Best Night Ever
- Fundamentals, reception.
- American live action feature length film, 2013, rated R, 90 minutes.
- IMDB: 3.6/10.0 from 812 audience ratings.
- Rotten Tomatoes: 0% on the meter; 32% liked it from 435 audience ratings.
- Written and directed by: Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer.
- Starring: Desiree Hall as Claire, Eddie Ritchard as Zoe, Samantha Colburn as Leslie, Crista Flanagan as Janet, plus a host of others.
- Setup and Plot
- Claire goes to Las Vegas for a bachelorette night before she gets married. She is accompanied by her sister Leslie and friends Zoe and Janet. Zoe is Claire's best friend, and does most of the filming using a hand-held camera. Janet is the rude and barbaric friend.
- The trip starts out somewhat normally, but the plans crash when Zoe discovers that her credit cards have been stopped, and her reservations have been cancelled. The evening gets worse after that. They get robbed at gunpoint by a valet; they lose money, identification, shoes, engagement ring, and so on.
- After some binge drinking, they steal a car, kidnap the wrong valet to get the engagement ring back, and get screwed over in a drug deal. They manage to elude the police. They use drugs and go to a bachelor party after being mistaken for hookers.
- By some magic, the quartet fails to get arrested or be killed for the multiple felonies they commit.
- Conclusions
- One line summary: Zero laughs, zero chuckles, zero smiles; derivative feel-bad comedy.
- One star of five. Two black holes for screenplay and acting.
- Scores
- Cinematography: 2/10 Hand-held.
- Sound: 2/10 Terrible leveling. During one interval, the editor inserted sub-titles because the words were indecipherable versus the background noise.
- Acting: 0/10
- Screenplay: 0/10 Completely derivative. If you have seen a Hangover film, or Bridesmaids, then you have pretty much seen the content of this one.
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