Reviews

Okay, John Taylor wrote this elsewhere on here, but it summed up precisely what I thought, so reitterated it:

1.It is another teen flick. 2.It is predictable. 3.It is not funny. 4.The characters are not believable. 5.It's boring 6.No school is ever like this one. 7.The ending made me want to puke. 8.Everyone has model looks. 9.The script is tepid. 10.lousy acting. And i could go on. There is nothing in this movie that i havent already seen in every other teen college flick.

3 out of 10. And that's GENEROUS.

I went to see this film with my brother, not knowing very much about it before hand.

From the animated opening credits I already had my doubts, and not least because Rowan Atkinsons's mug had shown up. (He was funny in Blackadder, and pretty much nothing else)

The film began and the level of 'humour' was so bad it made me feel embarrassed that this film had been made and even more so that I was watching it Still, I sat there hoping it might get better. Of course it didn't. The list of banal and pathetic 'jokes' was unbelievable. Abused live organs, balloon trapped flying cows, a Klaus Barbie Museum, an improbable Italian narcoleptic, oh it's hurting my brain to recall such stuff.

For the people who have reviewed this and left comments of praise and adoration I can only wonder if perhaps they actually saw a different film from the trite I watched. Before anyone thinks I don't have a sense of humour I'd like to state that I certainly do, and I will sit through and enjoy many things, but this just wasn't funny.

In the UK this film was given a 12 certificate. I think the classification system should have been inverted and the film should have been restricted to those only UNDER 12. it would have saved me the mental torture at least. Not even looking at Amy Smart could relieve the anguish.

I had laughed 2-3 times, but sadly not at any comedy. I was laughing at how brutally bad it was I laughed at the fact I had paid to watch this bilge. I laughed at some of the naive youngsters in the audience who thought it was mildly amusing.

We had given it a fair chance. We had sat through 75 minutes out of the 112 minutes it ran but could take no more when John lovitz broke into the Veteran's reunion and was bizarrely acting like Hitler, like yeah, I'd start sounding German and doing Heil salutes if I'd choked on a cigar lighter. Anyway, not funny. It sucked big time. We walked out promising ourselves never to watch a film on a whim again.

Whilst I can;t pretend to have experienced many of the things in the storyline, Sex, drugs, flirting, relationships, revenge, sun, alcohol etc. I can relate to some and appreciate that the others are good representations of the sorts of things that can happen.

I found the feature length production to be greatly entertaining and full of well acted scenarios creating a good sense of what it could be like to have a lucky lifestyle of a young holiday rep.

The only fault I could give is that they only made a one off, based on the book. there was so much scope for at least a mini series of say 6 one hour follow up stories.

Nice scenery, nice bodies, fun story. Great location.

Reading through some of the rave reviews on here I began to wonder if I had actually been watching the same film.

I found the film to be lacklustre, not visually stimulating, poorly conceived and rather a miserable experience.

The lauded sound track was nothing special and I can't really think why this film has been revered by some people.

The only reason I sat through the pathetic duration of this drivel was that I was able to rest assured I wasn't paying for it the experience and to be able to see something I imagined would be a worrying concept from the beginning. I.e, a modernisation of a Dicken's novel with a serious bent rather than comedy. e.g Scrooged.

An IMDb rating of less than 5 would be far more appropriate. I checked the voters demographic and expected it to be consisting largely of young women. It wasn't. Strange.

Summary: Rubbish

0.55 am Leeds, England. Just finished watching THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. It's not on general release here yet, but hey, I'd heard about the film, and got chance to see it on video. Yes, it's different, yes it has suspense. Generally though there is no substance and no decent 'events' within the film. The premise alone may negate the requirement for graphic or typical plot devixes, but you have to question the validity of a film that seeks to exist on a fictional authentic-esque documentary film style but neither shocks, revolts or disturbs to any degree whatsoever. It was though a change not to have familiar predictable shock scenes, over the top mutilation or typical actors, film grade and of course artificial/background soundtrack. As a concept it could run. However, with no plot, it plods. And although the ending was necessarily weird, it just reminded me of the ending of Monty Python's Holy Grail. Vaguely interesting, ultimately very disappointing.