Stop me when you haven’t heard this:
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- Hot girl identifies herself as nerd
- Hot unattainable guy likes her
- Nerd guy/boy-next-door/childhood-friend also likes her
- Girlfriend is blind to charms of nerd guy
- Big party will reveal all truths
- Girl has issues getting to party
- Giant mechanical chicken collapses on top of family car, gyrates as if having sex with it
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I added the last part to see if you were paying attention. Pretty sure that doesn’t happen in every film. Then again, I never did see The Russia House or A Passage to India. There could easily have been giant metal poultry dryhumping a vehicle in either of those films.
Wren (Victoria Justice) likes a guy but thinks he’s too good for her and her friend says he is but then he’s there and he isn’t and he invites he to a party and her friend says to go and she says yeah and then she has to babysit her brother who is totally goofy and so she can’t go but she gets an idea and then she loses her brother and the nerd shows up to help her find …. Yawn. OMG, this movie plays like bad high school gossip. I have a headache just writing that. Bleah.
Look, this wasn’t a total loss. You got your mechanical chicken. You got an indescribably hard-to-describably weird eight-year-
old. He doesn’t talk; he dresses as one-armed spider-man; he likes to cut fabric out of his sister’s clothes and sew the shards into demented hand puppets. Then there’s the nerd (Thomas Mann, fresh off Project X where he played … a high school nerd). As with all movie nerds, he sucks at “the moment” and he has one early on when he confronts the babe dressed as Dorothy of Oz in a haunted house. Stressed for conversation, he opts, “I like how you don’t feel the need to dress sexy on Halloween like other girls.” She leaves. His nerd friend, dressed as Aaron Burr no less, shakes his head, and then the camera pans to a ghoul in the corner. Up to this moment, we weren’t sure if this guy was live or decoration. Not until he, too, frowns and shakes his head. Ok, you got me, Fun Size. There’s a few laughs here.
I will always have a thing for aptly named film. And not unlike a miniature Halloween treat, Fun Size offers half the run-time, half the laughs, half the drama, half the romance, half the excitement and half the rating of a quality film. So by all means, rent Fun for half the price, invite your midget neighbor with his dachshund and waste half an evening some time in the partial future. It will be semi-very.
The hot girl likes to think she’s a nerd
A recycled premise most absurd
There ain’t much here
But give a loud cheer
For the car humped by large robot bird
Rated PG-13, 86 Minutes
D: Josh Schwartz
W: Max Werner
Genre: Hot girl and nerd
Type of person most likely to enjoy this film: Nerd
Type of person least likely to enjoy this film: Hot girl
