Toooo Hollywood

Rating: 6/10 (11 September 2005)

I didn't like this movie because it was way too slick. I wasn't able to get into it because I felt like I was watching a manufactured movie that was trying to pass itself off as an Independent film. The line between an Independent and Manufactured/Hollywood film is pretty wide, but this movie made it seem narrow and broken. It crossed over that line too many times in some of its gags (which were way too cliché), it's moments of pseudo 'profundity' (I know, profound is a pretty subjective concept, perhaps I am past what this movie preaches, or maybe I am just cynical and haven't reached it), and its characters (the friends of the main character seemed to be all shallow jerks, the kind you'd find on some reality based TV show or girls gone wild). Lastly, to say that the medication issue was oversimplified would be an understatement. I don't believe the writer had much familiarity surrounding the issue of medication.