People have names like Ryden Malby only in the movies. And we're only expected to like people like Ryden Malby in the movies... though I don't see why we should give in to that kind of peer pressure.
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08/20/09
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
No one in the cast, not even the great Carol Burnett, makes much of an impression in a film that virtually defines the word 'unnecessary,' but it does manage to pull double duty as one heck of a sleep aid.
08/20/09
A feel-good movie that made me smile a lot.
08/20/09
Top CriticHopes 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
'Relax, kids,' the movie seems to say, 'life after college is like a sitcom.' Uh, yeah.
08/20/09
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
It has no idea what it wants to be; as a result, it gets nothing right.
08/19/09
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 CriticThe 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
After watching Post Grad, you may wonder whether Hollywood will ever stop making generic comedies with zero tolerance for originality.
08/19/09
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
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
A homogenized piffle about the "ordeal" of a middle-class college grad momentarily without a job.
08/19/09
Top CriticTiming’s everything in comedy, so perhaps Post Grad would have seemed peppier prior to the Great Recession; circa now, this comedy feels like a cynical stroll through the unemployment lines awaiting today’s class of seniors.
08/19/09
Post Grad is a Devil Wears Prada without the devil, a Reality Bites without any bite -- and not much reality, either.
08/19/09
A wretched dramedy about the depths of twentysomething careerist self-absorption.
08/19/09
Post Grad tries to do three things at once -- and half-hits the mark on only one.
08/18/09
Without Alexis Bledel, this pic would be a TV sitcom. With her, merely passable.
08/16/09
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