Cedar Rapids - ***1/2

Nice guy leaves his cozy surroundings and gets sucked into a lifestyle of chaos and debauchery... It's a familiar comedy premise, and a tired one at that. Ed Helms plays our nice guy, Tim Lippe, a small town insurance agent chosen to go to an annual insurance convention, where the Twin Diamond Award is given to the representative who displays outstanding character and respect for God. What's amazing about Cedar Rapids is that it completely sidesteps all of the boring pratfalls that most films of this kind seem to indulge.

Youth in Revolt - **

This is a one joke movie, with not enough of the joke. Michael Cera plays George-Michael Bluth Paulie Bleeker Nick Twisp, a boring loser who invents an alter-ego, Francois Dillinger so that he can impress a girl that he is in love with. Unfortunately Francois enters the film too late and isn't in it enough to make me want to like the parts he's absent from.

I saw this film about a month ago and can't remember any of the details, good or bad. And that's probably the most accurate way to describe the film: wholly forgettable.