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One of my all time favorites.

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

'Adult World' is one of a long line of these 'charming black comedies' that seem to be everywhere right now.It's almost as if the creative powers that be were given a simple brief - make Emma Roberts look good in this film.Now, I like Emma Roberts as an actress, so it was fun to see her playing a character with lots of different sides (sweet, flirty, neurotic etc.) but this film doesn't really work.Does it want to focus on the idea of a prude working in an adult movie store? Or is it the story of a girl learning from a crotchety old mentor? Nobody seems to know, so we get a mix of both that is uneven. John Cusack seems to be doing a Bill Murray impression as well.A nice attempt at a lot of things. Unsuccessful in them all.

I'm not familiar with Emma Roberts. But I thought she was quite effective here. I totally bought her rendition of a clueless college kid with lots of "feelings."It was a tad depressing to see a depiction of another brainless kid with massive college loan debt and no knowledge of anything under the sun. Why do parents buy into that scam. At least here the parents try to point out the danger of her absurd and spoiled pursuit. But of course they coddled her and bankrolled it for years.The other silly notion that liberal arts grads. carry around is that they were all meant to do something unique and special. Cusack's character has some of the best lines in the movie when he reminds her that not everyone is talented or destined for greatness.Congratulations to the writers for also having the young male lead remind our girl that she was a worthless, lazy employee and an elitist. With the help of these good friends, she manages to learn something.We later learn that the young male lead has his own hobbies and passions which this self-absorbed pixie never bothered to inquire about. But it was refreshing that she was a virgin and that the young man took time to really get to know her.I also appreciate the Syracuse in Winter setting. Like I've said in other reviews, not every movie has to take place in some glamorous mainstream city. There are plenty of human stories taking shape in gray places that no one would otherwise think about if they weren't the setting in a movie.There's not much memorable music here, which is fine, because it was a dialogue and character-driven half-comedy. I don't need Indie mood music for such a film. There are no sexy scenes worth mentioning by the way. Roberts goes without makeup and our old mentor played by Cusack is refreshingly not a "perv."

What a stinker this was! Not sure where all the praise for Emma Roberts comes from but she came off as an adolescent teenager in this one rather than a young adult. I lost track of where she was living throughout the movie (actually I stopped caring). Shannon Woodward had a throwaway role that was a complete waste of her talent. John Cusack and Evan Peters were the only thing making this watchable. The scenes with her family made no sense and were merely a plot device. This movie is just tedious and seems to go nowhere. The adult store was hardly explored and could of led to some real fun but instead fell flat. I mean talk about dull customers, that is the best they could come up with? Maybe Shannon Woodward should of played a customer.

Spoiler: This film is so poor that I am going out of my way to warn others.A spoiled girl spends her parent's money to go to college and get a useless degree in Poetry. She indulges herself and believes that she has the stuff she needs to be a great poet even though she has never published and owns a huge collection of rejection letters. Like the author of the movie script, she forces others to listen to her adolescent drivel, and discovers a minor poet who has actually published (long ago) and whines begging him to take her on as his protégé, despite the fact that he does everything he can to make her understand that he is not interested.The joke is on the audience--like the fictional poetess, the real author of the film is an amateur of negligible talent.