Bachelor Party Vegas (2006) (V)

User Rating:

4.4/10   

Director:

Eric Bernt

Writer (WGA):

Eric Bernt (written by)

Release Date:

25 April 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy

Tagline:

This is one weekend they will never forget!

Plot:

Five friends road trip to Las Vegas for a bachelor party.

Plot Keywords:

Showgirl | Place Name In Title | City Name In Title | Panties | Female Nudity

Cast

Kal Penn	...	Z-Bob
Jonathan Bennett	...	Nathan
Donald Faison	...	Ash
Charlie Talbert	...	Johnny C. MacElroy (as Charlie Spiller)
Aaron Himelstein	...	Eli
Vincent Pastore	...	Carmine / Mr. Kidd
Chuck Liddell	...	The Iceman
Marisa Petroro	...	The Showgirl
Lin Shaye	...	Cassandra
Graham Beckel	...	Officer Stone
Tim Poster	...	Casino Owner
Diane Klimaszewski	...	Chrissy
Elaine Klimaszewski	...	Missy
Brent Briscoe	...	Big Gut Mel
Jaime Pressly	...	Herself

Also Known As:

Vegas Baby (Australia) (DVD title) (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong sexual content and humor including dialogue, nudity, language and some drug use.

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

USA:R | Australia:MA | Netherlands:12

Filming Locations:

Dos Carlos Stages - 1360 E. 6th Street, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Insomnia Entertainment

Trivia:

Filmed in 16 days.

Quotes:

Cassandra: [Whilst pole dancing] I'm Cassandra. I also teach preschool.

Soundtrack:

Face the Pain

May not even be able to please its target audience!!!!

Rated R for strong sexual content and humor including dialogue, nudity, language and some drug use.

While this rating and the DVD cover of this movie may make the so called lovers of cinema , wriggle their noses, ITS EXACTLY THE KIND OF RATING I LIKE MY MOVIES TO HAVE.

So trust me when I say, I AM THE TARGET AUDIENCE FOR SUCH FILMS.

That being said I'm not a big fan of direct to DVD movies, if the movie isn't good enough to see in the theaters there's no reason it should be good enough to see on the TV.

But still THIS MOVIE HAD ALL THE CHARACTERISTICS I LIKE IN A COMEDY MOVIE AND KAL PENN. So I rented this movie but automatically lowered my expectations.

The movie started with promise with a hilarious joke on the racist nature of airport security, immediately the Multi-cultural nature of the cast struck me A black, A nerd, A fat guy , A Normal White Guy in Love, an Indian.......... no rational mind can accept this scenario and its been clearly done to increase the range of the audience as much as possible.

The movie had crude jokes, nudity, hot chicks, ugly chicks , fat chicks, Gay jokes but somehow I was hardly laughing, I even remember most of the jokes but I seem to recall laughing only for a couple of them namely the Airport Security one, the Porn Set, the hotel entry etc.

THIS IS A PERFECT CASE OF GREAT JOKES GONE WRONG. We all know a jokes is not all about its content but on its execution and this movie has clearly gone wrong there.

The background score was in fact quite good WHEN IT WAS USED, this movie completely forgot that sound effects can be used in films.The opening sequence was a great example of this.

The acting was in fact very good, the characters may have been stereotypical but the actors displayed their acting talents in the limited premise that was given to them. For me the winner was the nerdy guy who would do the most nerdiest things possible in all situations.

Script writing and direction are never fortes of such films and were not worth mentioning here either.

Towards the end the movie tried to be something its not, IN THE MOST PREDICTABLE MANNER POSSIBLE and it was the looser for it. For a moment this movie felt like a Chick Flick.

The only thing nagging me was that I saw the movie with the wrong company, and MAYBE ON A BETTER DAY THIS MOVIE COULD HAVE MADE ME LAUGH, given the potential of the jokes. But even then being a lover of such films this should have been a mere triviality.

All in all a ordinary film which wasted its potential and failed in execution. THERE IS A CHANCE THAT THIS MOVIE MAY MAKE YOU LAUGH (more than a a couple of times) BUT THE CHANCES ARE LOW.

Worth a miss.!!!

+s great jokes, good acting, a few well executed scenes

+/-s may be able to make you laugh if you like such movies (a gamble)

-s bad execution, tries to be what is not (unsuccessfully and predictably), no sound effects.

total 4.5/10 (factoring in Made for DVD and bad company)