Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Maybe it's because Nick Twisp reminds me a little of myself... Michael Cera plays another awkward role (which he always does well) as a teenager who struggles without seeing his true love. Youth In Revolt is smart, sophisticated and charming reminding me of similar movies such as Adventureland and Easy A. It's not a laugh out loud comedy but it does deliver a warming,relatable character in the split personality of Nick Twisp. Even when he's causing trouble, you feel like rooting for Cera. When he's not,you almost feel the frustration his character is going through. I Recommend this movie to anyone who wants a good comedy to watch.

I was more than a little surprised with "Youth in Revolt", especially because I thought it to be just another mainstream late-teenage comedy like so many others in that genre.However, the storyline in the movie is good, spiced up with the right amount of absurdity, comedy and awkward moments. This is not really the type of comedy that will have you laughing from start to end of the movie, but it uses comedy well and at the right moments. And yes, this is a late-teen comedy, but there is so much more to the movie than just teenagers getting drunk and trying to get laid. There are many levels to this movie, so there is something for just about everyone.What is more impressive is the people on the cast list. As always, then Michael Cera did a spot on job with his role in the movie. But the entire movie was just filled with great actors and actresses and great names: Steve Buscemi, Jean Smart, Zach Galifianakis, Fred Willard, Ray Liotta, Justin Long, M. Emmet Walsh, and more."Youth in Revolt" is a great and refreshing movie if you haven't already seen it. I found it by sheer luck in a second hand store and bought it as part of a bundle deal. I was impressed with the movie, and was thoroughly enjoying it and entertained by it.

This film has VERY dry humor, i think that's the main reason why people have rated the film pretty low. I love dry humor, they for me are the best kind of films but i must admit the first time i watched this i wasn't really a huge fan, i got kind of bored and it didn't really make me laugh but after seeing it a few more times on TV i have really come around to the film and its defiantly one i would recommend to anyone who likes a funny/dorky/teen film. cera is one of the best but unappreciated actors around right now, he has made soooo many amazing films the last few years like superbad,scott pilgrim and juno. he in my eyes is the modern day jason biggs and definitively has an amazing future.what makes the film so excellent is the strangeness of cera's double role play between the main character nick and his darker side francois (who has a mustache btw) it follows a story about a guy trying to get a girl which everyone can relate to but it also follow a bad home life and how he deals with both of these things. just watch this film people, trust me you will not be let down.

"Youth in Revolt" is a fairly amusing comedy starring Michael Cera as Nick Twisp, a shy, socially inept teenager who falls in love with Sheeni, a girl he meets whilst on a camping trip.The film's narrative is a twist on your typical "nice guys finish last" tale, Twisp realising that he must literally reinvent himself as a rebellious "bad boy" in order to win Sheeni's love. And so Twisp creates an alter ego called Francois Dillinger – the name a play on both outlaw John Dillinger and Jean Luc Godard anti-heros – and sets about committing various crimes and questionable acts. Cue much hilarity.It's a good idea for a film, but as most romantic comedies actually feature the "nice guy winning", and as "Youth in Revolt" ends with both Sheeni and Twisp realising that "bad boys" aren't what they're looking for, the film's narrative arc seems strangely pointless. It's formulaic rather than daring.The film does one interesting thing, though. Sheeni comes from a repressive suburban home, her family a pair of ultra right wing Christians. This results in Sheeni and her siblings "revolting" against their fundamentalist parents by smoking pot and immersing themselves in Parisian fantasies, sex, New Wave cinema and Serge Gainsbourg records. Meanwhile, Nick's case is the opposite. His household is populated by potheads, slackers, sex monkeys and bums, whom Nick "revolts" against by immersing himself in mellow, hipster affections (50s Frank Sinatra, classic films, books etc). Later he will embody Jean Paul Belmondo's Michael in Godard's "A Bout De Soufflé". So the film essentially has ultra right-wing conservatism/authoritarianism breeding an extrovert and ultra lax, liberalism/uninhibitedness breeding an introvert. Sheeni then unwittingly becomes her parents, trying to change and force an image up Nick, which of course backfires spectacularly. Lesson? People always define themselves in opposition to something, and forcing others often reinforces behaviour rather than instigating changes.The film was directed by Miguel Arteta, who specilizes in pretty good black comedies. The majority of his films see characters trying and failing to break free of "who they are", be they Mexican kids trying to escape poverty ("Star Maps"), infantalized gay artists trying to grow up and/or turn straight ("Chuck and Buck"), frumpy cashiers trying to escape stagnated marriages ("The Good Girl"), or introverted insurance agents ("Cedar Rapids") wrestling with personal growth. Your classic Arteta character is caught between personal desires and socio-genetic hard-coding. As he becomes more mainstream/successful, Arteta's tales of personal growth become less pessimistic, his characters fates and personalities no longer fixed, or even contingent, but subordinate to old fashioned Hollywood wish fulfilment.7.9/10 – Needs more jokes. Worth on viewing.