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Load of rubbish!!

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

I really wanted to support someone from the YouTube community that made it to the big screen and I was looking forward to see this film. Sadly the movie was unfunny and poorly written. The jokes were mostly puke/poop/fart ones, repetitive, forced and badly executed. The movie consisted only of sappy sitcom scenes and the previously mentioned doubtful humor. And what's with all the sex, rape, dicks, boobs and stereotypes? I don't mind using any of this in comedy, because in comedy we should learn how to laugh at everything. But that wasn't making a joke about it, it was putting it there as the joke. Like when you make a scene with dick sucking through a glory hole and the girl on the other side being loud and obnoxious it doesn't make it a "joke". It's just a loud dick sucking scene. It's unnecessary, cheap and targeted for retarded people. HO HO HO dick, toilet, sucking, screaming...that's funny!Hope he'll make something better next time.

First let me say this, I had no idea who Shane Dawson was prior to watching The Chair on Starz. I very much enjoyed the entire series and watching how these films actually come together and get made. I respect Shane Dawson and the fact that he stayed true to his goal of targeting a certain demographic and making no apologies about making a movie for his target fans. This "vision" he had for this movie and his target audience both helped and hurt him. It held him back in the holly wood aspect, but helped him in the actual theaters because his fans showed up for him (only when he was actually making a personal appearance),and helped him win the grand prize. Lets be clear, I've seen both movies, and Hollidaysburg is definitely the better movie in every way. Hollidaysburg has mass appeal where as Shanes movie will have a much more difficult time finding an audience that likes it outside the 12-17 y.o girl demographic.The first mistake of this movie (which sinks it from jump street) is the total miscasting of the Lead Character. Shane decided he would be the lead for this movie and play a character that's suppose to have been the really cool popular guy in his high school. Prom King and all around ladies man that every girl had a crush on. REALLY? This was a HUGE ego driven mistake that really affected the movie. Shane is in no way believable as the "cool guy". He's not good looking or masculine enough, he certainly doesn't have the voice or the style to pull this off ,and his energy is just kind of feminine IMO. The whole cutting the hair storyline only works if your hair is cool to begin with. I guess in the teen world a red haired Beiber cut is cool? So Because Shane's role as the cool guy is in no way convincing it takes away from the Chemistry between him and the female Lead(Cherami Leigh) Tori. This makes the main storyline between Scott and Tori not very believable from jump street.The second miscasting is Drew Monson as Joel. Although I believe Drew is immensely talented as an actor he's in no way right for this role. He's supposed to be the guy that went away to college and became a kind of a pimp with lots of action from the women in college. He comes back to the burg and wants to land his high school crush Janie(Michelle Veintimilla) as his girl.The problem again lies in the fact that Joel (Drew Monson) has very little if any Masculine energy AT ALL. Maybe its just me, but from his energy and presence I find it hard to believe that Joel (Drew Monson)is not gay. He's putting his hair behind his ear with two fingers every ten seconds in the movie, and his hanging hand gestures just read feminine/gay all day long. So even though the interactions between Joel and Janie are hilarious at times , its just not believable because of the Chemistry, or lack of.Cherami Leigh as Tori is brilliant, as are the rest of the cast in the female roles.Lisa Schwartz's role as Tori's blind sister Marissa was AWESOME. She really brought her A game to her role and I was left wanting more from her and Tori's interactions. As for the humor in the movie and all the talk about offensive material and politically incorrect , blah blah blah. The humor is no more offensive then any other film with this type of humor. Its blatant in your face over the top slapstick comedy with stereotypes and politically incorrect overly sexual information technology driven satire. This kind of humor resonates with today's youth and even managed to get a few chuckles out of me.The bottom line is this, If it not for the miscasting of the main characters Shane actually could have this movie much better. His off the wall you tube characters were pretty funny and the actual storyline or plot of the movie were not bad. Its the execution that came out bad. Wrong casting, not enough character development between Scott and Tori. We get no real vested insight into to Scott's Psyche besides the fact that you GET NO idea who Scott's original girlfriend is that broke up with him at the start of the movie. Why would "The most popular cool guy in high school" have ever wanted to be with a total psycho dumb over top type chick. Remember that the premise here is that Scott is supposed to be hurt from the breakup and Discovers Tori by accident Literally. The comparisons to 16 candles and other teen comedies that were hugely popular really don't have any place here. Those movies were cast perfectly and all had a very clear and defined storyline with really great character development that helped you buy in. NOT-COOL has none of that going for it with exception to some of the less important female roles.Shane stuck to his vision and demographic, and came out with a seriously flawed movie that only appeals to his core fans. Although talented He missed a real opportunity to gain some mass appeal and make a teen comedy that could have gained him some real recognition as a filmmaker who is serious about telling stories to a broad audience.

The good: the shots were in focus, lit well and sound clear. The bad: scripted acting, unbelievable characters and loads of low brow jokes. The ugly: the parts between the beginning and the end. I can see why the producers were so irate at the final product. In fact, they didn't even want their name on the film. I cannot believe that Dawson actually won $250,000 for this worthless garbage. And what's up with the Justin Beber hair? Epic fail. Don't waste time on this empty calorie bad flick. Honestly I find that it is truly difficult to write and fill up ten lines regarding this film. Why bother writing anything at all? Well, when a bridge is out ahead, it's customary to post a sign of warning. Consider yourself appropriately warned.

First the good. There are a few good gross out jokes. The lead actress has talent and personality and she should find more (and better) work. Now the bad, It's actually surprising how unfunny the movie is overall. I expected more gross out laughs, but it largely misses. One of the strangest, most unexpected things about the movie is that it is just your standard, basic coming home story done in an aggressively and not terribly funny outlandish style. It tries so hard to be Porky's for a new generation, but (and this is really sad), it doesn't even have the humor of that mediocre movie. A true failure at so many levels.