Thursday, December 16, 2004

At first thought, it looked like a Road trip/ American Pie / Harold and Kumar (I love this movie!!!) type of silly movie. I watched it because SFS was screening, and it was either this or Before the Sunset ... and I thought it would be interesting to watch Seth Green and Mathew Lillard, and Burt Reynolds, act ... silly.

First impression after watching it ... Seth Green is really short. No wonder he could act next to Mike Myers in Austin Powers ...

Second impression ... I don't have any. I couldn't figure out why this movie was made, if you know what I mean ...

It was only now, when I think of it, this movie, about guys at the threshold of their lives (erm, around the age of 30), saddled with the fear of commitment and losing grip of one's youthful ideals ... could this be mirroring my own life? My existence? The film certainly echos the much fabled "quarter-life crisis" crippling a generation of us late twenty-something males, without a paddle ... yep, I can see myself clearly now ... the need to run away from it all, to do something for our dear friend, to do one final silly act, before we go back to embrace society ...

If that is the case, then, I can safely say I find this movie entertaining and worthy of my forgiving take. I was contented, for once, to sit through a movie, not screened at Cineleisure, not foreign, not angst-ridden, not documentary ... just, silly, lah ...

I thought Mathew Lillard was a rather good actor. Hope to see him in future ... meatier roles ...

Go watch it.

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