Rating of
2/4
Needed to be Edgier
Franz Patrick - wrote on 12/07/08
I would have liked this movie more if it had been more daring. I thought that since “Young People F***ing” was a small film, I thought it would go the extra mile to be as offensive, sexually explicit, and experimental as it could to stand out against typical Hollywood teenage sex fares. Instead, we get a bunch of characters beginning with a “problem” and not learning anything from it in the long run–like most Hollywood teenage sex fares. Aside from Callum Blue, the rest of the cast are unknown to me: Aaron Abrams, Diora Baird, Sonja Bennett, Kristin Booth, Josh Cooke, Josh Dean, Ennis Esmer, Natalie Lisinska, Peter Oldring, and Carly Pope. Aside from Booth and Dean’s storyline–the married couple who are bored with their sex life–the rest are dull and uninvolving. I rarely get up to do something else while I’m watching a movie… I did so while watching this picture. But what I like about the movie is that the characters are allowed to talk even though they happen to talk about something deep and insightful only 10% of the time. Those moments made me think and I hoped there would be more of them toward the end of the film. One can tell that the filmmakers had a low budget and the director, Martin Gero, did not have enough experience because the style of the storytelling is stagnant. At times, the movie felt more like a play than anything. I think with a better group of writers to spice up the story and make the dialogue more snarky, this would have had the potential to become a cult film. Unfortunately, that is far from the case.
