adventureland_filmstill1Chalk up lukewarm attendance for the second showing of Miramax’s coming-of-age comedy “Adventureland” to Obama fever.

On Tuesday morning, tickets to the movie starring “Twilight” actress Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg were still available for sale even as the theater lights dimmed. (The movie’s Monday night premiere sold out.)

Sundance programming director John Cooper made it perfectly obvious why: “By the time this screening is over, you’ll have a new president.” Wild cheering ensued.

The “Adventureland” cast and crew, including director Greg Mottola (“Superbad”) were MIA, so the standard post-screening Q&A didn’t take place. But the crowd around me seemed pleased. Especially younger filmgoers — who may have been surprised to see their favorite female star get randy (and naked, though it’s all shadows) in the movie.

A section of preteen girls sitting in the balcony decided Stewart was just as good in “Adventureland” as she was as the vampire magnet Bella in “Twilight.” “She was really good!” one squealed. “Yeah, Kristen’s just so real,” said another. An older woman, who’d also seen “Twilight,” told her friend that Stewart still “twitched too much” but thought the movie overall was “pretty funny.”

Meanwhile, Reuters liked it, too, Variety deemed it “rather ordinary,” and The Hollywood Reporter called it “funny and spunky.”

In the movie, Stewart’s character Em (short for Emily) is the object of brainy college grad James’ (Eisenberg) affection, a cool but troubled girl with a messed-up home life. What James doesn’t know is that Em’s coping method has been to sleep with the married janitor (Ryan Reynolds) at the amusement park where they all work. Martin, Starr, Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig also star.

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