Project X
Review by Anthony Morris
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Project X
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Here's an idea : if people like looking at Facebook photos and
youtube clips from wild teen parties, they’re going to love an entire
movie made up of that stuff. Note that it might not
actually be a good idea, which becomes obvious fairly early into the
erratic, crude, aggressively stupid mess that is Project X. Three
friends who conveniently fall into the three basic high school outcast
food groups – the try hard party guy (Oliver Cooper), the chunky one
(Jonathan Daniel Brown), and the nice guy who wants to turn his female
bestie into something more (Thomas Mann) – end up holding a
“my-parents-are-away” party that rapidly gets out of control. Fortunately
they have a buddy videoing the whole thing, so all the destruction and
nudity can be served up to us, the viewer. What isn't
served up is any real story or character arc or anything to make this
more than just a collection of out-of-control party clips loosely
strung together. That might sound like fun, and in small
doses it is, but this is a feature length effort that wears out its
welcome fast then lingers around hoping you’ll remember all those
similar yet better teen party movies and somehow mistake this for one
of them. Basically, this is watching people you don’t know
have fun you’re not invited to; if that sounds like a good time, go
right ahead.
2 out
of 5
Project X
Australian release: 1st March,
2012
Official
Site: Project X
Cast: Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper, Jonathan Daniel Brown
Director: Nima Nourizadeh
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