I decided to watch this for the Frank Iero cameo, but wound up being more surprised and delighted to find that Tay Zonday, aka The Chocolate Rain Guy, also had a cameo role in here! Weirdly enough, the guy who played Zeke, aka The Crème Brûlée Guy, in the High School Musical movies was in here as well in a supporting role.
Overall this is a supremely odd, bottom-of-the-DVD-bargain-bin sort of flick, featuring Christian youth group skit-level acting, Teen Mom-style editing, an over-investment in social media tie-ins, and a random, vaguely Christmas-flavored plot. Neither the story nor script are any good, and the whole thing looks like it was filmed on a budget of maybe $500, maximum.
The best thing it has going for it is this silly little in-universe TV package that’s essentially a spoof of VH1’s “I Love The …” series, where a cast of celebrity talking heads come on and reminisce over select moments in pop culture through the decades. The segment they created for this movie is devoted to a fictional female-fronted emo band called Autumn In August, who according to the special, toured with the likes of My Chemical Romance and Andrew W.K. in 2007. Their hit single, “P.S. Whatever” honest to god had all the core pieces of a solid emo smash, with lyrics like, “you signed your name in your own blood.”
The rest of the movie after that was pretty rough, and I don’t see myself ever revisiting it in the future, but I can’t lie and say it didn’t do a halfway decent job of amusing me for an hour and a half! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I decided to watch this for the Frank Iero cameo, but wound up being more surprised and delighted to find that Tay Zonday, aka The Chocolate Rain Guy, also had a cameo role in here! Weirdly enough, the guy who played Zeke, aka The Crème Brûlée Guy, in the High School Musical movies was in here as well in a supporting role.
Overall this is a supremely odd, bottom-of-the-DVD-bargain-bin sort of flick, featuring Christian youth group skit-level acting, Teen Mom-style editing, an over-investment in social media tie-ins, and a random, vaguely Christmas-flavored plot. Neither the story nor script are any good, and the whole thing looks like it was filmed on a budget of maybe $500, maximum.
The best thing it has going for it is this silly little in-universe TV package that’s essentially a spoof of VH1’s “I Love The …” series, where a cast of celebrity talking heads come on and reminisce over select moments in pop culture through the decades. The segment they created for this movie is devoted to a fictional female-fronted emo band called Autumn In August, who according to the special, toured with the likes of My Chemical Romance and Andrew W.K. in 2007. Their hit single, “P.S. Whatever” honest to god had all the core pieces of a solid emo smash, with lyrics like, “you signed your name in your own blood.”
The rest of the movie after that was pretty rough, and I don’t see myself ever revisiting it in the future, but I can’t lie and say it didn’t do a halfway decent job of amusing me for an hour and a half! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
