Can a movie be soul crushingly bad and entertaining at the same time? Fun Size answers that question with a big, fat yes. While being poorly made, badly written, totally immature and amazingly stupid...this newest film from the Nickelodeon cannon actually has a certain charm of its own. Sure-it is not even up to the standards of Disney's flop Prom but it does provide a nostalgia factor. That is to say it reminds both the adults and kids in the audience of an adventure they have had before.
The film stars Victoria Justice as Wren-a sweet, innocent high school student. Wren is friends with April (Jane Levy)-a not so sweet, not so innocent high school student. One night while Wren is trying to go to a party-her mom (Chelsea Handler) dumps Wren's little brother Albert (Jackson Nicoll) on her. Needless to say-Wren loses him. She then has to have nerdy guys Roosevelt (Thomas Mann) and Peng (Osric Chau) help her.
The film is stupid and depressing for many reasons. For one-Levy-a major talent on the hit ABC show "Suburgatory" is awful here. Her character is totally unlikable and you wonder why Wren wastes her time with April. Second-Albert is the most impish child ever put on film. Seriously-he makes Damien and Emily Rose look like angels by comparison. Therefore-we do not care what happens to him. Third-the lack of maturity comes in spades here and shows that the writers had no intentions of making any sort of a "good" film. Fourth-the subplot involving the mom feeling left out at a party she goes to with her 26 year old boyfriend (Josh Pence) is just a time waster. Finally-a subplot involving a convenient store clerk (Thomas Middleditch) and a dummy of a boyfriend (Johnny Knoxville) is just played for a few cheap laughs. Admittedly-Middleditch and Knoxville successfully get those cheap laughs. However-the film does earn a bit of respect for making me giggle a couple of times and keeping me entertained. I think it is because the film is so bad that I was so entertained. I was laughing at it without really laughing. Knoxville was not credited for his role and if I were to take a stab I would say that he did not want his name on the film because he was ashamed to be in it. If you are reading this, Johhny-trust me, I completely understand.
Fun Size does provide some entertainment value. However, this value is at the expense of talented people embarrassing themselves. Handler is the only one in the cast I actually think is untalented and should be in this film. As for the rest of the cast-fire your agents.
(1 out of 5 Stars, The film is rated PG-13 for crude and suggestive material, partying and language)
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