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HOME > QUIPSOGRAPHY > THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (2014) > PAGE 2 However, this movie quickly forgets that potentially awesome set-up, switching bait to become little more than a tritely fabricated boy-meets-girl hot mess. It's as though the powers-that-be suddenly decided Zac Efron's cougar mom fan base wouldn't like or retweet or love-love this restricted Zac Efron movie to their social media friends and close personal stalkers if Zac Efron's pretty eyes didn't fill up with angst-riddled, dramatic close-up yearning for something. Uh, someone. Preferably woman-ish. With lady boobs. Scenes that would have been hugely funny within the context of Jason consciously sabotaging his budding romance with Ellie materialize instead as plodding contrivances fumbling at crude and bawdy shock humour. Nothing against naughty part gags, but they're out of sync with the rest of what significantly feels like a tepid contemporary ode to far better Brat Pack coming-of-age comedies - complete with a droning, 80s-style soundtrack. I didn't love-love it. Equally aggravating is how this lame effort constantly wastes the time and talent of its cast. They seem woefully under-directed, repeatedly forced to struggle believable personality from consistently empty dialogue. Too bad. I kid about his pretty eyes, but Zac Efron has such a naturally effortless, electrifying on-screen presence. However, that rare star quality is hardly matched by anything provided in Gormican's under cooked final draft. Give your fluffy head a shake, Hollywood. It's time to start giving the pretty eyes man some meatier, A-list roles. The same embarrassing crime is foisted on Efron's immensely talented co-star, Michael B. Jordan, who indie film fans recently acclaimed for his breakthrough lead performance in Fruitvale Station (2013). It makes no sense that these actors are in this nothing movie. Did they find their career managers on kijiji? yikes... Life moves pretty fast, but the closing credits don't come fast enough in this forgettable stinker of brutally weak writing and wasted talent. Easily so much better if it had stayed on its original pre-production course as a player lifestyle farce, That Awkward Moment is barely worth a cheap seat screening, especially if you've already seen the handful of moderate chuckles in the red band trailer. Do yourself an enormous favour and just forget That Awkward Moment ever happened. Reviewed 02/14, © Stephen Bourne, moviequips.ca That Awkward Moment is rated
14A by the Ontario Film Review Board, citing coarse language,
slurs, sexual references, nudity in a non-sexual context, crude
content, scenes that may cause a child brief anxiety, or fear,
embracing and kissing, sexual innuendo, implied sexual activity,
and restrained portrayals of non-graphic violence, and is rated
13+ by la Régie du Cinéma in Québec. REFERENCE: |
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