Poor JB doesn't escape many scenes without a waistline jibe. Costa's response to JB's: "I'm working on something downstairs" is, "the only thing you're working on is diabetes". The music serves a second, excellent purpose of drowning out cruel humour. The organic nature of this scene is a credit to first-time director Nima Nourizadeh's decision to shoot party scenes by inviting extras to a house then getting them to party for days while filming took place. It could be a promo for an Ibiza Uncovered documentary with topless girls bouncing on a trampoline and a Laptop DJ playing to a field - well, garden - of energetic ravers. The best sequence is a slow-mo montage that plays during an A-Trak remix of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' thrilling Heads Will Roll.
Tone is patchy with Thomas switching from freak outs (he hides in the bathroom to film an apology to his parents) to euphoria (Girls! Girls! a water pistol loaded with tequila! Girls!) without making the audience privy to what could be an entertaining gear change, but Project X scores a major tick in the music column.īass vibrates from the screen throughout a fitting selection of bouncy house and gangster rap. Wasted party scenes are the make or break factor in what is essentially a wasted party film. This is distinctly odd in the early school scenes although becomes more understandable in the wasted party scenes. In Project X, no one seems to care that a creepy goth dude is filming them. It is unfortunate that Project X comes so soon after Chronicle, a film that legitimises the found footage concept by having angry characters storm towards the lens before the screen goes black. This pair is joined by JB (Jonathan Daniel Brown) - whose function is to facilitate fat jokes - and Dax (Dax Flame) - whose function is to film everything. Lead character, Thomas (Thomas Mann), described by his father as, "a sweet kid but a loser", only agrees to throw a house party for his 18th after pressure from boorish best mate, Costa (Oliver Cooper), a Seth Rogan type 2.0. Not all of our heroes are gung-ho penis-brains who learned their attitudes to women from Playboy TV. Throw into the mix Todd Phillips, director of The Hangover, as producer and you'll get an idea of exactly where the jokes are pitched. This is a world where all the girls are hot, a responsible adult gets tasered and a midget punches people in the balls. What follows is pleasure-fuelled madness. This is a found-footage based teen comedy about a trio of high school seniors and a fourth near-silent cameraman, who plan to fast track their way out of nerdville with an awesome party, dudes.
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