Project X (2012)

Director: Nima Nourizadeh
Actors: Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper and Jonathan Daniel Brown

This is film is a great joy to watch. It leaves you feeling warm, glad, life affirming and a reminder of those late teenage years.
The main character Thomas is turning 17. His parents are going away for the weekend. His two friends decide it is time for a party to remember. They certainly achieve their goal with gusto. Based on true events in Pasadena, USA. The three friends are a joy to watch. They are not the most popular kids in high school and leaning towards the nerdy side. With the use of social media, sms's and even a phone in to a radio station the word is out.
They go to the local drug dealer and buy some weed and on the way out steals a garden gnome which it later turns out is full of a massive stash of ecstasy pills.
The friends even go around informing the neighbours about the plans for a small birthday soiree. The dj is in place, two guys as security. The inside of the house is off limits. So far so good.
Guests start to arrive in droves until the party swells to over a 1000. Thomas initially struggles to have a good time because he worries about the amount of people coming and the house. During the film it gets more and more out of hand.
There is a very funny scene with a very small dwarf who gets put inside the owen. Needless to say he is furious when finally released and start punching guys in the more private parts.
As an epilogue after the riot police have dispersed of the revellers there is a wonderful scene where Thomas and his father looks at the utter destruction. With mixed emotions the father is actually quite proud that his son actually managed to be so popular.

This film is manic and really enjoyable. Not much of deep thoughts but a wonderful sense of innocence, joy, friends and the way teenagers develops. Teenage angst, wanting to be popular and having a good time. It leaves you warm and happy. It has some great scenes of how things just gets so out of hand you can not stop it. The more destruction the more obvious that the only solution is just to let completely go and make the most of it. The three friends are good actors. This cinema experience have the possibility to become a classic teenage high school film of the 2010's as Ferris Bueller day off was for the 1980's.

Rating: 3.7 of 5