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MARCH 30, 2009

What was your worst summer job?

That's a nice question to begin the workweek, for those of us lucky enough to still have jobs. But it's appropriate since it's also the tagline for the stuck-in-the-80's-so-far-it-burps-Falco teen comedy Adventureland, opening Friday.

Adventureland Adventureland stars Kristen Stewart (Twilight) and Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale) as employees of an amusement park, dealing with a summer of rude patrons, slacking pastimes and romance. Greg Mottola's movie was filmed at Pennsylvania's famed Kennywood park that Princess Di often visited while growing up near Pittsburgh, and she always insisted we should visit. After Adventureland, I feel like I have eaten too many elephant ears before riding the Jumbler too many times.

Jerry

Check out the trailer while I get the review done and a few other things, while preparing for an interview scheduled later with the king of comedy, Jerry Lewis, advancing his Saturday night gig at Ruth Eckerd Hall. Then I'm off to see Vin Diesel's return to the Fast & Furious automobile-erotic franchise, after his forays into serious thespianism didn't work out.

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For new movie reviews and movie news, this blog's for you. Steve Persall, movie critic for the St. Petersburg Times, weighs in on blockbuster movies, small-budget movies, the best movies, the worst movies ever and everything in between. Steve was conceived behind a drive-in movie theater his father operated and raised in projection booths and concession stands. He doesn't care how you did it up north.

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