Rated R for language and crudity
Starring Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper, Johnathan Brown, Dax Flame, Kirby Blanton
Directed by Nima Nourizadeh
The Story:
3 High school students (Mann, Cooper and Brown) are going to throw a birthday party and change their fortunes. Their other friend (Flame) records the entire proceedings like a documentary. The party is going to get out of control, and at the end of the night, the boys will indeed be changed forever, and their status of party animals will be the stuff of legend.
Welcome to John Hughes meets Found Footage!
This is the tale of a party that quickly spirals out of control into excessive chaos.
Following the majority of the movie through the lens of their pal, plus newscasts and other phone videos, it's not a badly created found film style movie.
In other words, there's a lot less "shaky cam" than normal, and for that, I was thankful.
The movie has a very slow beginning, but enough glimmer that something fun(ny) could happen, I soldiered on.
There were some rather amusing parts throughout as the party unfolded, but ultimately, I fear that we've forever tipped the balance of a smart comedy, a la John Hughes, to the reality TV generation/found footage "everyone can make a movie" if they have a camera.
A little more skill and substance to the production please, and you could have come up with something to save this tired genre.
Final Grade: C-
Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: Once was more than enough for this one.
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