The 9 Most Scathing Critical Reactions to Project X

The comments are set for the Todd Phillips-created uber-party comedy Project X, and three from four experts agree: It's the douchiest, most mean-spirited debauch of the season. (Up to now, anyway we'll see what type of revisionist zest Steven Spielberg and co. provide Lincoln subsequently.) Hop aboard Movieline's scorched-earth golf buggy and let us get a spin... 9. "You have to hands it to Warner Siblings and producer Todd Phillips: They've meticulously designed an ideal film for the modern attention-impaired audiences. Are you currently a texter? A talker? Have in internet marketing. There's not a way you can get this to movie stupider or even more pointlessly noisy of computer already is." - Sara Stewart, NY Publish 8."It might be simple to say Project X objectifies women, when the word 'object' didnt imply an excessive amount of dignity." - Keith Phipps, Audio-video Club 7."Even though it reacts as though its nearest antecedent is really a John Hughes teen movie, Project X plays a lot more like a mix of music video, College Rules-style porn, and apocalypse-looking. Its all hyper-physical expensive and amateur titillation, aint it awesome party-dogging as well as an ecstatic taxonomy of all of the different methods for you to drink a beer." - Michelle Orange, Movieline 6."Project Xs title doesn't have effect on its premise: a teenage house party inside a quiet Californian suburb that spirals unmanageable. Nor could it be attached to the 1987 film of the identical title by which Matthew Broderick rescues a gang of tormented chimpanzees, unless of course possibly the chimpanzees authored it. [...] Overall, its flamboyantly loathsome on every imaginable level, and a lot of unthinkable ones besides." - Robbie Collin, The Telegraph 5."[Oliver] Coopers brash, boasting Costa, particularly, is easily the most annoying movie character since Jar Jar Binks. Youd never tire of punching him. [...] Allows take all prints from the film, and bury them. Dont bother marking the place by having an X." - Chris Hewitt, Empire 4."How bad could it be? It begins the proceedings using the soundtrack blaring the two Live Crew classic 'Hey, We Would Like Some Pussy,' which ends up making up the nearest it involves both quiet dignity and quality writing. [...] It's so bad it deploys a running gag featuring shenanigans including a dog dog that even Michael Vick usually takes offense at." - Peter Sobczynski, eFilmCritic 3."It's not normal adolescent rebellion portrayed here: it's sociopathic insurrection. Its an orgy of destruction that's intended to be awesome. And it is not really a cautionary tale. It is not an alert that sees that real-existence teenaged boys can certainly be colossal idiots sometimes, and possibly we have to interact like a society to reduce the harm they are able to do, like possibly training up our sons to become responsible people. Its a meeting of colossal adolescent idiocy as something we ought to all desire to, and would do, when we could simply be as perfectly awesome like a horny 17-year-old boy." - Maryann Johanson Flick Filosopher 2."Project X is classless, mean-spirited, repugnant, deplorable, off-puttingly sleazy, and completely contemptible. It's also searingly depressing - there is not a genuine laugh around the corner - in addition to useless on every motion picture level you could title, imagine, or envision." - Dustin Putman, DustinPutman.com 1."[A] certain self-justifying, feel-good impulse obliges the filmmakers to signify, even when [the figures] do nothing at all further of note within their lives, they'll also have this. Herein lies the film's insufficient point-of-view, departing it towards the viewer to determine when the import from the evening is really a joke, an emergency, an irony or perhaps a victory. Despite a few unconvincingly upbeat added-on moments in the finish, Project X essentially reads as nihilistic, as not thinking in or meaning anything. Not really fun." - Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter Reviews via Rotten Tomato plants. Browse much more of Moveline's Scathing Critical Response features here. Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.