Ryden Malby has a master plan. Graduate college, get a great job, hang out with her best friend and find the perfect guy. But her plan spins hilariously out of control when she’s forced to move back home with her eccentric family.
Excessive niceness may be an unfair charge to lob at a movie, but Post Grad is so swaddled in good intentions that it's like taking a very short journey cushioned on all sides by air bags. That are stuffed with cotton candy.
– Kyle Smith,
New York Post,
21 Aug 2009
rotten:
Bledel brings a sweet, steady presence, but this sort of minor project is a step backwards. It's high time she graduated on to bigger and better things.
– Joe Neumaier,
New York Daily News,
21 Aug 2009
rotten:
Alexis Bledel plays a Ms. Sunshine who's fresh out of college and unable to find work, and thus -- conveniently for the uninspired makers of this dismayingly conservative dramedy -- she's temporarily bunking back home
– Lisa Schwarzbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Aug 2009
rotten:
Post-Grad finds Alexis Bledel sinking into the quicksand of typecasting, playing nearly the same role she perfected during seven seasons as the ambitious Rory on Gilmore Girls.
– Joe Coscarelli,
Salon.com,
28 Aug 2009
rotten:
Director Vicky Jenson has a sitcom script on her hands and proceeds accordingly.