I’ll lay it out straight: I wouldn’t have seen Adventureland if I didn’t have a free ticket. Nothing about the previews or posters I’d seen had made me want to see it; it looked like “Superbad in an amusement park”. But I was completely disarmed. It was surprisingly thoughtful and sweet, and a lot smarter than I thought it would be. There are definitely moments of lowbrow humour, but this is a fairly good coming-of-age movie that is better and far more realistic than the ad campaign would indicate. Which is a shame really: the people who go see it might be drawing the wrong conclusions, while people like me who didn’t want to see it would be missing out. So go see Adventureland: you’ll be pleasantly surprised.