Remember The Daze

A scattershot movie if there ever was one but yet still has some nice comic touches and memorable characters. Not that you would want to hang out with all of these memorable characters. There was a movie a few years ago that my friends liked more than me called Rules Of Attraction. I just thought the characters were so unlikeable that it turned me off of the movie. But one thing it had was its cast of up and coming actors which some went on to bigger things (Jessica Biel, Jay Baruchel, Clifton Collins Jr., Kate Bosworth) while others just didn't have the staying power (James Van Der Beek, Shannon Sossamon, Kip Pardue) for whatever reasons. This movie reminds me of that movie where the cast is full of actors that you've seen or will see in the next year or so such as Amber Heard, Alexa Vega, Leighton Meester, Christopher Marquette, and Brie Larson. In fact Brie Larson plays one of my favorite characters Angie who is Julia's (Amber Heard) sister. She's hilariously mean to everybody who comes into her room except her friends, who one of them happens to be Holly (Alexa Vega). My other favorite character is Julia's best friend Stacey Cherry (!) played to absolute perfection by Marnette Patterson. All the characters have just completed their last day of high school for the year and the older girls will be seniors next year while Angie's friends are now freshmans and will be sophomores. They're all looking to party as soon as possible and Stacey is always asking if there's any pot or she just wants to get "totally wasted". The way she says this in her stereotypical cheerleader perky voice is one of the highlights of the movie. She comes across as an airhead but deep down I think there's somebody else within her waiting to come out. As I said the whole premise of the movie is kids from freshman to seniors trying to party, hook up and get obliterated as soon as they can and the movie shows the day and its after effects of all these actions and decisions that go down. Another memorable scene is when Tori and her friend are babysitting and they proceed to take shrooms. Like I said the characters in this movie are interested in partying no matter what they're doing. In fact the characters deserve 4 stars but the movie itself can only muster 3 1/2 stars. Along with a solid music soundtrack featuring a lot of alternative bands this movie might be worth your time if the characters don't make you crazy!