no talent

Rating: 2/10 (22 June 2012)

This is dull. It's supposed to be a comedy, and you can see the actors try, but they look like people reading lines and doing what a director or writer tells them to do.
It's very sad, and you could feel sorry for them if they were doing this on a small budget.
However, this is a group of rich kids who make a movie, and don't have a thimbleful of talent between them. The script is dull, the directing is deplorable, and the acting is nonexistent.
Most of the movie seems to be some grown up rich brat whining and griping about something. If you can stay awake long enough, you'll not find anything at all interesting about it.
The lead actor is so bad, I won't even name him. He looks like someone who truly just memorized words to say on screen.
Much of the fault is the director, who simply does every cliché he can think of, and has exactly zero ingenuity and zero creativity.
Which brings us to the writers of the book and screenplay. I certainly won't bother reading the book, as dull as this is, so I won't affirm the book writer has no talent, but it would be hard to believe.
The trouble here is that we live in a day and age when everyone thinks he is an artist and writer. Forty years ago, people knew what they were. Farmers could farm, welders could weld, and some people could do two or three things well.
Today, people who should be farming or roofing are writing bland scripts. They are highly regarded only because they are competing solely against other rich kids who should be welding or gardening. The naturally talented and trained writers are the first casualties of the "board room" decisions, because everyone in the board room has a dull script, and they only want to compete against other dull scripts. They have to weed out the best ones first.
This is why we get so few comedies that we can naturally laugh at today.
Usually, it's only the writing that suffers in modern movie making. What makes this movie especially bad is that whomever did the casting had absolutely no clue. One gets the feeling the cast were all relatives and friends. I won't comment on the ones with small roles, because the movie is already ruined by the stars. This was incredibly amateur. I could find elementary school kids who could put on a better show.
If you can stay awake through this, you are truly an Insomniac.