What makes it different from others?

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Dark comedy with charm and a modern story line. In this day and age its impossible to find a movie that captures modern issues with satirical comedy and this movie does it! I saw Young Adult in theaters a couple years out of college and still refer to it as one of my favorite movies a decade later. Charlize Theron is spectacular at capturing the realistic dilemma that young women go through when they finish college in a big city and re visit their home towns. Some men have mid life crises and some women have quarter life cries... this movie depicts just that.

Charlize Theron was very good in this. The movie itself is quirky, weird and darkly funny. One of those feel-bad movies. with a nothing sort of story that follows a (YA) author who returns to her hometown to try and relive her glory days and seduce her happily married ex. Along the way she (drinks heavily) and forms an unusual friendship with a former classmate who hasn't quite gotten over high school either.This has been simply filmed, showing raw honesty on the part of 'Mavis', and Theron is excellent, fascinating and almost excruciating at times to watch as she goes about sabotaging her life. This is a woman in pain. Patton Oswalt also puts in a touching performance. I was left a bit worried about that dog though. 11/18/15

What a wonderful movie, the entire cast is marvelous and lead by the standout performance by Charlize Theron who plays the lead character Mavis with a wonderful unabashed way. The interaction of Charlize and Patton Oswalt character is the strength of this movie as they are both two broken 30 something adults and their love scene is how they are one as Charlize is broken emotionally and mentally while Oswalt is physically broken. I found it refreshing with the love scene which unlike Julianne Moore constant nudity in her films it was more moving than shocking. I also love the scene at the baby naming where Charlenes character tells of her miscarriage and possibly the reason why the picture of the baby many have started this ill fated quest to reunite with her former love Buddy. I love this movie because of the rawness and the story and would highly recommend it.

Mavis (Charlize Theron) is a successful author of young adult novels who hears her old high school squeeze is happily married with a baby, so she decides she wants to get him back.Its a riff on My Best Friend's Wedding, a riff on fame and the classic fish out of water story, but I love it. I've never met anyone else who likes it. First of all, I love that the opening credits take place inside a cassette tape player. I find Mavis to be unlikeable but fascinating to watch. She is an excellent portrait, well written by Diablo Cody, well crafted by Charlize Theron and Jason Reitman. She's a good example of an unreliable narrator. We don't get them in movies too often. Basically, she'll tell you things, and you shouldn't necessarily listen to her. The things she's saying are not what the filmmakers are saying. I like it. 8/10