The movie start pretty light. You got Billy the party prone dude who don't give a shit about his studies, and Nick the serious nerdy guy who is at the university for his futur and clearly not for parties.
I am really sorry but to give a proper opinion of this movie i had to include spoilers. Thing is it start like you would expect, American Pie meet Van Wilder kinda thing but eventually it somewhat make such a huge turn and become serious.
The main character for a fair chunk of the movie was unlikable to me. I was much more with Billy on the whole lets party and have fun vibe. I can understand if university students in life would relate more to Nick as he is closer to reality, but when the 2 characters are such extremes, you tend to go with the more likable funny one.
But as the movie progress, Nick start to enjoy partying and the new things he got like girls to have sex with and such. But eventually before you realize it, Nick is becoming such a jerk and push it way too far. This is where most movies would start the redemption ark. Where the character realize he has been a douche bag, that he is with the wrong girl and apologies and try to correct his mistakes.
But not this movie, everything goes to shit for Nick and he is even rejected by the douchebag fraternity he was pursuing. I knew the movie was on for some time but this is when i tought the redemption ark would start, but boom it just end...
I can respect the idea of the writer, pretty much telling us that becoming something your not just to fit it is not a solution, it can corrupt your good nature as you start to enjoy the "dark side" and eventually when you are rejected by those peoples making you change, you have nothing left. I get all of this but still what a sad and abrupt ending.
The thing is the movie never really show sign of such direction. You are having a good time as a viewer with the parties and girls and seeing that boring nerd becoming finally someone cool, wich is something i always like in movies as i can relate to that, but then it shift so fast into darker territories that you just didn't see it come.
But since it left an impact on me, even if not the one expected, i got to give it credit.
Tingnan pa