21 & Over
Tags: revenge, humor, entertaining

Plot synopsis:
In the opening scene, Casey (Skylar Astin) and Miller (Miles Teller) walking through the middle of campus, naked with only a tube sock covering their genitals. Their butts have been branded with a sorority symbol. "None of that ever happened," Casey tells Miller. "None of it," Miller says agreeing.ONE DAY EARLIERWe see Miller in a taxi talking to the driver about why he traveled to the university. He and Casey have come down to surprise their old high school pal Jeff Chang (Justin Chon) for his 21st birthday. Miller opens a beer in the backseat which the driver notices but Miller denies having it. They pick up Casey and the two of them start talking. Miller asks about Casey's family and more specifically his sister. Casey tells Miller that every time he asks about his sister, he knows that Miller wants to have sex with her. Casey points out that she is 16 and thus underage. Casey asks how would Miller like it if he would say he wanted to sleep with his sister. Miller says his family would consider it an honor. Miller tries to make a bet for five dollars that he will sleep with Casey's sister before Casey could with Miller's. "I'd fuck my sister first before I sleep with your sister," Casey says. Miller said he'd actually pay him to sleep with his own sister."Can we stop the talk about the sister fucking!" the exasperated cab driver screams. He drops them off at Chang's address and tells them to get out.Casey and Miller head up the steps and see The Chief (Russell Hodgkinson) dancing around high. Miller tells Casey if they don't look like that in 2 hours, they have failed at life.They ring on the door, and Chang shows up. He is surprised, but happy to see his old friends. They explain why they came, and Chang tries to explain that he can't. They get inside his room, and Chang explains that he has an important med school interview tomorrow that his father set up. Miller insults Dr. Chang (Francois Chau), only to find him right behind him. He recognizes the two and chastises his son for still surrounding himself with people like Casey and Miller. He tells his son that he will be at the house at 7:00 am to pick him up for his 8:00 am interview and not to embarrass him. Dr. Chang leaves.Chang says that was what he was trying to tell them; he couldn't go out tonight. He asks Miller if he could reschedule for tomorrow. Miller says no because he has tickets for a concert the next day. That is beside the point; Miller tells Chang that his 21st birthday is a rite of passage, the time where he can show every bar bouncer that though he still looks like a "9 year old girl" he is of legal age. Chang says he can't do it. Miller then tells him if he doesn't come with them, he will stay outside with an air horn and blast it all night so he can't sleep. Chang finally agrees, but only to one drink.Of course, that doesn't happen. When we see them again, Chang is already smashed and getting worse. Chang is happy though and hugs Casey and Miller and thanks them for coming down to see him. Miller asks about the Sidewinder festival, and Chang is happy to think about it. Being pre-med he hasn't had time to write music, play music, or even listen to music. Miller asks Casey but Casey reveals he already has a job lined up for the summer at a Wall Street firm. Chang congratulates him, but Miller can't believe he has a job already and can't even enjoy his last summer before settling into adulthood.A friend of Chang's, Nicole (Sarah Wright) shows up, and she congrats Chang for his 21st. Miller is taken by her and asks straight up who would she rather sleep with it; him or Casey. She picks Casey, so Miller takes Chang away to play darts to let Casey talk to her.Chang and Miller play darts. Miller voices his concerns for Casey's attitude.Nicole tells Casey she is going to South America for Spring Break. Casey mentions his internship, and Nicole balks at spending his last Spring Break working. She points out that everyone in the bar will be married with kids and in crappy jobs in 10 years, and they need to do as much crazy stuff as they can NOW. Casey says he does some crazy stuff. Like jumping into the pool after eating. Nicole laughs.Miller is still complaining about Casey. Chang doesn't see what the problem Miller sees. Chang accidentally throws a dart without looking, piercing Randy (Jonathan Keltz) in the cheek. Randy obviously is not happy with that, and Chang is embarrassed and horrified by what he did. He tries to take a look, telling Randy he is a med student, but Randy will not listen, being pissed off. Miller tries to tell Randy it was an accident, and they're sorry. Randy responds that accidents have all the time, and takes a bar stool and slams it into Chang hard. Chang and Miller realize they need to get out of the bar now.Casey and Nicole are still talking. It's