Fun Size(2012) Film Review

 

Rated PG-13 For Crude And Suggestive Material, Partying And Language

 

1hr 26min/86min.

 

 

 



Fun Size is the newest film released by Nickelodeon. Parents, Don't Be fooled, this is in no way a movie your children should watch for two reasons. 1). Because it is a poorly made film and 2). It may have Nickelodeons pedigree on it but this film seems to raunchy for Nickelodeon. Characters make crude and sexual remarks and jokes, Characters have(Implied) sex and overall, has vulgar language. Nickelodeon confused audiences with the advertising for this film. They advertised it all over their network, clearly  marketing to the people who love Victorious, but the end result was too raunchy for Nickelodeon standerds. The film is going to air on the network in about 2-3 years but they would have to cut roughly, 10-15 minutes out for younger audiences. When they do that, you're only going to have a movie that's a few minutes over an hour. Also no one should have to see this movie unless they tolerate with the low-brow humor on Nickelodeon. If you are one of those people then this is just the film for you!

 

 

Wren DeSantis(Victoria Justice) has the displeasure of taking care of her younger brother Albert on the night of Halloween, the same night when her and her firends want to go to a "Super-Cool" Halloween party where she wants to ask out the man of her dreams. Not much story to go by in this film. That's one of the main problems with the film, It's too predictable. As soon as the movie gets going, you know exactly where it's going. Of course there's the always tired cliche of the main character's dad being dead which I would have sympathy for the character if he served a purpose to the actual story which of course, he does not.

 

 

My main problem with the film is the overall presentation of the humor in the film which is all around sloppy. The film features low, low, low-brow humor. The jokes are painfully bad, gross and cringe-inducing. How ever the film, as you can see, does earn 1 star for the performances of Chelsea Handler and Johnny Knoxville. Knoxville bringing a funny performance and Handler brining a nice motherly performance. This review is short but I can't really go into that much detail. I would say skip this wretched piece of dreck unless you are a fan of Handler and Knoxville.