Dance Party, USA

Dance Party, USA is not a bad addition to the Mumblecore family in any way. It does feel cheap and kinda amateurish, but since I know thats what these movies are supposed to feel like, I won't take it out on the filmmaker.

If you even know what this movie is and are aware of this new Mumblecore movement of late, then you'll probably want to check it out. It's got some good moments in it, but for the most part its kind of boring and pointless. But again, thats really what all Mumblecore movies are, so I didn't think it was too bad.

A final note; these kind of movies really make you want to go out and make your own film. It makes you believe that all you need is a digital camera, some friends and a 70 page script and you're done. Its a bit more complicated than that, but Mumblecore is something new and something different. I can definitely see these movies becoming the new face of Independent cinema, because guys like Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith have made it very difficult to make Indie films along the same lines as their work.

This is a beginner movie. The story is lost in long pauses in the dialogue. And like a telenovela, one can fast forward without losing anything. At least, when they filmed on actual film the time meant money. Now the time means time, and that the whole team seems to have in excess. The script is slow. The dialogue is slow. The delivery of the dialogue is even slower. The camera is annoying. The editing is bad. Overall something that had to be done in order to get the grades.

I feel each person in here has something more to offer. But they do it like it's a chore.

for all its flaws, and there are quite a few (as to be expected from such a low budget, first time feature), i was rather moved by this film. what i liked about it - and what i thought set it apart from "typical" mumblecore movies - was that it was actually about something; namely, the exploration of a certain type of person. you know him, or you've seen him at parties, the guy who loudly professes his conquests, bragging about the girls he's slept with. in this film, you discover that his behavior is actually a front for his insecurity. when i saw the film, i was actually shocked that this guy, gus, was going to be the main character. in mainstream films, he's the loudmouth friend that is always relegated to supporting roles. not so here. and, by the end, we come to understand and perhaps even sympathize with him, knowing that he's taken the first small steps toward a different life.

Boys are boys.

An hour long film presents a story of under-seventeen teens desperate with new instincts awaken and communicating opportunities a life promises.

They are on different stages of sexual liberty while one of them attracted to a same gender mate surely, is overactive in pillow exercising, bearing a secret of a dark experience with a younger girl.

Unlike "Don's Plum", this movie is concentrated at intimate talks between characters in pairs rather than touching sexuality-related topics in a group.

It's a low budget movie. Actors perform well and everything looks natural. Probably, they will overgrow this age as all viewers did.

Well, and where outside some third world countries dance parties differ?

This picture saddened me. I know it represented only a segment of the teenage population, but to believe and I do that some of our young people are unable to express their feeling verbally is troubling. The young actors in this picture seemed to dialog by guessing what the other intended. In the other reviews I became aware of the genre that is being called 'mumblecore.' In my mind this is a tragic step backward in film making. It not only bores but annoys. As much as I would have liked the characters in this picture, I was given no reason to do so. When the picture ended so abruptly, my guess is that the film maker ran out of film, and that didn't bother me one iota.