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A disjointed patchwork of zany character sketches lacking in coherence and credibility.
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So swaddled in good intentions that it's like taking a very short journey cushioned on all sides by air bags. That are stuffed with cotton candy.
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An innocuous -- to the point of blandness -- look at the "hardships" of a recent college grad.
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Bledel brings a sweet, steady presence, but this sort of minor project is a step backwards. It's high time she graduated on to bigger and better things.
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Post Grad isn't funny, surprising, or insightful enough to provoke more than a ho-hum reaction. It's not bad in the way that many failed comedies are bad; it's simply uninspired.
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Bland to the point of pointlessness.
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A harmless, aimless, mildly funny and thoroughly predictable comic-romantic piffle.
Robert Abele
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A joyless fluffball about after-college job woes with a dispiriting message for smart young women.
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Most of the time, however, Post Grad just coasts along, flat as a mortar board, and as forgettable as a. oh, I forgot already.
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Ostensibly a comedy, and a feeble and innocuous one at that, Post Grad is one of those what-were-they-thinking?
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When a film whose cast includes Michael Keaton, Jane Lynch, Fred Armisen, Craig Robinson, Demetri Martin, and the now rarely seen Carol Burnett cant scare up more than a smattering of laughs, the patient was never meant to live in the first place.
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As fiction characters go, Ryden seems as dull as they come, making it hard to muster much sympathy for her plight.
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It's a screwball comedy. It's also, I have to say, a feel-good movie that made me smile a lot.
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In 2009. Vicky Jenson's live-action debut is as cartoonish as her work on "Shrek," and that's OK for the comic bits. The rest seems like a remarkably cynical cross-breedfor all demographics, but, ultimately, for none.
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An annoying, tedious little film.
Calvin Wilson
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After watching Post Grad, you may wonder whether Hollywood will ever stop making generic comedies with zero tolerance for originality.
Michael Phillips
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The material may be formulaic, but the spirit of the piece is friendly.
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Like a mediocre Woody Allen movie, even when the hyper-literate banter between Lorelai and Rory(on the much-missed WB dramedy "Gilmore Girls") wasn't quite up to form, you were still in the company of smart, articulate people. Sometimes you had to settle for "Stars Hollow Ending". Rory Gilmore, the prodigious only child of a single mother(played to perfection by Lauren Graham) was such a vivid, genuine creation, the last thing Alexis Bledel should do is play somebody who could be her less accomplished twin. Similar to Rory, in "Post-Grad", Ryden Malby graduates from college with a degree in English; she reads, lo and behold, novels. Among her favorites are J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" and Charles Bukowski's "Post Office", books you could imagine Rory reading, but not Ryden, a girl who balks at selling luggage with her old man(played by Michael Keaton) as a stopgap measure against unemployment. Ryden's highfalutin attitude towards menial labor tells me that she learned nothing from the trials and tribulations of Bukowski's alter-ego Henry Chinaski. Posited as the nice girl, Ryden is hardly sympathetic when the school valedictorian gives her a hard time by being faux-fussy with the paraphernalia, not after having just seen the working stiff lose some customers due to a woeful demeanor. Worst of all, she disrespects her father by walking off the job. Rory would never leave Lorelai in a lurch. True, it's not fair to compare roles, but that's the problem with "Post-Grad"; both girls are collegiate and relatively clean-cut. Bledel had the right idea when she played a hooker in Richard Rodriguez's "Sin City". She has to play against type.
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Ms. Bledel works her Gilmore Girls charm to the hilt, but no amount of cerulean-eyed sparkle can transcend this level of thudding mediocrity.
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Post Grad is a collection of unfunny, insipid and predictable vignettes in search of a movie.
Joanne Kaufman
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We are meant to think they are all delightfully and amusingly eccentric (characters). Actually, they're just creepy
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Dismayingly conservative dramedy.
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A promising premise simply devolves into just another "Definitely, Maybe" or "The Proposal."
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Director Vicky Jenson has a sitcom script on her hands and proceeds accordingly.
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Timings 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 todays class of seniors.
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Boils down, in the end, to the age-old question: Career or life? That Post Grad draws a stark line between the two, and forces its heroine into an untenable decision, might be the most disappointing thing about a movie that never quite succeeds in capturing a generation adrift.
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