Like Alig, Party Monster is a colorful mess, all style and substances and little else.
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11/09/03
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Party Monster (2003)
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Reviews Counted:73
Fresh:19
Rotten:54
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: The lurid display of camp soon turns tedious.
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... [More]
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Wilson Cruz, Chloe Sevigny
Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
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Reviews for Party Monster
It's camp, trashy and altogether too silly for its own good, only proving that 23-year-old Culkin is far from leaving childish things behind.
08/27/03
It takes some doing to make a potentially epic cultural moment seem smaller than life, but Bailey and Barbato have pulled it off.
09/19/03
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02/02/04
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09/28/03
One is left wondering, whose story is this, anyway?
04/27/03
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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05/24/03
Alig is played by Macaulay Culkin, in his first movie since Richie Rich (1994), and it is a fearless performance as a person so shallow, narcissistic and amoral that eventually even his friends simply stare at him in disbelief.
09/05/03
Top CriticIn the end you don't believe what you're watching, and you don't care.
09/04/03
Top CriticThe plot is sordid and predictable -- indiscriminate nightclubbing leads to escalating drugs, promiscuity, and violence.
09/04/03
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
'Party Monster' is so concerned with flash and style that it forgets to provide anything of substance to chew on and even the flash and style isn’t anything we haven’t seen before.
09/04/03
You haven't seen this many outrageous costumes since the Halloween parade on Cedar Springs.
11/06/03
Top CriticIn the end, for all the vibrancy, there's not much there there. Maybe that's the point, but I doubt it.
11/07/03
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
There is nothing remotely affecting about Party Monster.
10/10/03
Top CriticAs wasteful an example of indie-picture indulgence and incompetence as you're likely to find.
10/10/03
A real-life horror show of beautiful people, which is visually striking and disturbing all at once.
09/05/03
[I] found the camera work to be very murky, the direction to be confused, the music go in the way of it instead of actually augmenting it.
09/08/03
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