I love coming of age, i love childhood adventure, AND I love raunchy comedy, but for me, this fell short.
It has some funny moments and lines, no doubt, but overall its an unfocused, sloppy mess of a story, with average execution both behind and in front of the camera. I wanted to love this.
I guess it was hard for me to balance the raunch with the naïveté that, as a viewer, I was expected to just be fine-with.
The storyline has so many meaningless and nonesensical moments, And the film is completely emotionless, even for the genre.
Superbad is a great comparision simply because ITs great, and imo, shows how to make a stupid storyline work. It does it with great characters, and keeping an emotional connection between them, and by bolstering it all with superb comedic performances. This film, in a nutshell, lacks 90% of that. It's not quite as disappointing for me in terms of 'boy i wanna see that because its up my alley' as say "Take Me Home Tonight", but it's disappointing nonetheless, and i could really care less about the raunchiness. While I didnt at all care about the raunchiness - I did take a little offense to the fact that the best meaningless storyline they could come up with for this otherwise genius plan to make a clever, younger demographic raunch comedy(which somebody needs to do right now), i DID take some offense with the fact they chose a storyline about the kids being around, purchasing, and flirting with death with illegal, lethal drugs. It was just like,"boy cant they come up with something better and still be raunchy, surely".
A late crying scene is another complete miss, and really ecapsulates why this all doesn't work, trying to mirror Superbad's strength, and failing in both impact and performance, miserably.
I've never said anything like this before, but I'll say it... I wish someone would throw ME 25million to get another crack at this and do it right.
I laughed 8-10 times at some funny lines - that's the best thing I can think of to say about this movie.
I wish we had the performances of Superbad, the naïveté and overall quality if "Dope", and I would have been fine with the raunchiness and lines to make it original and funny. All it is - is occasionally funny. A good overall film it is not.
It has some funny moments and lines, no doubt, but overall its an unfocused, sloppy mess of a story, with average execution both behind and in front of the camera. I wanted to love this.
I guess it was hard for me to balance the raunch with the naïveté that, as a viewer, I was expected to just be fine-with.
The storyline has so many meaningless and nonesensical moments, And the film is completely emotionless, even for the genre.
Superbad is a great comparision simply because ITs great, and imo, shows how to make a stupid storyline work. It does it with great characters, and keeping an emotional connection between them, and by bolstering it all with superb comedic performances. This film, in a nutshell, lacks 90% of that. It's not quite as disappointing for me in terms of 'boy i wanna see that because its up my alley' as say "Take Me Home Tonight", but it's disappointing nonetheless, and i could really care less about the raunchiness. While I didnt at all care about the raunchiness - I did take a little offense to the fact that the best meaningless storyline they could come up with for this otherwise genius plan to make a clever, younger demographic raunch comedy(which somebody needs to do right now), i DID take some offense with the fact they chose a storyline about the kids being around, purchasing, and flirting with death with illegal, lethal drugs. It was just like,"boy cant they come up with something better and still be raunchy, surely".
A late crying scene is another complete miss, and really ecapsulates why this all doesn't work, trying to mirror Superbad's strength, and failing in both impact and performance, miserably.
I've never said anything like this before, but I'll say it... I wish someone would throw ME 25million to get another crack at this and do it right.
I laughed 8-10 times at some funny lines - that's the best thing I can think of to say about this movie.
I wish we had the performances of Superbad, the naïveté and overall quality if "Dope", and I would have been fine with the raunchiness and lines to make it original and funny. All it is - is occasionally funny. A good overall film it is not.