Cry Funny Happy

Yuck. This film was a waste of time. The premise isn't so bad with a lot of old friends getting together at a party. The results are they just all start fighting and screaming at each other for at least the last half of the movie. I understand it was low budget and all but there was a point where you could see the camera guy reflected in a picture on the wall. Way to take away any inkling that this could really happen! Spare yourself!

My God! I had to watch the credits to see if this was actually scripted. It was. It was??!??! What a disappointment. To be honest, my only shallow reason for staying tuned in (I saw it on Sundance) was because the protagonist reminded me of the managing editor of a magazine about ten years ago. I couldn't take my eyes off that guy and I couldn't take my eyes off the guy in the movie. I wouldn't added all this but I couldn't submit my review without more lines of text.

All the players in the movie seemed to be going out of their way to seem believable. Only the hot protagonist who reminded me of my managing editor was believable as far as I'm concerned.

I like indie movies, but this one was another of the kind that damages crossover appeal for this type of film. 2 hours of a party filled with people you wouldn't want to hang out with for ten minutes.

Skip this one.

This is a really bad film. I'm forced to say more because there is a minimum of ten lines in order to have my comment posted, and this movie was so bad I feel an obligation to warn the general public. It was screened at Sundance (?) and then later on Channel 13 (???) where I saw it. It is incredibly heavy handed with a topic (?) that doesn't stand up under such weight; the melodrama the characters infused into everyday situations felt much less like an interesting commentary on how the general "we" conduct our lives and much more like overwrought / indulgent whining. There was a small bit of decent acting, but it was ruined by all of the hissy fits and at times atrociously lame writing. This is one party that promises (SUNDANCE? PBS???) a lot more than it delivers.

I love indie movies, even marginal or bad ones. Unfortunately, if I see many more as horrible as this one, I may have to reconsider. How this made it onto Sundance channel is beyond me. A bunch of self-important, self-obsessed, miserable East Coast thirtysomethings for the most part behaving badly. Technically passable (for an indie), with passable performances, covering ground that nobody could care much about.