(rated R, 90 mins.)
Or better titled “I heard….,” with an ensemble cast of today’s hottest young stars James Marsden (Disturbing Behavior), Lena Headey (Jungle Book) and Norman Reedus (8 mm) in not so hot of a movie, as three roommates looking for a way to spice up their assigned school thesis that “news and entertainment are one in the same”.One night at their local bar scene, they decide to start a rumor involving Joshua Jackson (TV’s Dawson Creek) that leads to more nightmares and compound lying then they ever imagined. Or, as Marsden says “We do whatever we do then gossip about it.” There’s little sympathy for these spoiled, drunken, twisted characters who spend more time in and out of each other’s sheets than between their textbooks.
Or better titled “I heard….,” with an ensemble cast of today’s hottest young stars James Marsden (Disturbing Behavior), Lena Headey (Jungle Book) and Norman Reedus (8 mm) in not so hot of a movie, as three roommates looking for a way to spice up their assigned school thesis that “news and entertainment are one in the same”.One night at their local bar scene, they decide to start a rumor involving Joshua Jackson (TV’s Dawson Creek) that leads to more nightmares and compound lying then they ever imagined. Or, as Marsden says “We do whatever we do then gossip about it.” There’s little sympathy for these spoiled, drunken, twisted characters who spend more time in and out of each other’s sheets than between their textbooks.
As the story unfolds there are growing belly laughs, not because the scenes are funny but because they are ridiculous right to the ending. And, every scene has a lot of breaking. Breaking picture frames. Breaking martini glasses. Breaking nic nacs. Anything that shatters. The only salvation is James Marsden who plays the character Derek, that Headey refers to as “what women want” and is exactly that. The desirable bad boy.