'Mean Girls' is a "crispy on the edge but soft in the middle" comedy that discusses a fragile subject matter. Seven years later, a movie called 'Young Adult' is released to the world. Unlike the Lindsay Lohan above-average teen-com, 'Young Adult' is a mean-spirited movie and the meanness comes from its core. Whether or not the movie is pure-evil and immaturity, its entertainment value is suspended in the air, as if taking flight and its destination is in heavens.
Fun and entertaining from bones to flesh, 'Young Adult' tackles more than its base subject, this time immaturity and letting go. A rare find in these types of flicks.
Charlize Theron ('Snow White in the Huntsman'; 'Prometheus') is Mavis Gary, a thirty-somethin' ghostwriter to a young adult book series who's primary concern at the moment is to steal his long-lost former-flame, Buddy Slade (played by Patrick Wilson from 'Watchmen') from his wife Beth (Elizabeth Reaser). Our Mavis can be safely tagged as: "wrecked". She is up for the "last and final" book of the series and she finds herself nowhere near the start of this writing. Additionally, she figures she starts to be alcoholic. She is Mercury High's former prom queen and she's back to get his ex-beau to her arms once more. She hates Mercury and practically blabbers mean things 20 hours each day.
In a bar, she runs into an old cripple schoolmate, Matt Freehauf (Patton Oswalt) who unfortunately in his senior-something high school years was beaten for being gay. Turns out Matt is in fact a straight guy, thus then referred to as: "hate crime guy" basically the remaining years of his life. Like the shutter of a camera, the two went along well. Matt became the input of all of the evil acts that Mavis got in store. One-by-one Mavis tells them to Matt, until she reaches to her attempt to finally get Buddy back. The two join together to a meaningless endeavor that will generate smirks (I can assure you that) to the masses.
There's extreme audacity that is at one point deafening in this movie. People don't change. Mavis' character makes that notion appear very legit, thanks greatly to Charlize Theron's gritty portrayal. There was an authentic vibe to it that is when told in words, hard to explain. The chemistry of a beautifully contrasted pair of characters (those of Mavis' and Matt's) make a breathtaking compound. I bought that compound. Theron and Oswalt sold this movie to me.
There is still spacious room for recognition for director Jason Reitman, offering us an entirely different direction to where most feel-bad movies are headed. In the end of the movie, there's this sting that you'll feel, implying that you should be happy because the bitch didn't end up with her happy ending.
'Young Adult' is a movie that plays around with its derange execution, and in the process, has produced us one mean-spirited movie to mean back, but to be treasured sincerely.
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