If April Fool's Day 1986 were fed through a garbage disposable...the end result would be this movie. Was this really intended as a remake of the nineteen eighty-six version? If it was you would never know it. The entire story has changed, and nothing of the original remains, at least nothing of any note.
The original aside, we have as usual every stereotype imaginable presented to us. In stereotypical scenarios that aren't even done well. Spoiled rich kids kill the "good" rich girl and the fallout destroys their lives...except nothing is destroyed and nothing in their lives really changes at all. Never fear though because the rest of the movie is full of many senseless scenes and pointless dialog. The courtroom sentencing, the ludicrous attempt at a five minute blurb from headline news, the stop to use a payphone in a horrible, rundown neighborhood by the rich kids...and nothing happens, and so on. As the "movie" drudges forward, the film makers attempt to make us laugh, and fail. They attempt to scare us, and fail. They even attempt to be politically correct at some points and manage to fail at it. Thats a new one on me.
Bad story, bad plot, bad execution and a bad script make for one bad movie. One thing I won't trash is the acting. Why? Yes, it's totally over the top but I have no doubt that "over the top" is how the actors and actresses were told to play it. Clearly the filmmakers were trying to have a "nash your teeth for the paparazzi" type feeling to the characters. Problem of course is that it's done to the point of making you nauseous. If it wasn't the directors intent, or the writers, I'm sure someone would have put a stop to it.
As it stands I think it's clear the writers, producers and director are all entirely at fault here. I think they might have read the synopsis for the original April Fool's Day here at IMDb and then said "screw it, we'll make it up as we go along". It's clear that no matter what, there was no desire to, and no intention of, doing the original movie justice...in fact I think they wanted to insult it.
I know, your thinking "there must be something good about this movie". Well, your right. There is one good thing about it. It ends.
The original aside, we have as usual every stereotype imaginable presented to us. In stereotypical scenarios that aren't even done well. Spoiled rich kids kill the "good" rich girl and the fallout destroys their lives...except nothing is destroyed and nothing in their lives really changes at all. Never fear though because the rest of the movie is full of many senseless scenes and pointless dialog. The courtroom sentencing, the ludicrous attempt at a five minute blurb from headline news, the stop to use a payphone in a horrible, rundown neighborhood by the rich kids...and nothing happens, and so on. As the "movie" drudges forward, the film makers attempt to make us laugh, and fail. They attempt to scare us, and fail. They even attempt to be politically correct at some points and manage to fail at it. Thats a new one on me.
Bad story, bad plot, bad execution and a bad script make for one bad movie. One thing I won't trash is the acting. Why? Yes, it's totally over the top but I have no doubt that "over the top" is how the actors and actresses were told to play it. Clearly the filmmakers were trying to have a "nash your teeth for the paparazzi" type feeling to the characters. Problem of course is that it's done to the point of making you nauseous. If it wasn't the directors intent, or the writers, I'm sure someone would have put a stop to it.
As it stands I think it's clear the writers, producers and director are all entirely at fault here. I think they might have read the synopsis for the original April Fool's Day here at IMDb and then said "screw it, we'll make it up as we go along". It's clear that no matter what, there was no desire to, and no intention of, doing the original movie justice...in fact I think they wanted to insult it.
I know, your thinking "there must be something good about this movie". Well, your right. There is one good thing about it. It ends.