I took some time out from reviews because, well to be honest, for the last month or so i've only been watching episodes of Friends and season 1 of Chuck, but i'm back with a new review. This time though i've broadened the genre scope which i will also be doing with site in the near future buy incorporating all genre's of film in to the site. But here we are with a review for a 'comedy' produced by the director of The Hangover...I give you the frankly awful....PROJECT X.
So last night I sat down to watch Project X, nope not the Matthew Brodrick/monkey pilot movie from the 80s, but a film about a group of high school kids who throw a party and capture everything on video. It's supposed to fall into the whole found footage genre of film making that I previously looked at with my review for the brilliant Chronicle. Well here they don't seem to be able to make their minds up with which parts of the film are shot hand held and which parts are shot by a full on crew which becomes jarring, but I'll look more into the technical aspect of the film a little further down. The plot of Project X follows 3 high schoolers, the kind of nerdy out of touch with the cool kids kinda guys, one of them is like a foul mouthed Chachi from Happy Days who thinks he can get any chick he wants, a bit like Fisher Steven's character Vinny in My Science Project, you know the kind all ways talking shit up but never acting on his words, one of them is the Jack Black of the group, nerdy yet thinks he's cool but he's a bit fat and has no luck with the women and finally you have Tom, the man who's throwing the party, kinda nerdy, not exactly part of the in-crowd. Chachi decides to spread the word about the party and it spreads like a disease. Come the start of the party and no one has arrived until EVERYONE IN THE WORLD arrives. What happens then for the next hour is a series of Skins-esq moments crossed with some bad American pie style humour and a lot of shots of naked girls dancing. Now I wouldn't normally mind it but it goes on for like an hour like those cut scenes from Girls Gone Wild, you really just want to see two girls getting it on in the back of bus, instead we get naked '17 year olds' grinding and fucking young impressionable kids. You could look at Project X as party before the Hangover (the film) as this goes from bad to worse to totally fucked up and beyond reality, it goes from possible to 'you're taking the piss now' when it goes to a whole other level of sillyness.
My other major problem with the film apart from the fact that these kids are meant to be 16-17, is that there are zero repercussions for the kids involved, noting happens to them, they burn down an entire neighbourhood, the house and attack the police and nothing happens to them. Remember in the 1980s where films would show out of control parties? At least someone got thrown in jail for the night but it's seriously just a slap on the the wrist for these douche bags. This isn't even remotely funny for a 'comedy' and the characters are just horrible, well apart from the main kid Tom and the girl he fancies called Kirby, everyone else is just a stereotype of the whole beautiful American teen, and it seems that everyone in the U.S are rich, as they can all afford $5k cameras to be able to shoot the party and don't even get me started on the very professional lighting that seems to be evident through the whole film.
It's just a wretched, unfunny piece of supposed comedy that isn't funny and makes me damn proud that I’m not American. If this is your kind of thing then by all means check it out, but if you really want to see a 90 minute teen comedy that is actually funny, with likeable characters and a good script you should look elsewhere because you aint gonna find that kind of entertainment here, you're better off looking towards films like Accepted, American Pie and Bio Dome.
Because I actually hated the shit out of this film I really don't want to give it any stars but unfortunately I have to so it's getting 1 star, only because I have to...avoid as it's utter trash, and not the good kind of trash.
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