James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) has his life all planned out for himself. With his degree in literature finally completed at Oberlin College, he’ll spend the summer in Europe with his best friend before going to grad school studying journalism at Columbia University. Everything is playing out as it should his until his parent’s (Wendie Malick and Jack Gilpin) throw out a curve ball and inform him they can not foot the bill for Europe or grad school. After a series of dead ends on the job front, James find’s himself working at a local amusement park working games. Adventureland may be a horrible job yet through the course of the summer he may meet people that will change his life forever. The park is full colorful co-workers like eccentric owners Bobby (Bill Hader) and Paulette (Kristen Wiig), park mechanic Mike Connell (Ryan Reynolds) who rumors say once played with Lou Reed, sex kitten Lisa P. (Margarita Levieva) and Emily "Em" Lewin (Kristen Stewart) who also works games and may become the love of his life. In fact, this might turn out to be the greatest and worst summers of James’s life.

Extras

First up are a couple of Blu-ray exclusives that are silly and mindless, but great to see studios starting to think about ways to lure consumers to buy the film on the Blu-ray format. The first are two short features focusing on two of the film’s characters. Frigo's Taps- A Satiric “How To” on Inflicting Unexpected Pain, is Matt Bush’s Tommy Friago character and how he pulled off his ball smacking techniques through the course of the film. Lisa P's Guide to Style has Margarita Levieva in character and filmed very early awful Mtv 80’s style. Lastly we have Welcome to Adventureland, a series of fake TV promos for the amusement park Adventureland filmed in a very cheap pedestrian style.

The shared bonus material starts off with a commentary track with writer/director Greg Mottola and lead actor Jesse Eisenberg. It’s a great commentary track that may be funnier than the film. Just My Life: The Making of Adventureland is an almost twenty minute feature on the whole process of Mottola bringing the film to the screen. It includes a few outtakes not included in the deleted scenes. Speaking of, there are three deleted scenes, an option to select scenes by songs and finally a digital copy for your iPod.

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