Who says the 80's only had crappy music? The Replacements, Husker Du, Nick Lowe, Velvet Underground, New York Dolls, Big Star, this sounds a lot like what's on my Ipod. It's also the base of the soundtrack for the movie Adventureland. Of course there are also such 80's luminaries as Whitesnake, Wang Chung, The Outfield and Falco present as well.
If you can't tell, I felt the music in Adventureland out-shined the movie itself. That's not to say that I didn't enjoy the film because I really did, it's just that when the opening credits play "Bastards of Young" over them you've got a lot to live up to in my book. The biggest problem is that the marketing for the film made it look like wacky comedy and except for a few moments, it's a lot more of a serious coming of age movie.
The 2 leads, Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, have good chemistry and the more comic relief roles are well played by Bill Hader, Kristen Wig, and the kid that runs around punching people in the balls for the entire movie. There are a few pacing issues and a lot of the characters can be offputting at times but overall it's a good example of a simple story told well.
Being a dialogue driven Dramedy there isn't much for the Blu-ray to do. The image is fine but the movie isn't filmed in a way that's going to be very impressive in high-def. The audio is pretty much the same. The music sounds great in all it's uncompressed glory but that's about all that is noteworthy.
Adventureland is different than what I thought it would be but due to the performances and the soundtrack I really enjoyed it.
Ratings:
Movie: 4/5
Blu-ray: 3/5
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