The original (Danish movie) was made for adults. As this movie is made by Americans (and for Americans), it has to add the childishness. Just take a look at the scene with the gun in front of a house (shown in the trailer, so no spoiler here I guess). In the Danish original, no shots are fired, in the American version, the gun goes off!

This whole issue about movies being childish is mostly an American problem. You'd think a war would make a nation grow up? It did. The nation of Denmark. Nation of USA still thinks it's a video game.

Forget the speed limit: always go at the same speed as everyone else does (avoid roads where there are only a very few cars).

That way you will never get a ticket, never endanger traffic, and never risk getting into a road rage match with a random crazy idiot.

I learned this after only a few months of commuting hour and half each way (back when I lived in Chicago).

Your larger problem: you are a lousy learner and not very good at blending in (when it has to be done).

To be a writer, you need insight into more than just the language and the words. Her "witty" word plays get old quickly. I wasn't able to get through more than a half of Birds of America. In fact, I stopped at this "gem" of a "witty conversation" occurring on a road trip:

"And don't dicker."

...

Quilty grimaces. "I don't like what comes after 'dicker'."

"What is that?"

Quilty sighs. "Dickest. I mean, really: it's not a contest".

Quilty? Dickest? "I mean, really", I rest my case.

If you think straight men and women can't be friends, you are, in fact - a moron. End of story. Next topic, please.

1) Certificate of Live Birth = Birth Certificate. End of story.

2) There was no reason to fake a birth in America, since you can get a US citizenship no matter where you are born if your mother is an American! The only reason to fake it would be - so that you can run for president one day! Excuse me but that's completely insane.

3) Even if this step-grandmother in Mombasa did say what Birthers think she did, why would anyone believe her sooner than they would believe the friggin' governor of Hawaii and the official document he claims exists?

These are such easy shot downs of this poor confuse idiot he had on the show, and Chris Mathews failed to use a single one of them, therefore - he is an idiot too.

Fly to Asia (I forget if she's still there), but since you already did that, you've got to top it somehow. So, show up dressed as Spider Man! Woo-hoo! Yay, romance!

Nut.

I am sorry, but killing uniformed, armed soldiers, who have invaded your country is not terrorism. It's simply war. So quit calling every attack on US soldiers in Iraq terrorism. Break this ugly, racist habit of defining every military action by Arabs or Muslims against US soldiers as terrorism.

The idiot who shot the recruiters however is a terrorist, because he did not do it as the act of war in defense of his own country. He did it as an act of political violence, having in mind that his country is US, as he tried to influence the politics of going to war and not to actually fight in the war.

Finally, the slime who shot the doctor is a terrorist, belongs to a very powerful and well organized terrorist organization that needs to be hunted down, dismantled and stopped once and for all. Their web sites should be shut down, and people supporting and inciting terrorism should be hunted down, arrested, tried and put away for a very long time. This should be a TOP priority of the President and the entire government. We should all be on a lookout for these people, just like we are on a lookout for Bin Laden's followers.

Parents do not own the lives of their children. Granted, neither does the state. So they all have to follow advice from the doctors, and not just "exercise their rights". Get it?

It's People for crying out loud! We read that stuff for shallow, light entertainment, not for in-depth analysis.

Try a Belgian microbrew. Watch a show on BBC. See an action flick made in Brazil. Add some "alternative" to your playlist.

Don't just dive into high culture and travel, too many things will fly over your not-yet-sophisticated enough head. Trust me, visiting Italy will do you no good if your taste for pizza is on the "peperoni vs. sausage" level (unless you plan to stay for a year or longer).

Similar with making new friends. It's going to be tough if you don't have enough to talk about with new people. If you want to hang out with the crowd that's into literature, well... you better read a lot of dem books first.

But start slow. Take it easy, but keep making progress. Try many things, but don't spread yourself too thin. When you discover you have a knack for something, invest more into that.. you can't do too many things well enough.

Once you are of quality appropriate for your age, and confident about it... people will come to you (and that will include some pretty, funny women-people).