We begin the film not knowing what brought Michael and James together. We end, after a too-long 98 minutes, precisely the same way.
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11/14/03
Party Monster (2003)
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Reviews Counted:73
Fresh:19
Rotten:54
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: The lurid display of camp soon turns tedious.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: With PARTY MONSTER, directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE) rework their 1999 shockumentary into a feature film. Based on the book by James St. James, PARTY MONSTER tells... [More]
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Wilson Cruz, Chloe Sevigny
Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Reviews for Party Monster
"... equal parts freakish fashion show and tawdry melodrama of the rise and fall of a superficial celebrity."
11/13/03
As a human document 'Party Monster' is pretty much a disaster...shapeless and sloppy.
11/10/03
Like Alig, Party Monster is a colorful mess, all style and substances and little else.
11/09/03
In the end, for all the vibrancy, there's not much there there. Maybe that's the point, but I doubt it.
11/07/03
It doesn't live up to the wild times it portrays - the only thing I got from this movie was an idea for a really scary Halloween outfit.
11/07/03
You haven't seen this many outrageous costumes since the Halloween parade on Cedar Springs.
11/06/03
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10/28/03
...like the majority of flicks that prominently feature drug use, the whole thing begins to sink into darkness and finally just turns into an unpleasant experience.
10/25/03
There are many ways of depicting an innocent's descent into hell, but the camp approach is surely the least advisable.
10/24/03
A tone deaf picture that fails to be either darkly funny or intelligently consequential.
10/24/03
The story is boring and tragic, but never so tragic that it stops being boring.
10/24/03
Gracelessly executed, it throws out mock documentary, fantasy sequences and rapid montages, but still drags on woefully, and looks like it was soaked in dirty water.
10/24/03
An unpleasant, redundant drama that features perceptive acting from Green.
10/24/03
Hedonism deserves better representation.
10/23/03
It's a cinematic party, one long, strung-out bash that starts out as a novelty and turns into something resembling forced fun before morphing into a bummer.
10/17/03
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10/17/03
Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, who wrote and directed, think the way to make a movie about shallow, aimless lives descending into chaos is for the movie itself to be shallow, aimless, and to descend into chaos.
10/13/03
As wasteful an example of indie-picture indulgence and incompetence as you're likely to find.
10/10/03
There is nothing remotely affecting about Party Monster.
10/10/03
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