"It's like a monet"

Rating: 3/10 (18 April 2012)

in the classic movie called clueless there is a scene when Cher compares the girl to a Monet. Far away it looks cool but up close its just a big old mess?
This movie falls squarely into that category. In theory it works and falls under the whedonverse world of snarky cleverness in it's approach.
The reason people have got to stop praising it as this genius commentary of horror movies is because in their effort to pile on homage after homage and still maintain their quick wit they left out a few key factors that make a movie work and the audience is left with a lot of pretty crucial questions.
Don't get me wrong, it had its moments. After Fran Kranz dropped the "stoner" voice that he felt like he needed to have in the first ten minutes of the film, his natural charm helped make the character likable. Brian White showed the moral conflict for a guy working a new job that is just weird.
But everything else kind of floundered. You can say that it was too clever for its own good. Maybe if it didn't revert to the "it's awesome because the whedonverse says its so" reason for doing things, then people can see the holes that exist. And if some can poke so many holes in the movies plot, doesn't that mean it's not as good as it is made out to be?
The worse thing about it is the ending. On the one hand it is genius because after the many twists and turns the movie has already made it turned it around once more, just for kicks. At the same time, the implications of the ending are really depressing.