obvious Nicole is interested, and if Casey has a little more game, he could get somewhere. However, Miller and Chang pull him away from her and out of the bar. Nicole smiles and waves him goodbye.Casey asks what was so important that he had to pull away from Nicole. Miller tells him he wouldn't have closed with her anyway. Casey says they should take Chang home, but Miller see there are over 20 bars in the area and doesn't want the night to end yet. Chang notices Galloway's, a bar that carded him like crazy and he wants to get in now. He goes up to the bouncer, and the bouncer insults him. Chang pulls out his ID. "Twenty one...BLACKJACK MOTHERFUCKER!" Chang says. The bouncer just tells him to go inside. "Where's all the white women at?" Chang calls out. Miller and Casey follow behind him.A bar montage ensues in which Chang drinks more, break dances on the dance floor, exposes himself to a bar full of women then proceeds to urinate on them and rides a mechanical bull before projectile vomiting.Casey and Miller realize they have to take home Chang home for sure then. Problem is they don't know where he lives. However, Casey remembers Nicole. Miller says to give it up, he can't close, but Casey means Nicole knows Chang so he should know where he lives. Plus, he saw her sorority sweatshirt so they can just go find her.Casey and Miller drag Chang across the university looking for the sorority. They check Chang and find a revolver on him. They are seriously freaked out by him having it. Miller jokes about wanting to kill a squirrel.They stop at what they believe is the right sorority and ring the bell. Two girls answer and write on a white board there are no visitors after 11:00 pm. Casey tries to ask about Nicole, but the girls shut the door in their faces. Casey doesn't know what to do, but Miller has a plan. Finding an open window around back and the three get inside. They get inside and notice a banner proclaiming the building a Latina sorority. Miller and Casey are confused (they are obviously in the wrong place). They drag Chang with them, but Chang starts to make noise. They tie him to a toilet so they can search for Nicole.Miller and Casey look around and realize they are in the wrong place but keep looking until the hallway hits a dead end. Hearing someone and having no choice, they drive into another room. The two girls in the room jump up blindfolded and proclaim they are ready for their punishment, mistaking them as their Pledgemistress.Chang meanwhile is struggling in his restraint. A woman comes in and mistakes him for a girl. He continues to make noise and breaks free from his restraints. The girl finally notices it is Chang and watches in bewilderment as he eats a tampon, mistaking it for candy.Meanwhile, the two pledge girls say they are ready to be spanked, so Miller goes with it and starts spanking him. He speaks up, and the girls start to go suspicious. Miller said the Pledgemistress told to be there and if they object she will find out. The girls plead for him not to say anything and asks what is next. Miller said they should make out. Though weirded out, they do with even Casey, who has been lightly objecting Miller's behavior, unable to stop himself from watching.The girl in the bathroom comes out and attacks Chang, using rapist defense techniques. She screams about an intruder and the two pledge girls take off their blindfolds and look at Casey and Miller. Realizing they have been busted, they quickly run into the bathroom and lock it. They are freaked out about the group of Latin sorority sisters trying to kill them. They climb out a window onto a balcony just as the girls are breaking through the door with a golf club. They swing Chang onto the pool cover that bounces him into a rose garden. "Oh my god, did we just kill Jeff Chang?" Miller asks (a running gag; throughout the film they never call him by just his first or last name but his full name). They have no time to think about it as the sorority girls are about to get them. Casey notices Nicole's sorority just before they jump themselves.Casey and Miller get Chang to Nicole's sorority and force themselves inside. Nicole finds them and helps them get the thorns out of Chang's body. They ask if she knows where Chang lives, and she says she doesn't. She only took remedial science with him, and he rarely talked to anyone. Miller and Casey realize what she is saying and balk; Chang is great at school. However, Nicole tells them the opposite; he's failing Science and isn't doing so hot in most of his classes. Casey and Miller are stunned as Chang didn't tell them any of this. Nicole tells them a friend of hers, Randy, has all the student addresses since he is a cheerleader and offers them a ride to a pep rally where he will be. They take her up on that offer.And with good reason. Casey and Miller see that the Latina sorority is looking