Party Monster (2003)
26 %
Reviews Counted: 73 Fresh: 19 Rotten:54 Average Rating: 4.3/10
Consensus:
The lurid display of camp soon turns tedious.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Theatrical Release: Sep 5, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $296,665
Synopsis: With PARTY MONSTER, directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE) rework their 1999 shockumentary into a feature film. Based on the book by James St. James, PARTY MONSTER tells the lurid tale of Michael Alig (Macauley Culkin), a self-made party promoter who made a big... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Wilson Cruz, Chloe Sevigny, Natasha Lyonne
Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Screenwriter: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Producer: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Jon Marcus, Brad Simpson, Christine Vachon
Composer: Jimmy Harry
Screenwriter: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Producer: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Jon Marcus, Brad Simpson, Christine Vachon
Composer: Jimmy Harry
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06/24/06
Rule No. 1: If you use black humor in a film about real-life characters and events, make sure you have a feel for it first.
03/30/04
Culkin se esforça, mas não convence como o bissexual Michael Alig. Em contrapartida, Seth Green rouba o filme com sua ótima performance.
02/02/04
Never has the Manhattan club scene ever looked so tedious; this film makes a powerful argument for staying home and renting a movie.
01/22/04
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01/15/04
Perhaps Party Monster’s limited distribution will keep this clunker from interrupting Seth Green's rise to the top of the Hollywood food chain.
12/15/03
It's the drunk-guy- at-the-party syndrome: The only one truly entertained by the clown with the lamp shade on his head is the clown with the lamp shade on his head -- or folks similarly inebriated.
12/12/03
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Memo to Macaulay Culkin: When your latest cinematic 'comeback' attempt is a film like Party Monster, maybe remaining in career limbo wasn't such a bad idea.
12/05/03
The look, like Culkin's self-consciously manic performance, is all surface -- which may be the point of profiling these empty lives, but not enough reason to make us watch.
12/05/03
Fact-based story of drugs and death in "clubland" is boring and banal, failing in its attempt to shock and scandalize.
11/20/03
We begin the film not knowing what brought Michael and James together. We end, after a too-long 98 minutes, precisely the same way.
11/14/03
"... equal parts freakish fashion show and tawdry melodrama of the rise and fall of a superficial celebrity."
11/13/03
As a human document 'Party Monster' is pretty much a disaster...shapeless and sloppy.
11/10/03
Like Alig, Party Monster is a colorful mess, all style and substances and little else.
11/09/03
In the end, for all the vibrancy, there's not much there there. Maybe that's the point, but I doubt it.
11/07/03
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