mostly boring, mostly unfunny, and mostly annoying because it's not funn
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lukejbarnett2002 — 9 years ago(April 10, 2016 09:53 PM)
watching things unfold at their own pace? how about nothing ever happens? the movie is about nothing. it's just a mishmash of shenanigans which don't lead to anything happening. it doesn't have a story.
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holbrookp — 9 years ago(April 11, 2016 03:05 AM)
Well, comedies of this sort don't need much of a story, just a series of situations. Buster Keaton made this point in his autobiography in an anecdote involving a film he wanted to do when he was at MGM but Irving Thalberg rejected it due to its not having a good story. He couldn't get Thalberg to understand that the film didn't need as much of a plot as he was insisting on. That's the kind of comedy THE PARTY tries to be.
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lukejbarnett2002 — 9 years ago(April 11, 2016 04:39 PM)
then explain to me the story of the party? I mean you have to have some story, something happening to keep viewers interested. and nothing ever happens in this movie. it's just random, and meaningless comedy vignettes. it might as well be a sketch comedy show sketches.
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jsk32870 — 9 years ago(October 05, 2016 03:32 PM)
I mostly agree with you on this. There is no real story, and certainly no moral to the story. The plot revolves around a bumbling foreigner trying to fit in at an exclusive Hollywood partyand that's about it. The rest of the movie is just the ridiculous situations he either creates, or finds himself in. And that could be all you need, if there were enough funny situations or dialogue to go along with it. Sometimes you don't need more than that (Seinfeld was famous for being about 'nothing' too). But this is the second part on which I agree - I was genuinely surprised about how unfunny this movie was at times.
Don't get me wrong, there were some funny parts for sure, the bathroom fail maybe the best of them. There were a few other memorable scenes, and Hrundi's sad attempts to fit in (like with the cowboy) were kind of funny. But the ending really fell off the cliff for me. It seems like fifteen minutes or more devoted to a bunch of kids bringing a painted elephant to a party? And then the commotion that ensued when it was decided to wash the elephant of the paint it was covered in? Umok? I'm not sure what that was, but it wasn't funny, it was boring, I agree. It just kept dragging on. OK the house is filled with foam.sorry that just fell seriously flat. At least if things happened to make me laugh, I wouldn't have questioned where the story was going. But nothing happened to make me laugh. Just a lot of expanding foam and Mrs. Clutterbuck falling into the foam twice and that's about it. The film just died a slow death there IMO. -
wisable — 9 years ago(January 02, 2017 12:46 AM)
To appreciate this (which I happen to, and it's become a new year's eve tradition with my Mom), it takes a willingness to suspend belief and logic. This movie is
SILLY
. I love it for that reason, but I understand it's not to everyone's taste.
It, for me anyway, also plays on a fantasy of living in, or at least visiting, a very rich house, with just about anything you could want, i.e. their current top-of-the-line gadgetry. That sunken living room with its round fireplace is just too groovy for words.
My suggestion is watch it with a group of friends, set out the people num nums, and join the party in real time. Pretty soon I think you'll start having fun.
Don't worry about how realistic it isn't, or that it's vacuous. Just share it and you may find yourself quoting stuff I really look forward to seeing it every year with my Mom. It's ridiculous and the characters are all koo koo (even the snobby lady who doesn't speak Hindustani) ..