Assholes

Nothing better than a movie that keeps you guessing.

Believe you me, I can stomach John Waters' films. This film doesn't even come close to those precise, witty social commentary "bad taste" films!

The plot is sort of engaging at first and the acting is "good enough" (surely no worse than Mr. Waters' genius films), but there's really no point to any of it. If there's any social commentary or underlying message, it's buried deeply under a thick stink of "hipper than thou" that seems to cover the filmmakers themselves.

It's all so dreadfully done that it becomes an endurance test after about a half hour. I pushed all the way through to the end just in case a spark of life reared its head. It never did.

The whole thing felt like it was made by some super privileged rich New Yorkers; the kind I've had experience working with before. They all roll over the common people regularly because they have money and feel that they know everything about the world. There's a scene where the two characters are well-past loaded on drugs and they're out in the streets just being jerks to everyone they meet. It felt improvised to me, and if true, that scene drives my point home: Rich white people rudely pushing average people out of the way to make their ever-so-hip and "edgy" film. All others be damned.

It also felt like someone watched too many Harmony Korine films and thought they "could do that, too!" They can't.

I can do without that kind of pretentious clownery in my films, thank you. Unless they are breaking new ground and have a legit social message to relay to the people. This film failed on all fronts. A marvel to behold on some level, I suppose. But why even bother?

As another review said, it's quite rare such experiments on the rather rear end of the movie spectrum) get produced, so thumbs up (not literally up theirs) for this, also as the (brave) actors are really good (I mean come on, how on earth would you prepare for such characters/roles?) Generally more hilarious and entertaining than gross I found; also the impro street scenes with members of the public presumably not knowing what's going on are quite funny.. All in all an interesting mix of many genres. And even involving a summoned Bowel-Demon - lol.

Critic's Metascore: 17!! Need I say more?

First off: Not for everone. But if you like totally unique, hilarious, bizarre, chaotic, and unhinged indies, then this might be right up your... alley. I live for movies like this, where there are no rules, and obviously no one to answer to. The two lead characters in this do such a great job, as popper-crazy, wasted addicts (with some serious VD). Their performances are outrageous and uninhibited, and they even work in some guerilla filmmaking in the middle of Times Square. Hilarious! I want to see these two chracters in another movie, at their highest!

Adah's (Betsey Brown) sex buddy/boyfriend/future husband Aaron (Jack Dunphy) lives with her brother (and future pompous, indiscretionary psychoanalyst), Adam (Peter Vack). Adah has gone straight, but her brother peer pressures her into hits off his bong... and contracts what has to be the most disgusting case of herpes put on film. She promptly passes this along to Aaron, and down the rabbit hole they go. Their behavior in front of their mortified parents is priceless. Love the death metal music cues. That's really all I can tell you, because this movie is full of surprises.

If you're into unpredictable, obnoxious, gross, yet hilarious comedies that have no intention of playing by the rules, A-holes is a solid pick. Actually, more punk rock than anything I've seen in a long time.

I guess I'll be one of those that did like this movie. I'm not going to pretend it was the best movie ever but I did enjoy it. I was expecting a comedy and that's exactly what I got. Okay it might not be the humor everybody enjoys, poop and buttholes are a bit childish, but nevertheless the irony and the "dark" humor made me laugh more than once. The cast was actually much better than I thought it would be, good actors with a silly but delicate subject.