for them everywhere. They see Nicole's car show up and are horrified that it is a very small car. Nevertheless, having no choice, they rush it, and pile themselves in there before the Latin sorority can get to them. The head sorority sister tells the others to "Get the Van."Nicole drives the three to the pep rally with Chang passed out on the dash.When they get there, Casey asks if Nicole wants to go with them, but she says she is going to a party. She also mentions Randy is her boyfriend, something she hadn't brought up before. Casey is crushed and Miller ribs him about it.Dr. Chang hears the sorority girls searching outside and asks what is going on. One of them shows him a photo of Miller and Casey and mentions they had an Asian boy with them. Dr. Chang is enraged and plans to find them.Miller and Casey find Randy only for Miller to realize that he is the same guy Chang accidentally hit with a dart. Randy is obviously not happy to see them. Casey tries to ask nice about Chang's address, but Randy wants to be a tool. Miller having enough, pulls out the gun and asks for Randy's phone. Randy thinks the gun is fake, so Miller shoots it in the air. That however, causes a live buffalo brought in for the pep rally to be startled and start charging and attacking people. Miller and Casey escape with Chang in a golf cart and Randy gets trampled by the buffalo.Casey finds Chang's address, and they begin to drive there. Miller has been enjoying their night saying he misses college and that he almost regrets dropping out. Casey looks at him in shock and asks when this happened. Miller admits he dropped out two years ago and has been working at a gas station. He thought that he wasn't good, enough unlike Chang and Casey. Casey tells him he is crazy as he is the smartest person he knows and he should go back to school. Casey then concedes that perhaps he can get away for a week or two to go to the Sidewinder festival which makes Miller happy.They get to the address to find a dorm housing. Casey realize it is a old address. They pull Chang in and see a full raging party is happy. They knock on a door or two before finding Sally Huang (Samantha Futerman) and asks if she knows Chang. Sally thinks they are being racist before realizing that she actually knows him. She tells them that Chang kept to himself and eventually move out when he was arrested. Casey and Miller are freaked out as they knew nothing about that. They press for more info, and Sally says his old RA, PJ, might know something. She tells them if they see him, to tell him to keep it down since she has field hockey in the morning. She then shuts the door in their face.Miller and Casey find out if they want to get to PJ, they have to beat each drinking game on 8 different floors to get to him. They plop Chang down on a couch with some stoners and get to work. First they beat some Serbian beer pong players, making plenty of Rocky and rapist jokes at them. A montage ensues as they conquer each floor before making it to the last one. It is when Casey reunites with Nicole, and they play the final drinking game together with Miller. Nicole mentions a favorite vacation spot of hers and Casey says he loves it there too. The moment is broken however, when Nicole finds out Randy has been hurting by the buffalo and the reason he hasn't responded to her was because his phone was stolen (Miller took it). Nicole leaves.The stoners, seeing how messed up Chang is, decide to mess with him. They strip him naked, glue a teddy bear to his penis, places a bra on his chest and cover him with graffiti.Miller and Casey make it to PJ. Miller is less than impressed with the final floor and their prize of gold beads. PJ bemoans his lack of funds and mockingly says he'll try better next time. Casey asks about Chang and PJ reveals he was arrested for attempted murder. The two of them are stunned. They leave, realizing they need to get him home. However, they see him outside, naked and making a further fool of himself. Casey tries to calm him down, but Chang whispers, "You'll never take me alive," and runs off.Casey and Miller run off and pursue him. Chang meanwhile, jumps on a bunch car before a cop car sees him. The cop tells him to "Get down, now." Chang begins to dance, taking the command literally." Just as Casey and Miller are going to intervene, Dr. Chang shows up and confronts him, asking them where his son is. They lie as his son is being arrested behind his back literally. Dr. Chang tells them they waste their lives being drunken fools and drives off. Casey and Miller breathe a sigh of relief and go to track him down.They go to the police station only to see Chang had been transported to the hospital wing of the campus. A woman, Cara, offers to escort them across campus. Walking them, a van pulls up. Cara is a member of the Latina sorority. They pull masks over Casey and Miller