To me this is just the bottom of the barrel of entertainment. The film could have been much better, and it just ends up being a pointless mess from start to finish.
There's no thought in what went in to making this film and it seems as if the film's idea was drawn up on a napkin and studio executives were like "oh let's make a film with teens partying and drinking their asses off!" This is a dreadful movie that relies on teen party clichés for its plot. A few lines made me smile, but overall this is one weak comedy and it doesn't stand out whatsoever. Right off the bat, you don't sympathize with the characters and you don't care about them either. The film is crude, obscene and void of genuine laughs or good entertainment value. Project X is a horrible excuse for a comedy film. The set-up is pure "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" as a cool guy tries to get his uptight friend to ligthen up, with an expensive car playing a part.(Oliver Cooper also sounds a little like Matthew Broderick.) And like a few other movies I could name, "Project X"(which is also the name of a Matthew Broderick movie) shows no reason why it should have used the found footage format in the first place. In fact, it just turns out that everybody was being fashionably late.Īs sexist as it is at times, "Project X" still has that awe inspiring climax that proves once and for all that comedy is all a matter of perspective in a movie that is thankfully not as vulgar as it could have been. Even after all of that hard work, nobody shows up except for JB(Jonathan Daniel Brown) and Kirby(Kirby Bliss Blanton). His friend Costa(Oliver Cooper) hasn't gotten that memo, however, and not only tries to invite everybody in school but also does everything shy of placing a full page ad in the Los Angeles Times.
In "Project X," Tom(Thomas Mann) is turning 17, so his parents(Peter Mackenzie & Caitlin Dulany), along with giving him the keys to the minivan, also allow him a few friends to come over while they go out of town for their anniversary.