What it eventually becomes is not so much a treatise on the inequities of the workplace as another romantic comedy, light on the comedy and not much heavier on the romance.
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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
Though supporting players Jane Lynch, Michael Keaton, and Burnett make a valiant go of it, the film, perhaps a casualty of its own meandering aspirations, never graduates to anything special.
08/19/09
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
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
It's a harmless movie that could have been even better if they made Michael Keaton the main star.
08/29/09
Often drags and falls flat as a stale, contrived drama and painfully unfunny comedy with forgettable, cardboard characters.
08/21/09
It's pleasant enough, which is an OK description for a summer afternoon, but not for a movie. At least not one with ambition beyond the standard fare.
08/19/09
Post Grad needs to go back to school.
08/20/09
Hopes to be many things to many different audiences. It's a meandering mess of a motion picture, enlivened by a few performances, but ultimately, and quite aggressively, ineffectual and dreary.
08/20/09
After watching Post Grad, you may wonder whether Hollywood will ever stop making generic comedies with zero tolerance for originality.
08/19/09
Post Grad - 'Gilmore Girl' gone mild
08/22/09
It has no idea what it wants to be; as a result, it gets nothing right.
08/19/09
Post Grad is a collection of unfunny, insipid and predictable vignettes in search of a movie.
08/20/09
Post Grad is an annoying, tedious little film that touts a young woman's desire to fulfill her dreams, at least until she drops them and everything else and runs across the country to follow a boy.
08/21/09
A movie that never quite succeeds in capturing a generation adrift.
08/21/09
Post Grad is like mashed potatoes without gravy, vanilla ice cream without syrup, seltzer without flavor.
08/21/09
Superficial and, by the end, insulting, such an anti-feminist slap in the face that one can scarcely believe the film was written and directed by women.
08/20/09
Comedies 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
If Post Grad were a job applicant, it would not be hired. In all likelihood, it would have gotten lost between the elevator and the office, then sat on the floor and dribbled until someone called security.
08/21/09
A feature-length sitcom,...the kind of slight, vacuous comedy that evaporates long before it completes its tedious circuit to a foreordained happy ending.
08/20/09
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