and kidnap them.When they come to they are surrounded by robed members of the sorority, buck naked saved for their tube socks on their genitals. They are going to be punished for breaking in, embarrassing their pledges and destroying their rose garden. They are swiftly found guilty. First, they are spanked by paddles by the girls they did it to earlier. Next, since they made the girls kiss each other, they are ordered to, as well. Casey and Miller balk at that, but the leader says if they don't they will be branded with the sorority logo on their butts. Casey freaks out, not wanting to be branded, saying he won't be able to be buried right (he's Jewish). Casey and Miller eventually go with it, awkwardly.Cut to the next morning, where the movie began. The sorority branded them anyway.As they walk, Casey calls Miller out on his bullshit; he forced Chang to go out and get drunk and caused everything. Miller says Chang is an adult and made his own choices. Besides this is what friends do for each other for their birthdays. Casey, angry at him, says they are not friends. Not anymore. Miller tells him if they are going to be honest, he is tired of Casey's crap too. He thinks it is stupid that Casey is so ready to settle for monotony of adulthood. Casey says he is growing up, but Miller says he has forgotten how to be young and have fun. They have a naked fight in the middle of the quad due to their fighting.Later, they reach the hospital and are given hospital scrubs to have clothing. Nicole comes out and spots them. She says she went to check on Randy after his attack, but he acted like an asshole so they broke up, it being a long time coming. Nicole says she will be leaving on her trip in a few hours and waits for Casey to say something. He doesn't, scared, and so she leaves, saying goodbye. Casey kicks himself for being too chicken.They find out by the head nurse that Chang will be held 24 hours. They grab the file from her and find out that not only Chang has been there numerous times, his attempted murder charge was actually an attempted suicide. Casey and Miller are shocked at how little they know about their friend. The nurse kicks them out.Casey and Miller sit on the hospital steps and realize how bad friends they had been if Chang couldn't even feel like he could call them to tell them what was wrong. They decide to help Chang get home on time. They notice The Chief walking out, and he tells them he took some LSD and wound up dancing outside his house all night (also that he is actually a professor at the University). Casey realize that they had probably passed by Chang's house numerous times during the night (as The Chief lives next door) and didn't realize it. They get The Chief's address and go get Chang so he will be ready for his interview. Busting through the hospital rooms they find Chang and decide to slowly drop him out of the window on top of the pep rally SUV. They change their mind, but it is too late. They can't pick him up so he drops two to three stories onto the hood of the car. "Did we just kill Jeff Chang again?" Miller asks.They get outside to find the SUV missing. Chang shows up having stolen it just as Randy shows up and notices. The three of them pile in, and Chang drives off.However, Chang is still obviously drunk and drives erratically, sometimes not even looking at the road. "I feel real alert, like Spider man," Chang notes, seconds before toppling a half dozen parking meters. Casey and Miller are scared, while Chang cuts through the university with a police car not far behind. Miller thinks they are going to die and admits that he wants to go back to school, he wants to make out with a black chick, and that he wants to really fuck Casey's sister. Chang hears the dropped out of school part and looks back at him. Miller tells him to watch the road. They eventually fish tail over a hill, with the car doing a 360 turn several times before landing right side up on a lower road with the police car unaware. "Maybe I shouldn't drive," Chang says.Having twenty minutes or less to make him presentable, the three race home and get him showered and cleaned up. Having no choice, they yank the teddy bear off Chang's penis, causing him immense pain. "I think we just circumcised Jeff Chang," Casey says. They get him in a suit and tell him he's ready. Chang says he doesn't know if he can do this; he doesn't want to be a doctor, and he's failing all the courses needed for it anyway. Miller blurts out that they know about his suicide attempt. Chang says he didn't actually try to kill himself; he had been studying for 72 hours straight, coked out on pills to help him focus and he started to hallucinate in his room, and the gun went off.Miller and Casey tell him that he needs to be honest with his father. "Tell the truth?" Chang says. "Guys that is so white."They hear a knock at the door, and