| Review: As a preface to this review, before one's knees-jerk reaction is to dismiss my views as those of a prude, I do not object to the hard-R comedies. In fact, I love them a lot. But something about this rubbed me the wrong way - yes, even to see it as a movie seems wrong: there were scenes depicting the party who initially delegated to the mini-music videos focusing naked girls. And even in tempting ways - rather, these scenes felt creepy (especially since many of the girls presented is supposed to be high schoolers) - for example, trust director of paparazzi-style upskirt shot. And because the film is a shot a the Blair Witch / Cloverfield etc with its found footage style, it simply makes these images seem any more dirty and more voyeuristic.Moving the last things ... second error: The fact that the characters were so cliche d and stereotypical of the genre did not help, either - Jonah Hill-type character of NYC is sometimes funny, but overall it just seemed to be trying too hard:? compulsory overzealous good friend Whos obsessed with girls and believes he has the game, but no. So, nothing original or distinctive enough to make it different than any other sex comedy character. He made me laugh a few times, but thats weak praise.While the first half of the film is a sort of silly fun, the other just gets sidetracked by becoming stupid, unrealistic, Borderline disturb things - as a sequence of a dude wielding a flamethrower at the end was not only silly, but kind of scary, like it belonged in a completely different film.I also do not like the moral of the story, or whatever you want to call their attempts to reconcile their events. Unfortunately I can not discuss it without spoiling the film, but suffice it to say feel-good moral closure of Project X felt like an attempt to Risky Business without any of the real morality behind it. Not to mention the main character is not half as likable or realistic as Tom Cruise character, despite apparently looks more like a real high schooler than Cruise did - oh, thats why good writing is the key. The only word I can use to describe the film is ... vile, but not in a good way.Think back at what made films like Superbad so much better than many of its genre: it was the characters. They said and did a lot of crude, stupid things, but they are rendered as realistic and likable guys, and we could deal with them. When they were placed in compromising situations - such as from a control party - it was funny, because as cheesy as this sounds, we care. They werent throwaway caricatures of teenagers, or one-dimensional mean-spirited idiots.In Project X, where various elements and characters are basically pulled out of the teen movies, you do not care much about some of these kids - they can not deal with them. Is the movie enjoyable? People in the theater laughed - I imagine it will be able to appeal to their principal demographic, which is the teen / college crowd -., But I think years from now those spectators will look back on films such as The Hangover and Superbad, and to understand why they were best (PS Do not be fooled by deceptive marketing - while the film was in fact produced by Todd Phillips, he did not direct the studio is exploiting his participation -., and you can not blame them for when the Hangover films made one billion U.S. dollars of the world? - but apart from a producer credit, he had nothing to do with this flick). |
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