But wait: This charming, laid-back, set-in-the-’80s movie has appreciation for smaller life-changing moment and it is so predictability that is making up.
Director-writer Greg Mottola’s semi-autobiographical story is wearing its lightly 1987-ness, still movie is firmly rooted enough in place and time that will feel at home anyone near the hero’s age.

More importantly, “Adventureland” has earned sweetness of edge-of-adulthood and they have characters with hearts that are real under those goofy T-shirts.
After James (Jesse Eisenberg) finishes his college, he is set in with his buddy roam Europe when James parents deliver some crushing news: He won’t get the money that was supposed to be graduation present and they will move to Pittsburgh.

To save money for grad school that is in New York, James takes job in Adventureland, theme park of mom-and-pop. Drawn into social life of place, James and his oddball befriend Joel (Martin Starr), get life lessons by guy Connell (Ryan Reynolds) suave maintenance and falls for Emily (Kristen Stewart) hard.

Meanwhile, corn-dog smells wafts through animal prizes, lights of Centipede game beckon and “Rock Me Amadeus” are blasted endlessly over the night. And that’s all.

To say James’ and Em’ romance is stop-and-start, or that he had learned the park owners (“SNL’s” Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader) are much more cooler than he thought, while the Connell is also much more pathetic, it’s obvious.

At times, some things are much too obvious: Underdog-as-champ sensibility has been pushed into implausibility when park hottie (Margarita Levieva) is asking James out, and there is no surprise that Emily has secret.

(Yes, sound that you are hearing right now are jaws dropping on Hollywood and all around him.) And the other weekend’s big movie, “Adventureland” had difficult time getting there motor running, by grossing only $2.2 mil on their first day. Friday’s rankings of movies are below, and check here tomorrow for full week recap in Box Office Report.

1. “Fast & Furious” – $30.1 mil
2. “Monsters vs. Aliens” – $8.9 mil
3. “The Haunting in Connecticut” – $3.7 mil
4. “I Love You, Man” – $2.7 mil
5. “Knowing” – $2.7 mil
6. “Adventureland” – $2.2 mil

The animated Monster vs Aliens had become viable 3-D big-budget film, and Hollywood on Friday opening was watching to see commercially viable 3-D.

The movie has set an opening week record $33 million and more than that in 3-D screens, and its in US and Canada total take $59.3 million, including 2-D theaters, it was on the high end on analysts forecasts.

DreamWorks Animation Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Katzenberg as result, one of 3-D cheerleaders biggest industry’s. Katzenberg told to Reuters: “I think this is the beginning of an era and i think we’re going to see a lot of very exciting films and filmmakers working using this new technique”.

Katzenberg said, whose studio is going to release all movies in 3-D in future “My hope is that within the next 18 month in North America we’ll get to 7,000 or 8,000 (3-D) screens, which is what we need to be able to accommodate two wide releases ae the same time.”

Most expectation were high met by the debut. The second place has taken The haunting in Connecticut which was also opened good , horror flic with $23 million. Third place with $14.7 million has taken Knowing the apocalyptic thriller with Nicolas Cage.In 10 days they had $46.2 million.
Fourth place with $12.6 million has taken I Love You, Man a comedy with Paul Rudd. Over 2 weekends they had $37 million.

12 Rounds, the action movie has met low end of expectation , $5.3 million which id good for 7th place.
Monsters helped sales 45% of drive tickets ahead of last weekends pace , 58% ahead on the same week last year.