Film Review – Project X

Producer Todd Phillips has orchestrated monster frat parties (“Old School) and made quite a mess of Las Vegas as well (“The Hangover”). “Project X” looks to generate the definitive teen get-together for the multiplex, turning to three screen stalwarts, chemical excess, nudity, and mass destruction, to take the title as the ultimate adolescent party movie. His intentions are pure, but “Project X” never supplies a reason to care about anything happening onscreen, laboring through conventional acts of misbehavior with a pronounced mean-spiritedness that makes the entire picture unsavory instead of cheerfully celebratory. It’s impossible to get excited for three young men who deserve genuine jail time for their banal adventures in juvenile delinquency. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com