Thursday, 7 December 2006

All Messed Up **1/2

I would say the first two stars are given for Anne Hathaway's hefty presence - one for each of her boobs, but really they aren't all that great even. In fact, I felt a little uncomfortable with the amount of gratuitous nudity in this supposed teen-flick, or maybe it was just a movie about teens starring 'teens' that's not meant to be watched by teens. Whatever.

There is a certain edgy feel to the whole movie, like something is about to burst out and happen but sadly, nothing really does. The world of bored upper-middle onwards class teenagers portrayed here is seriously messed up - they're either whacked on crack or sound like they're whacked on crack with weird fako accents, totally irrational or drawn towards committing irrationally nihilistic acts and bonking all the time at parties or trying to get bonked. Perhaps one should feel some pity for their messed-up lives, but somehow their apathy towards themselves and the world they live in is strangely contagious and I found myself not really caring either whether they kill themselves with crack or in a shootout with drug dealers.

Havoc is not an in-apt title for a sketch of the chaos these teens create and live in, but it fails to delve deeper either into the characters or the issues lightly brushed upon. It won't make much difference whether you watch it or not, and even Anne's twin assets aren't enough to make me sit through it another time.

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