Debauched genius, gets under your skin, sucks you in, elevates.

Rating: 9/10 (26 August 2013)

I am a puritan-born a straight-laced mother-ivy league, clean of mouth, mind and body. I did not expect to like this film, I expected it to be raunchy and frat boy level humor. On 2 out of three, I was correct. It was raunchy, frat boy level humor, but SO much more. And I loved it- I am ashamed to say. Loved it so much I went back again, and might yet again. Here you have debauched genius in the flesh and spirit. These actors masterfully play themselves with such honest realism and also tongue in cheek wit and sarcasm, it defied my expectations. You get to see their flaws in all their vapid childishness and sincerity, along with their sneaky wit and brilliance. This is a deconstructed satire about Hollywood life, full of its juvenile egotism and masquerade's, beautifully and hysterically depicted by people I would have been loathe (until now) to acknowledge as masters of their art. There are running parodies and references of/to other films both classic and not, along with a hilarious belly-button self expose of the California life style. Their ability to make so far-fetched a reality completely believable and even... exciting and fun yet at the same time horribly scary is what kept me hanging on through the darkest (and it got pretty comically dark) of scenes. Never seen damnation and redemption played with such wild, stupid, and brilliant self-abandon. It keeps coming back up on me, like a favorite fair food after a wild roller coaster ride, I can't stop remembering it....