Who would have thought. YouTubers making their own movie. It happened in the past and that didn't work out that well. I personally love cult movies. It doesn't have to be flawless if it is at least is somewhat entertaining. I watched my fair share of terrible movies, like Birdemic, Grand Theft Auto (1977) and Jennifer's Body. All bad movies, but somehow still entertaining enough to sit through the whole thing. Then you've got this movie. Internet Famous. This whole movie is one big cliché.
Let's start with the concept of this movie. To be honest, it's not terrible. In fact, I actually liked it. Five YouTube stars go on an award show to show that they're worthy of a reality show. And to their own surprise, it wasn't an award show. No, it was a gameshow. You've got the five main characters and everyone is a cliché. You've got the narcissistic guy, the dumb hot chick, the quirky chick, the weird parent and an another narcissistic guy but different cause this one has a cat. At start, this movie seems really promising. You meet the characters and how they got quote on quote internet famous and I actually thought this could work. But to quite honest, it didn't.
The clichés stayed clichés the whole movie. There was no character development, the events in the movie didn't make a lot of sense and overall it felt like a big mess. It felt like an hour and a half YouTube skit that tried really hard to be funny. For example, you've got this dumb hot chick that's surrounded by three cliché nerdy guys that wanted to sleep with her but didn't had the balls to ask her out. At one point one of these guys get the chance to see her naked, but freaked out and closed his eyes. This is an example of the jokes you can expect. Another one, the narcissistic with his cat. He's so full of himself that everyone should notice him and consider him to be an artist. There's this scene where he attends the gameshow and the receptionist didn't recognized him. Of course not, she only knows the cat. The guy goes totally mental and that's the scene. Pretty fun ain't it? And to be fair, the characters are so forgettable that I don't remember much of the three other characters. The examples I gave were of the hot one (of course I'm going to remember that) and the least funny guy.
Verdict
This movie tried way too hard to be funny. It's filled with awkward moments and clichés that are supposed to be funny. I must admit, the concept is very nice. The whole reason why I wanted to watched the whole movie. But sitting through this movie felt like somewhat a chore. If the writing was better, the actors took their roles a little bit more seriously and the direction wasn't all over the place it could have been a really fun movie. If they just had focused less on the jokes and more on the characters, that could make all the differences.
