Post Grad Bombs in Reviews

Gilmore Girl's sweetheart and Friday Night Light's softy Zach Guilford star in Post Grad which had high potential for success with a broad fan base of teenage viewers. Unfortunetly Post Grad has been receiving some awful reviews. While only earning a mere 6% on movie critics favorite RottonTomatoes.com, viewers and critic a like both disliked this attempt at charming cute humor.

"'Post Grad' Earns a Degree In Awkwardness"

"Post Grad is a collection of unfunny, insipid and predictable vignettes in search of a movie.

The story is ostensibly about a college graduate who can't find gainful employment. But a zany family is thrown in to pad the paper-thin concept. The result doesn't even reach hackneyed sitcom status.

Alexis Bledel plays Ryden, a bland variation of her brainyGilmore Girls character. A life-long good student, she graduates with an English degree, expecting to nab a job at a publishing house.

Instead, she goes on myriad interviews, finds no work and is forced to move back home. Ryden's scheming dad, Walter (Michael Keaton), tries to interest her in a crazy venture selling belt buckles. The buckles turn out to be stolen, and he's carted off to jail. Her mother, Carmella (Jane Lynch), can't raise the bail, so she turns to her daffy mother-in-law, Maureen (Carol Burnett), who has been stashing cash in her shoes and sewing it into her pantyhose. The oxygen-toting grandma coughs up her son's bail rather than buying that fancy casket she had her eye on.

And the yuks just keep on coming.

Meanwhile, Adam (Zach Gilford) has been in love with Ryden for years, but she considers him her platonic best friend. He may be the film's most dimensional character, grappling with a decision to go to law school in New York or stay in Los Angeles to pursue music and woo Ryden.

The formulaic story is awkwardly directed by Vicky Jenson. Some scenes don't make sense, as if prior references were edited out, leaving only disjointed tidbits. In one sequence, the camera pans to a pair of lawn gnomes and focuses on them inexplicably. In another, the family is driving with a pink coffin strapped to the top of their car. A carload of swaggering thugs pulls up next to them, and one of the guys pours a bottle of brown liquid from the window. It's unclear if this gesture is meaningful or just a random act of bad script-writing.

Walter runs over the cat of handsome neighbor David (Rodrigo Santoro), and the burial is played for laughs, with the pet shoved into a flat pizza box. We're supposed to find the smashed cat and hokey backyard interment hilarious. Instead, it's just awkward and insensitive.

It's not unusual anymore to earn a college diploma and not find work. What is a head-scratcher is why anyone would make a movie this clunky and cringe-worthy."

Claudia Pulg- USA TODAY