Nick Twisp (Michael Cera) is a 16 year old virgin living in Oakland with his divorced mother Estelle (Jean Smart) and her lying trucker boyfriend Jerry (Zach Galifianakis). They run off to camp in Ukiah to escape the 3 sailors that Jerry sold a lemon car to. Nick is hopeless with girls and falls for the flirtatious Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday). Her brother Paul (Justin Long) is a slacker druggie type. Nick moves back to Oakland. Jerry dies. Nick has to figure out how to go back to Ukiah. He has to help his jobless father George (Steve Buscemi) get a job in Ukiah and get his mother to throw him out despite her need for the child support money. He creates an alternate personality Francois Dillinger to make life difficult for his mother and her new police boyfriend Lance Wescott (Ray Liotta). Sheeni finds a job for George with her boyfriend Trent's father. It's general mayhem as Francois has his way and causes massive destruction. Estelle sends him away to George and his girlfriend Lacey (Ari Graynor) to hide from the police investigation. Sheeni is send away by her religious parents (M. Emmet Walsh, Mary Kay Place) to a french boarding school to keep her away from the wild Nick.

Michael Cera is getting a little too old to play the awkward 16 year old. It would have been funnier if he's an older 18 year old. At least it would be more pathetic. The movie is undeniable quirky. Evil Michael Cera is very disorienting at first, but he becomes one of the reasons to watch this. It's weird and fascinating. I wish that Jerry doesn't die and Zach Galifianakis could have a few more scenes. There is a general continuous rotation of characters in this movie as new people keeps showing up. This is more quirky than funny.

Youth in revolt is a quirky, bittersweet slightly offbeat dark comedy starring Michael Cera as a 16 year old Nick Twisp.

He lives with his MILF mom in a trailer with her no good trucker boyfriend Jerry (cameo by Zach Galifianakis). His dad (Steve Buscemi) has a much younger and stunning girlfriend and the child support he sends is used up by his mother.

Nick meets Sheeni Saunders, a well educated girl from a religious family and an All American boyfriend. Like many teenagers, Nick wants to have sex and he wants to have sex with Sheeni.

The trouble is Nick is too safe, nerdy and boring. To take on the boyfriend he creates a rebellious and exotic alter ego called Francois Dillinger.

Francois causes trouble and before long Nick is on the run from the police and getting involved in all sorts of misadventures.

The film is certainly quirky and sporadically funny thanks to Cera's dual performance and supported by supporting actors who all make glorified cameos such as Fred Willard, Justin Long, Ray Liotta and M Emmett Walsh.

The trouble is it never amounts to much than a cynical quirky film featuring some horny nerdy youths, they even throw in some animation segments. Its OK but it should be more than that.

I was more than a little surprised with "Youth in Revolt", especially because I thought it to be just another mainstream late-teenage comedy like so many others in that genre.

However, the storyline in the movie is good, spiced up with the right amount of absurdity, comedy and awkward moments. This is not really the type of comedy that will have you laughing from start to end of the movie, but it uses comedy well and at the right moments. And yes, this is a late-teen comedy, but there is so much more to the movie than just teenagers getting drunk and trying to get laid. There are many levels to this movie, so there is something for just about everyone.

What is more impressive is the people on the cast list. As always, then Michael Cera did a spot on job with his role in the movie. But the entire movie was just filled with great actors and actresses and great names: Steve Buscemi, Jean Smart, Zach Galifianakis, Fred Willard, Ray Liotta, Justin Long, M. Emmet Walsh, and more.

"Youth in Revolt" is a great and refreshing movie if you haven't already seen it. I found it by sheer luck in a second hand store and bought it as part of a bundle deal. I was impressed with the movie, and was thoroughly enjoying it and entertained by it.