Project X (2012)
Certified: 18
Duration: 88 minutes
Directed by: Nima Nourizadeh
Starring: Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper, Jonathan Daniel Brown, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Alexis Knapp, Dax Flame
KRS release
Thomas’s (Thomas Mann) birthday is around the corner and with his two buddies – the socially inept JB and the rough Costa (Jonathan Daniel Brown & Oliver Cooper) – he plans to throw the mother of all parties to celebrate his bid day.
So while Thomas’s parents are out of town, the trio break all the rules and promote their party through Facebook, flyers and all other means possible. Meanwhile, they stock up on food, alcohol and illegal substances.
The three friends clash with drug dealer T-Rick (Rick Shapiro) when they steal his very special garden gnome.
Meanwhile, Thomas wants to have sex with his dream girl Alexis (Alexis Knapp) one of the hottest girls at school, whereas Costa and JB want to have sex with anyone.
Thomas is totally unaware that Kirby (Kirby Bliss Blanton), the nice girl who has been his friend through the years, has a crush on him and is actually the right girl for him.
The party kicks off but things soon get out of control.
Hundreds of teens and youngsters turn up and the neighbourhood will no longer be the same. Eventually, the police are brought in, helicopters and a SWAT team follow, as the party reaches full swing amid all the chaos.
Todd Philips has already directed party films such as Old School (2003) and after-party films with The Hangover (2009).
Project X is simply over the top and destined to become not just a box office hit but also a cult movie.
Movies about that all important night of fun have been around for a long time, perhaps since George Lucas’s classic film American Graffiti (1973).
The emphasis was then placed on how the characters will learn a life lesson.
With each subsequent film, however, culminating in Project X, the emphasis has shifted to the excesses of the party itself; the need to simply top the previous experience.
Project X is simply eye-opening in this drive. The film uses the found footage genre to showcase one excess after another as if it were a reality show happening before the audience’s curious eyes:
The number of guests swelling to an incredible amount, teens diving from the roof, a little person who ends up in an oven, a flame-thrower, the police, way too loud music… and the party has only just begun.
The film is simply insane in its intention of capturing today’s party spirit. It simply goes to great lengths to insert us into the picture of the need for excess, in the way some need to go out and get wasted just to have fun.
The film is not about the plot, it’s about switching off and embracing the party mood. This makes Project X a sure hit with those who love going wild, with those who want to “partay!”
This film will have its target audience cheering at every antic and excess as it reveals a generation that seems to wants to party with no limits or rules and wake up as heroes the morning after.