Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
A group of deeply privileged friends get together to hangout at the end of the world.
I remember enjoying this one a lot when I was younger, oh boy has it not aged well. Firstly and rather obviously there is the issue of James Franco who is allegedly a Hollywood creep, and then secondly there is such a feeling of smugness and privilege that it makes the film almost hard to watch at times.
Senses of humour change as you age certainly within the last eight years mine has. I didn’t really find myself laughing much at all here and quite often I found the jokes to just be annoying. Moreover, I found the everyman appeal the film was going for to be ruined by the fact that you realise these characters must all have large sums of money and could just buy their way out of the situation, it makes the whole scenario feel far-fetched.
The only sequence that I enjoyed was the Emma Watson scene, she makes it hilarious and I would like to see her do more comedy film she seems to have really great timing.
Overall, it was funny maybe five plus years ago but now it just feels like a group of entitled man childs complaining about being rich.
Pros.
Emma Watson
One or two laughs
Cons.
Mostly unfunny
It feels smug and entitled
A lot of the bits drag on for far too long
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