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Week of June 22, 2012
The crowd has misspoken. First up…
Project X
Spreading the word you’re having a house party by whispering it into someone’s ear is the reason why guests show up with purple washing machines.
Fortunately, the pubescent party-planners in this comedy posted their social gathering on social networks.
When his parents go away for the weekend, his brazen buddy Costa (Oliver Cooper) goads Thomas (Thomas Mann) into throwing himself the ultimate birthday bash.
With preparations left in Costa’s hands, news of the event spreads through their high school hallways and on to a Craigslist posting.
Needles to say, the soirée is inundated with unknown attendees, a police presence and a fired up drug dealer.
Feigning that the slick, slow motion, sound tracked footage was found following the events, Project X proceeds to present unlikable characters in unrealistic situations and claim them to be authentic.
Besides, unaccompanied minors nowadays would rather join a protest riot than throw a house party. 0
Wanderlust
The best thing about commune living is the inhabitants are so weak minded they can easily be converted into devout followers.
Fortunately, the visitors to the cooperative in this comedy aren’t planning on becoming cult leaders.
After losing his job, George (Paul Rudd) and his wife, Linda (Jennifer Aniston), abandon their urban life to live with George’s brother (Ken Marino).
En route, however, they stay at a B&B run by a hippie commune.
Welcomed by the owner (Alan Alda), the head hippie (Justin Theroux) and the free-spirited denizens (Malin Akerman, Joe Lo Truglio, Lauren Ambrose, Jordan Peele), George embraces the experience.
In fact, he and Linda head back to live permanently when life with his brazen brother deteriorates.
With a screwball ensemble cast and a fertile plot for jest, this recession-era caper offers sporadic hilarity.
Furthermore, it’s scientific proof that not all members of the hippie species evolved into yuppies. 0
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
The best part of your adult child living at home is that when you go away for the weekend, they only throw wild dinner parties.
Unfortunately, the stay-at-home son in this dramedy is incapable of even using the oven.
While hanging in his mother’s basement, Jeff (Jason Segel), a 30-year-old armchair philosopher, receives a cryptic phone call imploring him to watch out for the name “Kevin”.
A fervent fan of arbitrary events that culminate in destiny, Jeff diverts from his assigned chore to follow someone named Kevin.
Ultimately, Jeff’s journey affects his family, including his brother’s (Ed Helms) strained marriage to his wife (Judy Greer), and his mother’s (Susan Sarandon) new relationship with an unexpected partner.
Far from formulaic, Jeff is a delicate, benevolent comedy about the affects indiscriminate events have on our lives.
For example: Banning parents from using corporal punishment has resulted in a generation of adult babies. 0
***Summer Campy***
Wet Hot American Summer
Sending your children to summer camp is great way for them to learn how to survive on their own - which they will have to do when you don’t come back to pick them up.
However, it’s not their parents abandoning them that the kids in this comedy have to worry about, it’s their camp counselors.
During the last weeks of its existence, a Jewish summer camp becomes the scene of a sexual revolution amongst its counselors (Bradley Cooper, Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, Molly Shannon, Ken Marino, Joe Lo Truglio).
Even the camp director (Janeane Garofalo) isn’t immune, as she lusts after a professor (David Hyde Pierce) trying to prevent the campsite from being decimated by space debris.
A mixed bag of kooky characters, indecent innuendo and soapy subplots, this uproarious parody of summer camp has intrinsic comedic worth.
Most astonishing, however, is learning that Jewish people also celebrate the summer.
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