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.
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Party Monster (2003)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:4
Rotten:23
Average Rating:3.9/10
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
Top CriticA mess.
12/05/03
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
Top CriticYou haven't seen this many outrageous costumes since the Halloween parade on Cedar Springs.
11/06/03
Top CriticThere are many ways of depicting an innocent's descent into hell, but the camp approach is surely the least advisable.
10/24/03
Top CriticGracelessly executed, it throws out mock documentary, fantasy sequences and rapid montages, but still drags on woefully, and looks like it was soaked in dirty water.
10/24/03
Top CriticAs wasteful an example of indie-picture indulgence and incompetence as you're likely to find.
10/10/03
Top CriticThere is nothing remotely affecting about Party Monster.
10/10/03
Top CriticNever goes deeper than what you might get out of Dr. Phil on a bad day.
10/03/03
Top CriticThe wanton fabulistas of Party Monster are as boring and insignificant as the very 'normals and drearies' they so contemptuously deride.
10/03/03
Top CriticIt 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
Top CriticThis film feels fake, forced and indigestible.
09/18/03
Top Critic[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
Top CriticIf I hadn't had a professional obligation to stay until the end, I'd have disappeared faster than the coke that's snorted up Alig's nose.
09/06/03
Top CriticBoth pointless and grotesque, it accomplishes nothing but the impossible: It makes the charismatic look merely tiresome, and dangerous decadence look deadly dull.
09/05/03
Top CriticCulkin may be 24, but he still seems in the throes of the sort of awkward adolescence that dooms so many child stars.
09/05/03
Top Critic[Culkin's] performance in Party Monster is so embarrassing one doesn't know where to look. (Well, perhaps at the exit.)
09/05/03
Top CriticAlig 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 CriticA bold and engrossing drama.
09/04/03
Top Critic[Culkin and Green's] assortment of vocal tics, nervous laughs and over-the-top 'nancy-ness' often are very funny and appropriately giddy.
09/04/03
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