thinking it is Dr. Chang, Chang opens it. However it is Randy who punches Chang to the ground with a baseball bat and starts destroying things for the earlier dart incident. Dr. Chang shows up and asks Randy who the hell he is. Randy threatens Dr. Chang and tells him his son won't be making that interview. Seeing it coming, Chang, Miller, and Casey wince as Dr. Chang takes the bat and beats up Randy. He then tells his son to come with him.Chang finally stands up to his dad, and says he doesn't want to be a doctor. Dr. Chang seemingly understands, then says he understands that he raised a worthless piece of shit son. Miller, having enough, punches Dr. Chang for bad talking his son like that. Chang tells his father to leave, and he does. Randy gets back up and tells Chang is father is a dick too and apologizes for being an asshole. Though weirded out, he accepts Randy's apology and Randy and his crew leave peacefully.Chang feels great as he can now do what he wants in life. Chang tells his friends that he wants to start doing music again, and really enjoy life for once as now every decision will be his own. Casey gets an epiphany and tells them he'll see them later, running to catch Nicole. "You're ruining the moment, dick," Miller screams after him. Chang sighs and notes, "My fucking dick hurts."Casey sees Nicole's car pull away and is sad to have just missed her. Nicole calls out to him nearby though; she is letting her friend borrow it while she is away. Nicole asks if he has something to tell her. Casey says yeah and kisses her. They proceed to make out.3 MONTHS LATERCasey, Nicole, Miller, and Chang are at the Sidewinder festival. Miller is making out with hippie girls like he wanted, and Chang apparently has a girlfriend. Casey and Nicole are a couple, as well. Miller says he has a meeting with the college board about getting back to school so they can't go too crazy. Casey smirks and Chang says he is the "little baby" tonight.Cut to the next morning with Miller with crutches due to a broken foot, hair highlighted half red, and wearing a jumpsuit with "Coroner" on the back, late for his interview. He gets into the office with the professor he is meeting only to realize it is The Chief. The Chief laughs and says Miller looks like shit and Miller laughs at his good fortune; at least with The Chief, he has someone who understands the ideal of a good time and he should still have a good shot of getting back into school.

Review: If the "The Hangover" and "Project X" were fused together to make one new film, the result would be "21 and Over." From the same writers of the Hangover, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, "21 and Over" is a film that taps into the college demographic by concentrating on some of the issues that affect a lot of students throughout the United States — binge drinking, beer pong games, sex and parties.This comedy follows three best friends who have fallen out of touch since graduating from high school and transitioning into college.
They try to meet up on important occasions, in this case Jeff Chang's (Justin Chon) birthday.Jeff Chang is finally turning 21 and with that age his best friends, Casey (Skylar Astin) and Miller (Miles Teller), believe comes a new stage in Chang's life; one filled with alcohol and girls.Chang is a straight-A student who is preparing for an upcoming interview to gain admittance to medical school.
The night takes an unexpected turn when Jeff Chang becomes unresponsive after overdrinking.Following the same formula used in "The Hangover," "21 and Over" attempts to win audiences over by using a lot of crude humor including many physical jokes.Miles Teller (Miller) takes most of the spotlight with his straightforward dialogue and comedic timing.
While it offers a few laughs, too many scenes are either lackluster, or exaggerated, and some of the humor is forced."The Hangover" was much more imaginative than "21 and Over," which has fewer plot twists and a rushed ending.Even worse, the film reinforces all possible stereotypes including the smart Asian, the party alcoholic white male, crazy Latinas, and out of control college students.The film is far from a masterpiece.
Sure, a couple of other moments are funny at the time, if only because at least one of the guys -- Casey -- doesn't seem like he deserved to be put through them, but they're kind of bland for the genre.There are a few running gags scattered throughout -- always calling Jeff Chang by his full name being one of them -- but most of the humor in "21 and Over" comes from the situations themselves.
Sure, the film is about these three guys -- although it's really two of them because Jeff Chang isn't awake for most of his screen time -- but if you want to continue bringing back these secondary characters, at least treat them with a little respect.I'm sure that all of these actors have talent.
