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 CriticOften drags and falls flat as a stale, contrived drama and painfully unfunny comedy with forgettable, cardboard characters.
08/21/09
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
It should be popular fare at slumber parties for diligent girls well into the next decade.
08/21/09
Note to the writer Kelly Fremon: Is Ryden postgraduation or postmortem?
08/21/09
Top CriticSweet but instantly forgettable; a fantasy version of post-college life carefully structured to offend no one -- and intrigue no one.
08/21/09
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.
08/21/09
As for Bledel, she's certainly likeable, but lacks any real charisma here.
08/21/09
Post Grad may be the strangest film of 2009. Unfortunately, not strange in a good way, strange in a bad way.
08/21/09
Alexis Bledel is miscast as an oddball in Post Grad, but the rest of the movie has oddity aplenty.
08/21/09
Post Grad deserves a failing grade.
08/21/09
Post Grad delivers a murky message about love, work, family and Eskimo Pies.
08/21/09
A movie that never quite succeeds in capturing a generation adrift.
08/21/09
In Post Grad, although screwiness abounds, I was wishing there were a bit more rule-breaking.
08/21/09
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
Post Grad is all about what happens after you get your diploma, but the movie itself doesn't even earn an E for effort, let alone make the grade.
08/21/09
Jenson and Fremon want to toss in a love triangle, incorporate wacky family problems, and attempt to teach us a lesson about what is really important in life. YUCK!
08/21/09
The Proposal and The Ugly Truth only wish they had some of the charm of unpretentious diversions such as Bandslam or Post Grad.
08/21/09
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