Great Movie!

Rating: 9/10 (26 August 2007)

This movie is about love and the ABSURD ways we find ourselves defining and pursuing it. It was in fact gross but still realistic which of course is what makes it so shockingly absurd. The combination of this and some very funny actors is what makes the movie so hilarious. This movie should not be mistaken for a typical raunchy teen quasi-American Pie film. If this was so, the hero of this film would be Mclovin for being the only one to achieve the goal the three had set out to accomplish, but his character was actually the lost soul of this film. Throughout most of the movie he finds himself under the companionship of two police officers who serve as the embodiment of what happens when we fail to understand the essence love. Ripping through the city, clinging to their memory of being young and wondering what went wrong, their journey is a chaotic spiral of destruction ending in the three of them staring at the burning vehicle which was the only thing keeping them from being completely stranded...lost. McLovin fails to see the illusions in their teachings and seals his fate as he unloads one of the police officers' pistols into the burning wreck. We feel a sense of victory when McLovin finally achieves his goal and we feel a sense of regret when they are interrupted. Our sense of regret should come in that we realize he'll never understand love. He's doomed. The others, on the other hand, never set out to do what they had hoped. The scene with Becca was hardly sexy. It was a satirical depiction of how distorted the concept of love had become to them. She utters "I want you to be my first,"...as physically driven as she seemed, all she really wanted was for him to care for her. He knew this from the beginning, but still felt that it could only be achieved through sex with her that night. At this point the viewer is still unclear as to whether he is rooting for the couple to seal the deal which means that the distortion depicted is real...its absurd...its sick. Alas, what better than a spray of vomit to save the day. The sex doesn't occur, and our couple are both are on the path to becoming heroes-which they fully become when they meet in the mall later. They begin to rebuild their relationship on different terms, through mutual respect and genuine care. They have found a deeper understanding of themselves and of love.