One's own experiences and perspectives change with age, and Lucas and Moore are out of touch with the current 20s generation as the dialogue, story development, and characters in "21 and Over" are old, clichéd, and stereotypical.The movie took a while to pick up the pace.
Surprisingly and thankfully Jeff Chang is not the main focus in this film, nothing against the actors (these newcomers did a great job), but the supposed main character burned through his drinking and bar scenes early on in a series of montages.Some of the likable aspects of this movie are the timing of the stunts and how outrageous the stunts are.
This is the directorial debut of Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, who wrote "The Hangover (2009)." "21 & Over" pretends to take chances even as it retraces the same sequences we've already seen in movies like--well--"The Hangover." It's hard to completely hate "21 & Over," but you cannot really laugh at it either.
I think the last film I saw was 'Movie 43' and that made me lose faith in laughter and happiness Anyway, '21 & over' certainly isn't the funniest comedy ever but there are a decent amount of laughs and cringe moments.
Astin's Casey is the stuffed shirt who's already on the fast track to a career on Wall Street after he graduates; Chon's Jeff is the stressed-out A-student whose dad is pressuring him to ace a med school interview the next day; and Teller's Miller is the Stiffler-type wise-ass who refuses to grow up, convinced that the only life worth living is one patterned after the "American Pie" movies.Against their better judgment, Astin and Teller- take Chon out for a celebratory bender, resulting in what anyone with any knowledge of how these things customarily work out in the movies can plainly predict.
Great, time for another beer.I was aware that this film looked quite poor from the trailer and copious amounts of bad reviews, however, as i walked into the cinema, merry after a few beers i thought it may be a nice easy watching movie with a few cheap laughs.
Like anybody planning to sleep in a catharsis of vomit and food consumed from the afternoon, 21 & Over is a raunchy, absurd, highly energetic and overly confident comedy that unapologetically assaults its audience members with inappropriateness from beginning to end.On the day of Jeff Chang's (Justin Chon) 21st birthday, his old friends Casey (Skylar Astin) and Miller (Miles Teller) show up to his residence on campus.
What starts off with just a few drinks and a bit of misdirection turns out to be a rip-roaring journey into the dark corners of Jeff Chang's college campus.Where 21 & Over succeeds and other movies like it fail is in the underlying themes and chemistry.
To think how people in other countries see the twentysomethings of America after these films really makes me upset.Our story immediately breeds contempt with his familiarity; two collegian friends named Miller (Miles Teller) and Casey (Skylar Astin) decide to pick up their friend Jeff Chang (Justin Chon) to party on his twenty-first birthday.
When Jeff Chang gets so drunk and incoherent that he can't stand up straight, Miller and Casey carry him around town, haplessly, Weekend at Bernie's-style, searching for his house in order to get him ready for his interview in a few hours.Watching these nitwits wander around town, in search of their pals home, while dragging him on his feet, carrying him like an infant, or tossing him in the back of a golf-cart as they go down the stairs is not one of the definitions of comedy for me.
If there's one positive to come out of all of this, it will give me time to reflect on my choice of friends in the future.My video review of 21 and Over, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63C8Aubcv8cStarring: Miles Teller, Skylar Astin, Justin Chon, and Sarah Wright.
In all honesty i was looking forward to this film, After the trailer showed us a rip roaring comedy with plenty of that silly teenage comedy we have all came to know and love The part of this trailer states from the people who brought you The Hangover, (Must of been the script writer) as this film shows every sign of a Hangover film, with all its twists and turns and 3 friends who really don't have a clue where their night will take them Does this mean i like the movie NO!
Don't kid yourself, This film has very rare laughs, and by rare i mean every once in a while you will give in to you're childishness and laugh at a moment you would not generally choose to laugh at, From the cheesy teenage hijinks production of seen it all before and far better done, to the oh they really went there I could forgive this film a lot more if it wasn't for the huge gaping plot holes in the film that make the entire movie obsolete from the get go Non of the characters are very likable, (even the one you're meant to like is unlikeable) Maybe I'm just picking at a movie which just either was not my humor (Although the hangover and American pie are my favorite comedy's) or just a film which tried to hard to be the film people we're expecting I personally give this film a 4 out of 10 Be the judge yourself.
