Party Monster (2003)
Genre: Comedy Crime Drama (USA, Netherlands)
Starring: Macaulay Culkin (Home Alone; The Good Son), Seth Green (The Italian Job; "The Family Guy")
Directed By: Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato (Inside Deep Throat)
Overview:
Acting: Clive Owen does a great job, so does the woman who plays his wife. Fez from "That 70s Show"? As if. Macaulay does a pretty good pretentious sissy, maybe not so much of a stretch for him. Seth Green was an embarrassment to cinema.
Rating: 3
Cinematography: As we approach the end, there are actually a few artsy shots that made me reconsider the rating I was going to give for the low-budget cameras and the clichés at the beginning. Not good enough.
Rating: 4
Script: The writing, sadly, is a good rendition of the pretentious of the Club Kid scene. No I don't know that much about it, but I've known my share of flaming queens and their pathetic displays of selfishness. No doubt this was written by a queen for the queens. Not my demographic sister! *snap snap*
Rating: 5
Plot: The plot has a good premise: immersion into a lifestyle we know nothing about, so it's new and we explore the early days of a burgeoning NYC clique, but it really wasn't entertaining. I honestly could care less for self-centered little pricks. There's no 'everyman' to this at all, and when this kid suffers, I'm glad.
Rating: 4
Mood: The costumes and the drug lifestyle is definitely ever-present, and I'm sure it does itself justice, but this movie had a way of having the characters speak directly to the audience and queuing up scenes... It just didn't work. The score for the scenes at home too, very low budget.
Rating: 5
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