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Reduce, reuse, ‘Revolt’
Michael Cera and Portia Doubleday are adorable deer in pubertys headlights in Youth in Revolt.
By Jeremy Martin
I dont want to be one of those alarmist film critics always telling you how to live, but, guys, seriously, we are rapidly depleting the worlds supply of teenage-sex comedies. Most are made of at least 75-percent recycled materials, but our creation of new gags when the old ones are still good the uncomfortably realistic masturbation scenes, the wacky coitus interruptus, the epileptic stripper getting stabbed in the face with a fork (OK, that one was just Miss March) can only be labeled conspicuous consumption. If we dont stop soon, there may be no boner jokes left for our childrens children.
Youth in Revolt, the latest cinematic chronicle of a losers epic battle with his cherry, inevitably repeats most of the above scenes and burns through a few more tropes from Hollywoods endangered-cliché list: the horny Indian guy (one count), multiple personalities (one count), unintentional drug use by t …
Toronto Strip Clubs: Reduce, reuse, ‘Revolt’
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