Sweets and misfortunes on Halloween Eve High schooler Irene recently lost her father and now her already crazy family is in complete chaos. Her mother is dating a young and stupid guy, and the younger brother Albert, in addition to being constantly silent, also behaves like an asshole and does everything he wants. She is invited to a Halloween party by one of the prettiest and most desirable guys in school, which Irene and her best friend April certainly agree to. But these plans again spoil the family, because the mother is going to go with her admirer to the party and since she will be gone all night, someone will have to look after the capricious little tomboy. But even in this scenario, Irene is not discouraged, as he wants to put his brother to bed after a hike for sweets and calmly go to fulfill his plans. Naturally, everything goes awry and restless Albert escapes somewhere, so now the poor heroine will have to hang out with local nerds, one of whom has long been in love with her and look for a little fugitive dressed in a Spider-Man costume with one hand. This is going to be a crazy night.
After listing the companies responsible for creating this tape, it immediately becomes quite clear that this is the brainchild of a television company that specializes in cartoons and teenage comedies. It is within the framework of the latter that “Shorty” is filmed, where the creators make desperate attempts to get out of the bosom of templates and cliches of youth entertainment projects, but it turns out that they have very bad. In fact, this tape is one big stamp, on which the entire narrative is built. The entire allegedly original storyline can be predicted even before the start of viewing, but if you do not take this into account, but only calmly watch the madness happening on the screen, then this is not able to correct the general primitive picture. In general, almost all actions cause on the face not an emotional smile, but sincere disappointment and complete misunderstanding of the local humor.
In general, “Shorty” pretty disappointing and if not for the originally stated genre and some worthwhile episodes, then there would be absolutely nothing to grab. Nevertheless, even in the pool of flat and moronic jokes from the main characters and the rest of the personalities attached to them, there is a place quite tolerable and sometimes even truly funny gags. One of these is the scene in the club, where the little fat man incendiary dances to the famous song of Mark Wahlberg “Good vibrations” and eclipses all the other dance floor members. By the way, despite this positive point, otherwise harmful and ill-mannered short man frantically strained and caused only feelings of anger. Personally, I wanted to take a belt and give this schmuck a good bang, so that he learned to behave like a deranged idiot. This desire only intensified during the kind of funny ending, in which the plump boy appears in an even more unfavorable light, causing another portion of contempt in his address.
The rest of the characters also can not boast of something worthy. The main character is quite typical and does not differ from many of its kind. This applies to her secret admirer, who has no father, but there are two mothers at once, talking to their beloved son in ancient languages and embroidering a portrait of the current President of America on a large scale. Somehow, a friend who loves cats and complains of pain between her legs after hair removal tries to stand out. In general, this attractive girl was the main source of vulgarity and debauchery, which seems to be in such a teenage comedy, oriented primarily for very young schoolchildren, there should not be. Despite all this, there are scenes with chest touching and asthma attacks in a cat named Tolstoy, who does not tolerate perfume or cosmetics. To this motley company, you can also add a loser seller who is not distinguished by special rationalism and ingenuity, because of which he constantly gets into all sorts of stupid and not at all funny stories.
Did not correct the general situation and the cast, which has several already lit names. But first it is worth talking about Victoria Justice, which looks like a hybrid of Selena Gomez and Isla Fisher. Honestly, when I first met her character, these two actresses immediately surfaced in my thoughts. But if Victoria has an unusual appearance, then I cannot say this about her acting talents. Against her background, Jane Levy looked very great, who proved herself from the best side after the acclaimed remake of the Evil Dead. After the image in that blood bath, to look for trying to be a cool "pussy" is somehow unusual. Nevertheless, she played more or less decently and at least remembered more than his colleagues. Not surprised and Thomas Mann , and passed with a sour mine for an hour and a half. I tried to somehow stand out Johnny Knoxville, although the crazy characters in his performance have already become so boring that once again seeing him in such a role I want to exhale outrageously.
As a result, “Shorty” turned out to be a rather empty and one-sided youth comedy, designed rather for a very children’s audience, which can still laugh at the authors’ attempts to laugh on the topic of tits and everything like that. The movie is absolutely passable, but still for a single viewing is quite suitable, but children should definitely not show it. My assessment of what I saw was as follows:
5 out of 10