The Hangover has been getting progressively worse so what do you expect when the same writers turn their skills to a story about 21 year old college kids having a crazy naked drunken night before the med school interview of one of them.This movie is so terribly written it's not even funny in it's vulgarity.
The movie has been compared to other similar teen sex/party films (like last year's 'PROJECT X') as well as the great 'HANGOVER'.
I'd say while it doesn't match the greatest of all drunk party films ('THE HANGOVER') it does make a very nice and somewhat classic (in its own right) youth gone wild film all the same.Chon plays Jeff Chang (who's full name is used at all times, even by his two best friends, which some say is racism), a straight-A college student who's been studying to be a doctor.
His two best friends, Casey (Astin, who looks an awful lot like a younger Dane Cook) and Miller (Teller), who haven't seen Jeff in a while, decide to show up at his place on his 21st birthday to take him out partying.
The movie has a very similar formula and style to 'THE HANGOVER' and while it might not be as good as that classic film it is better than it's first sequel (and probably it's second).
the dialogs are exhausting and tacky, and of course, they had to push in some cheap love story.The feeling i got, is that the writers just wanted to add another movie to their records and few bucks to their wallets , and didn't really give much thought on making it original or funny, but played it safe with usual college humor.For me it was a waste of time and money, but hey, if it was free and i was watching it on TV with nothing else better to do - i might have stuck till the end.long story short : if your'e over 21, I don't recommend this movie..
21 & Over (2013) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Friends Miller (Miles Teller) and Casey (Shylar Astin) show up to Jeff Chang's (Justin Chon) house to take him out for his 21st birthday.
This film follows college students Miller and Casey (played by Miles Teller and Skylar Astin), who hope to take their friend Jeff Chang (played by Justin Chon) out for a drink for his 21st birthday.
However, what was supposed to a quick night of a few drinks unexpectedly turns into a night of endless debauchery when the Jeff Chang becomes passed out drunk and Miller and Casey cannot remember where he lives.While this movie isn't anything original as it follows nearly the same plot as The Hangover, a group of friends who get wasted, lose one of their friends and can't remember what happened the previous night, it surprisingly still brought out the laughs and humor the writers of The Hangover have been made known for.
"All I need is a little help from my friends" goes the line from the Beatles song and that is exactly what Jeff Chang (Justin Chon) discovers in his two best pals from high school Miller (Miles Teller) and Casey (Skylar Astin) do when they come to visit him at school to celebrate the coming of age 21 birthday.
The whole teenagers at college thing becomes boring and its nothing that we haven't seen before in movies like American Pie. There obviously left it open for a sequel, which I won't be rushing to see, but judging by the money that it made, I'm sure that they will be laughing all the way to the bank.
That is the case, until your very close friends surprise you and will not hear another word; to them 21st equals hard partying, period!This is one of the more hilarious films of recent times and although the Hollywood tendency to go over the top is ever present, yet it has good humour and allows us to penetrate a little deeper inside the leading characters.What started as an innocent night out goes pretty bad, but it happens for a purpose as true friends would not give up trying to rescue their buddy...at any cost.
Miller (Miles Teller) and Casey (Skylar Austin) surprise old friend Jeff Chang (Justin Chon) by showing up at his doorstep.
We then flashback to the day before as straitlaced Casey (Skylar Astin) and partying Miller (Miles Teller) visit their old high school friend Jeff Chang (Justin Chon) on campus to celebrate his 21st birthday.Jeff Chang has an important interview the next morning for a medical school and his father is stern and uptight.
21 & Over follows two boys Casey and Miller who just want to show there best friend Jeff Chang a good time for once in his life.
The film is unpredictable and funny to watch and weirdly I believe teaches a sort off lesson that maybe sticking to the normal go to high school, go to college, get job routine that every person seems to do isn't necessary correct enjoying your life is important to, I like this film..
