This is by far the worst movie I have seen this year. It might be the worst movie I will see all year. It is the second worst movie I have seen in two years. The number one worst movie in two years being Reno 911.
Watching this movie you see why Owen Wilson tried to kill himself. When I first heard about that, I thought it was sad for a human being to try to take his own life. Now, I respect Wilson for the effort.
So, is there anything good about this movie? Well, yes there is one thing. In the movie, the kids are being bullied, seriously bullied, by two kids. The movie got this right. It showed a world almost invisible to adults of kids brutalizing other kids. It shows the humiliation of this. It shows how these bullies appear so cute to authority figures. How parents don’t get it either. In the end, the kids who are victims get in trouble for bringing it up. I think it is only now with school shooting that this is getting any kind of attention. There is something so unconscionable about this that it can only be thought of as a common phenomenon.
There is some where serious satisfaction when the bullies finally get their ass kicked in the end.
Other than that the movie tries to be another SuperBad, and fails miserably. The two Laurel and Hardy, fat guy and skinny duo, fail by a lack of chemistry or charm. The hero Drillbit, Wilson, has as much presence as Pauley Shore. The plot is so bad that I won’t even get into it. OK, three kids are getting the sh*#t beat out of them hire homeless body guard Drillbit, and all hell breaks loose.
The worst part was that somehow the whole movie didn’t to work in this day and age. I kept on trying to see if it was suppose to be get 20 or 30 years ago when the plot would have made more sense. But the technology always gave it away. Still there few cell phones except for a couple of adults. School security had a pre-columbine aspect to it, which meant that there was none. A few myspace or facebook jokes would have been good.
Despite adorable, 18 year old, Valerie Tian from Juno, none of the actors have any likeability including Wilson. I really can’t say enough bad things about this movie.
yes! you are so right there is too much focus on school violance.
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