Word: teenpix
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trend has been building for a few years, since Scream (1996) indicated that cheesy teenpix could cross the $100 million hurdle. Last summer's American Pie and The Blair Witch Project accelerated the no-star momentum. The town's easiest profits come from cheap movies with low aspirations and performers who look as if they'd just been kidnapped from the junior prom. Meanwhile, a platinum-card holder like Jim Carrey stumbles slightly with Me, Myself & Irene ($89 million) and pratfalls with Man on the Moon ($35 million). Last August, Bruce Willis rode a big winner in The Sixth Sense...
...thing that's clear from the glut of contemporary teenpix is that a lot of young talent is being wasted in gonadal junk. If only these kids could find a smart script and a director who knew how to harness their coltish appeal, they might quickly turn promise into achievement. As it happens, the wait wasn't all that long. Here is a picture that has wit, a hairpin-turn narrative, high pizazz and ensemble star quality. Ready...
...employ them--and, it seems, quillions of low-budget movies to exploit their radiance and here-today star quality. Next week brings Halloween: H20, featuring Dawson's regular Michelle Williams. Then the college comedy Dead Man on Campus, with Alyson Hannigan of TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The teenpix parade marches into the fall by the dozens, including Varsity Blues (with Dawson's James Van Der Beek) and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Party of Five's Jennifer Love Hewitt...
...young actor in the early '80s there was plenty of roles, but mostly in the tits-and-zits teenpix that emulated Porky's. Cruise did time in a dim comedy, Losin' It (1982), about some lads who visit Tijuana to mislay their virginity; he played the sensitive one. From its plot synopsis, Risky Business (1983) promised more of the lame same. An affluent high school senior has an affair with a hooker (Rebecca de Mornay), dunks the family Porsche in Lake Michigan, turns his house into a brothel and still gets into Princeton. Sounds like the Reagan era in miniature...
...dialogue is all song cues; Pitchford's songs are standard technopop, except for a comic showstopper, called Life Ain't Worth Livin' (When You're Dead), that the suicidal teens of Heathers might take to heart. Otherwise, Sing is strictly Gold Diggers turned to brass. In the latest teenpix class portrait, it's a dropout...