Produced by Todd Phillips, the director of "The Hangover" (2009), "Project X" is a comedy about a group of three anonymous high school best friends determined to throw the craziest party ever. Thomas (Thomas Mann) is turning 17, and his friends (Oliver Cooper and Jonathan Daniel Brown) are throwing a birthday party at his house because Thomas'sparents are going away for the weekend. As word spreads, however, the size of the party gets completely out of control. The film documents the entire night from the perspective of an attendant's digital camera. Anisha Mohin
Directed by: Nima NourizadehWith: Mann, Brown, Cooper, DaxFlame and Brady Hender88 minutesRated R
"Project X" presents yet another portrait of the tried-and-true formula: geeky high school kid + ridiculous party = popularity that would make the Kardashians jealous. It's not groundbreaking, but it's not entirely unwatchable, either. Nourizadeh puts three newcomers in the lead roles, which aids in the film's entertainment value and the believability that the whole party was captured on film by one of the hooligans. If you missed out on weekend festivities yourself, perhaps you could live vicariously through "Project X."
Kate Sullivan
This was the party every teenager might dream of and every parent has a nightmare of. There's not a whole lot of regret from the geeky teenage boys or emphasis placed on the gravity of the repercussions of their experiment gone wrong. It's reckless and sleazy in both content and production, but undoubtedly interesting to watch. Jackie Wei
If you made a list of the 10 most ridiculous things you could think of, I guarantee they all happened in the first third of "Project X." The film's humor derives from its absurdity, including one memorable scene in which a midget jumps out of an oven and punches numerous people in the crotch. If we needed to select this generation's "Animal House" (1978), "Project X" would be a good contender. Then again, I'm not sure any other movie could out-ridiculous this one. Varun Bhuchar
