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The Boys and Girls Guide to Getting Down

Get out of the theatre with your bad self!
By PAUL BABIN  |  March 28, 2007
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PARTY SCENERY: Who needs it?

Sex, drugs, and stupidity become the stuff of sociological study in this simple-minded parody of the LA party scene. In his feature debut, Paul Sapiano offsets a crude visual style and flashy performances with a strait-laced voiceover about dating rituals in an attempt at satire. But he has no sense of comic timing, and his actors are just as clueless, so the jokes fizzle. And cinematographer Roman Jakobi’s manic visual rhythms don’t help, with his camera moving klutzily about the frame. The whole movie is one running gag — it’s like watching a stand-up comedian perform the same stereotyped impersonation over and over.
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    Hall, who musters up so much emotion within a narrow role, deserves better, though the Aflac duck is all he’s quacked up to be.
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    Who would have thought that happiness was just a leap across the generation gap?
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    Sex, drugs, and stupidity become the stuff of sociological study in this simple-minded parody of the LA party scene.
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