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Nick Twisp insists he isn't mentally ill. He's just a teenager.

But he does invent a second persona to help him cope with the challenges posed by raging hormones and clueless parents.

Nick is played with intellectual vigor and youthful angst by Michael Cera, the go-to guy for awkward, nerdy/cute, virginal young men. As Nick, his rebelliousness is kept in check. But obedience and propriety are tossed aside by his alter ego, Francois Dillinger, an arrogant, mustachioed, cigarette-puffing smoothie who comes complete with an ascot. Cera plays the dual role of Nick and Francois; it's a pleasant surprise to see the engaging, soft-spoken star of Superbad and Juno stretch and play a devil-may-care slimeball.

While Nick's instinct is to be is affable and mildly sarcastic, Francois eggs him on to criminal behavior, all in the name of love. Nick is hopelessly besotted by teenage Francophile Sheeni Saunders (a likable Portia Doubleday), whom he met on vacation and who shares his affection for foreign cinema and Frank Sinatra. Sheeni incites Nick, the only child of irresponsible parents (Jean Smart and Steve Buscemi), to break out of his humdrum existence.

Director Miguel Arteta, who made the eccentric Chuck & Buck (2000) and the darkly droll Good Girl (2002), is a good choice to adapt C.D. Payne's Salinger-esque 1993 cult novel, Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp. Arteta's talent for bleak comedy and extreme characters has been evident since his first film, 1997's Star Maps.

Youth's screenplay, by Gustin Nash, is generally witty. The dialogue is so self-consciously ornate, however, that it can sound forced and artificial coming out of every teenager's mouth. Snappy banter is always preferable to predictable chatter, but it also can sound excessively and formally scripted. Unlike Juno, whose lead character spouted a singularly quirky patois, here every young person casually engages in intellectual and amusing repartee. The adults, in contrast, are vacuous and much less articulate.

Characters weave in and out of Nick's increasingly outlandish adventures. Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover) and Ray Liotta are loutishly funny as the loser boyfriends of Nick's mom, and M. Emmet Walsh and Mary Kay Place are comically overbearing as Sheeni's ultra-religious parents. Fred Willard is first-rate as Nick's neighbor.

Edgy coming-of-age stories are almost a genre in themselves, and their arch cleverness can border on clich. But Youth in Revolt sidesteps that pitfall with its farcical style and the chemistry of its leads, as well as with Cera's dashing/dweeb duality - review by Claudia Puig.

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