This movie was pretty good for its genre, it made me laugh and it surprised me, it didn't even feel like The Hangover for college aged.
I don't know Jeff Chang guy was the best pick to play that role but I felt Miles Teller was little annoying, maybe because the character was developed like that I guess.This Adnveturous night takes place on 21st birthday of one of the main character, while celebration they get lost and how they end everything they have started is the rest.
You've seen everything else, in every other frat boy movie ever.Teller and Astin are game for everything thrown their way, and both are charismatic enough to make the 90 minutes fly by, but the film feels like a retread.
And the movie does follow the blueprint for those particular types of movies page by page, line by line.The movie doesn't really bring anything new to the genre that hasn't already been seen or done in other movies in the same particular genre of comedies.The story is about the friends Miller (played by Miles Teller) and Casey (played by Skylar Astin) who go unannounced to pay their friend Jeff Chang (played by Justin Chon) a surprise visit for his 21st birthday.
There are some nice enough scenes and situations throughout the movie, however you are not very likely to lay down flat on your back laughing hard.What makes the movie worth watching a single time is the chemistry between the three lead actors (and their characters) and some of the situations that they end up in."21 & Over" gets a mediocre 5 out of 10 stars from me..
However, one of your best friends is making it all the more reason to go out and have fun, "It's the birthday of a life time".21 & Over was inspired by the film The Hangover...
However it does it's pretty well and if you simply want a film about drunkenness to make you laugh this is it, it won't win any Oscars, comedies rarely do.The stunts and jokes get to the point of ridiculous, but they are at least consistent, it's one of those movies that seem to have an endless night, think Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist but there is a plot to it, even if it's not that deep.
21 & Over Not only do you have to wait 21 years to drink in the States, but you also have to drink weak-ass American beer when you do.However, the friends in this comedy are still carrying on with their rites of passage.On Jeff's (Justin Chon) 21st birthday, his pals Casey (Skylar Astin) and Miller (Miles Teller) show up at his dorm to take him out.Standing in their way is Jeff's overassertive father (Francois Chau), who's there to escort him to a medical school interview.But Miller convinces Jeff to have a drink and that leads to more drinks and sexual mischief that ultimately reveals a dark secret about Jeff.Tackling parental pressure to succeed while performing a keg stand, 21 & Over's is too immature to be taken serious and too clichéd to be advisable.Incidentally, with helicopter parenting, nowadays your parents go to the same ABC Parties as you.Red Light vidiotreviews.blogspot.com.
Don't get me wrong, it isn't the Hangover, but has similarities due to having the same writers.Acting/Casting: 7* - Miles Teller has impeccable delivery in this film and without that this movie would not have been as funny.
The music accompanies the film well and this was a well put together comedy.Plot/Characters: 6* - Jeff Chang is turning 21 and his buddies have come up to visit and show him a good time.
Some of the them include; it isn't good enough for people wanting more, we have seen films like this in the past and executed better, most of the jokes aren't funny (including many racist jokes by Miller), the dialogue is filled with constant F bombs which is okay when well written but this was overboard, a lot of stereotypes of characters in the film, and the overall plot and the way it all happened was unrealistic..
We then see longtime buddies Miller (Miles Teller, "Project X," another vivid example of how today's youth and unlimited partying definitely does not go together) and Casey (Skylar Astin, "Pitch Perfect") travel to an anonymous college town to visit a third chum, the super brainiac, Jeff Chang (Justin Chon, "Twilight") to help him celebrate his 21st birthday.
'The Hangover' scribes Scott Moore and Jon Lucas get behind the director's chair together for their first time with this comedy and they prove they have as much skill as Todd Phillips when telling a college tale about drinking and debauchery.We first me Miller (Miles Teller), who is a fast talking wise-ass who is on his way to one of his high-school best friend's college campus, in order to celebrate his friend's 21st birthday.
Twas the night before his big medical school interview, when young Jeff Chang (Justin Chon) was surprised by his two best friends from high school, Miller (Miles Teller) and Casey (Skylar Astin), who both have made special trips just to celebrates Jeff's 21st birthday.