What Charlize embodies is not fictional, she exists, sometimes being a girl, and others being a man. We have a huge load of immature people, and unethical people, who have no problem wrecking other people's lives. Psychological problems strike the young and the old, and addiction is a result of any loss we can encounter. You will have a mixture of feelings towards this kiddish adult. I really enjoyed the movie.

Young Adult is Diablo Cody's latest utterly refreshing attempt on the life of a once-famous high school queen who was facing challenges in her life. The renowned writer of Juno is making a entirely different attempt here by depicting a mid-life crisis of Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) and her return visit to her hometown where she lived when she was a teenager.

Mavis hated the town, hated everything about it, hated all the people in it, that was, except Buddy Slade (Patrick Wilson), who used to be her boyfriend. It didn't take her long to decide that she would return and rescue Buddy who she thought was a hostage in the deadly town with his marriage and newborn daughter. She would save herself from the disappointment from her life, save Buddy from the living hell, and picked up where things ended, once and for all.

And well, you expected it. Things were not as simple as that; they never are. So get ready for the adventure in this visit and get ready to know our Mavis better.

Charlize Theron totally manipulated the role of Mavis, letting the audience get to know who Mavis Gary really was as the events continued to unfold. It was a solid, realistic and Oscar-worthy performance that blew the audience away.

Young Adult is about life, about the past and the present, about why people are easily stuck in the past and do not see a future ahead of them. This is about why we should accept the present and look forward instead of always looking back. It is also more of a drama than a comedy but still it did give me some laughs.

Young Adult is a dark comedy about a misanthropic ghost writer of Young Adult novels whose career is on the slide. She thinks that her life would be fixed if she got back together with her high school sweetheart.

Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) has had a failed marriage and drinks too much. At least she moved to the big city and became a writer.

When she hears that her former high school boyfriend Buddy Slade (Patrick Wilson) and his wife Beth (Elizabeth Reaser) have had a baby. Mavis heads back to her small hometown pretending she need to finish a property deal. She wants to win back Buddy even though he is happily married with a child.

In a bar Mavis meets Matt Freehauf (Patton Oswalt) who had a locker next to her in High School. When she sees his crutch Mavis remembers that he was badly beaten up by some jocks who wrongly thought he was gay.

This is a bittersweet comedy that lacks bites and is certainly not witty. The relationship between Mavis and Matt is the best thing about the movie, as he sees right through her shallowness. The trouble is it is Mavis who has not moved on from her life and she almost embarrasses herself at every turn. Even Buddy realises she is trouble.

The movie is too easily satisfied and feels smug that it is not following a Hollywood formula. Yet it lacks creative energy and is tired like Mavis is tired of life.