[Culkin's] performance in Party Monster is so embarrassing one doesn't know where to look. (Well, perhaps at the exit.)
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09/05/03
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
Alig is played by Macaulay Culkin, in his first movie since Richie Rich (1994), and it is a fearless performance as a person so shallow, narcissistic and amoral that eventually even his friends simply stare at him in disbelief.
09/05/03
Top Critic'Party Monster' is so concerned with flash and style that it forgets to provide anything of substance to chew on and even the flash and style isn’t anything we haven’t seen before.
09/04/03
A bold and engrossing drama.
09/04/03
Top Critic[Culkin and Green's] assortment of vocal tics, nervous laughs and over-the-top 'nancy-ness' often are very funny and appropriately giddy.
09/04/03
The plot is sordid and predictable -- indiscriminate nightclubbing leads to escalating drugs, promiscuity, and violence.
09/04/03
Directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (who also directed the marginally better 1998 documentary of the same name, on the same subject) are too enamored of the tawdry tale to actually say anything with or about it.
09/04/03
In the end you don't believe what you're watching, and you don't care.
09/04/03
The film is playful and never dares take itself too seriously, and neither do the characters.
09/03/03
Top CriticThe film is ultimately more a C.A.K.E. partyer's failed fetish object than a keg partyer's new Sid and Nancy.
09/02/03
The actions of the glammy main characters become boorish and tedious long before the party's over.
08/29/03
The worst comedy since Death to Smoochy.
08/27/03
Call it what you will, a morality tale, a cautionary fable, one walks away with a sense of catharsis
08/25/03
One is left wondering, whose story is this, anyway?
04/27/03
Culkin acquitting himself all well and good, its going to be Seth Green that commands that transition spotlight into the next phase of his career.
02/07/03
A colorful, lurid and ultimately so-what look at some rather obnoxious personalities careening down their little road to ruin.
02/06/03
Top CriticIt's a fun movie, for the most part. Its only trouble is that it doesn't add up to as much as it thinks it does.
02/01/03
Most will be turned off by the filmmakers' fatal attraction to the very excesses over which they supposedly are shaking their heads.
01/30/03
Top Critic[A] muddled, sometimes touching movie.
12/10/02
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