Project X
Directed By: Nima
Nourizadeh
Written By:
Michael Bacall and Matt Drake
Starring: Thomas
Mann, Oliver Cooper, Jonathan Daniel Brown, Alexis Knapp, Dax Flame, and Kirby
Bliss Blanton.
Director of Photography: Ken Seng, Editor: Jeff Groth,
Production Designer: Bill Brzeski.
Rated: R for what
you expect at a party, and a lot of what you wouldn’t expect.
The
epic party is a classic staple of many great comedies. We can think of Russell
screaming “I’m a golden God” in Almost
Famous before jumping into the pool. Or the moment Julia Stiles broke out
of her shell while dancing to Notorious B.I.G. in 10 Things I Hate About You. Plus, the insanity of “Mtich-a-palooza”
in Old School with both an appearance
by Snoop Dogg and an old man having a heart attack by the end.
The
last one was directed by Todd Phillips, and it’s no surprise that he served as
a producer for Project X, an
over-the-top extravaganza about the craziest party in the history of mankind,
all shot in a found footage style similar to Cloverfield and the recent Chronicle.
Project X is certainly insane, to put
it casually. It’s less of a movie—the narrative proper only accounts for maybe
15% of the finished product—than a collection of sequences of T&A without
any sort of a trajectory except more.
