BEFORE: I'm throwing one last high-school party before summer ends. Let's hope things don't get too crazy... Linking from "Never Been Kissed", Michael Vartan was also in "One Hour Photo" with Peter Mackenzie.
THE PLOT: 3 high school seniors throw a birthday party to make a name for themselves. As the night progresses, things spiral out of control as word of the party spreads.
AFTER: This is the stuff of which high-school legends are made. Is it worth trashing your parents' house with a blowout drunken bash, just to get some credibility at your school?
Like "Cloverfield", this story is told with the "single camera" process, but that camera seems to be everywhere it needs to be, capturing every key moment. That camera is behind a guy knocking on the front door, and then teleports somehow to be also behind the person answering the door - how is that possible?
OK, so there must have been multiple cameras, but then who edited the footage together? How can this possibly be made up of "found footage" if the night's events are so well-detailed and non-overlapping? And then we've got a party that's so epic that it defies all rational convention - which then goes further toward shooting down its believability.
Maybe it's because I'm on the other side of 40 now, but I just don't see the point in a celebration that has the potential for such wanton destruction. My idea of a good birthday is to maybe go to a good BBQ restaurant, or maybe get some people together for beer floats. This is not my scene...
In the end, I'm not sure which is more shameful - the acts shown taking place in the party, or making a film that glorifies those acts, making sure that future partygoers will try to replicate them, insuring that someone's going to get hurt. Wait, I know what's most shameful - basically remaking "Superbad", which wasn't released that long ago, with a more annoying Seth Rogen type - all they really changed was to make the McLovin-like nerd also the fat kid.
Also starring Thomas Mann (last seen in "It's Kind of a Funny Story"), Oliver Cooper, Jonathan Daniel Brown, Dax Flame (last seen in "The Watch"), Miles Teller, Alexis Knapp (last seen in "Pitch Perfect"), Kirby Bliss Blanton, Martin Klebba, with cameos from Big Boy, Jimmy Kimmel.
RATING: 3 out of 10 blow-up dolls
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