwork of zany character sketches lacking in coherence and credibility.
08/20/09
Post Grad isn't funny, surprising, or insightful enough to provoke more than a ho-hum reaction.
08/21/09
I would like to take this occasion to lodge a complaint. There is no valid reason, none in the observable universe, why mainstream romantic comedies must adhere to the same script.
08/21/09
Aims for the quirkiness of Little Miss Sunshine and misses by a mile.
09/03/09
The makers of Post Grad managed to squander a promising and timely concept -- relative scarcity in the job market -- by turning in a screaming dud of a comedy.
08/28/09
it's not the supporting cast that makes this movie suffer. It's the main characters... they're self-centered, whiney and utterly abrasive people
08/21/09
Note to the writer Kelly Fremon: Is Ryden postgraduation or postmortem?
08/21/09
Top CriticBland but certainly not awful, 'Post Grad' will commence quickly to the rental shelf.
09/05/09
A sweet romantic comedy that would be better suited as a TV movie rather than big screen fare
08/25/09
Post-Grad finds Alexis Bledel sinking into the quicksand of typecasting, playing nearly the same role she perfected during seven seasons as the ambitious Rory on Gilmore Girls.
08/28/09
As fiction characters go, Ryden seems as dull as they come, making it hard to muster much sympathy for her plight.
08/19/09
Top CriticComedies like I Love You, Beth Cooper and My Life in Ruins have already set a very low bar for Fox ... Post Grad still finds room to lower that bar even further.
08/20/09
Ah, the problems of twenty-somethings in the Real(ly Fake) World.
08/20/09
The greatest actress in the history of drama couldn't make first-timer Kelly Fremon's sow's ear of a screenplay into a sow's ear sandwich, much less a silk purse.
08/19/09
A feel-good movie that made me smile a lot.
08/20/09
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