Mes films Quebecois

A good idea, a mangled execution. This is one of the few times that I feel Hollywood would have done a better job than the actual production house.

It was a pretty decent movie. Definitely regional but worth a good few good laughs. Felt somewhat disjointed at parts, I guess I could say that the characters didn't "fit" together, but I guess that's what high school is about.

The music felt completely out of place, and having english songs with a totally american sound might give the movie a broader span, but ultimately, for me, I would have liked some more local tunes to go with the visuals. A Quebec college is a Quebec college, and there's no amount of americanized tunes that could ever turn this into an American Pie kind of flick.

Most notable would be the "dress like a videogame character" party, in which they kinda lost credibility with the Dance Dance Revolution sequences -- if you're gonna do something that appeals to today's youth, you should at least be hardcore about your videogames. Too many scenes of XBOX 360 where nobody pushes any buttons, just movement, and that was crappy too.

Oui, je suis francophone.

I wonder, sometimes, if there are people outside of Quebec who have a fetish for these movies. I mean, some people have heavy obsessions for specifically foreign films, but Quebec comedies have a habit of being very tacky, and this tacky kind of humour is generally very well received locally. But I wonder, I really wonder, who else is watching these. The movie feels like somewhat of a lackluster, but that fact is critical to the movie's sense of ridicule that it must maintain.

Idole Instantanée is a satire on reality TV, specifically, Star Academie, which is the french spinoff of American Idol. It's not just a spoof on these types of shows and it's participants: it's also about the snotty cast and producers, the crazed opinionated fans of the show and the personal lives of the participants.

In this case, all four participants to this singing talent show, are the same actress who embodies four stereotypical characters: the slutty rocker mother of three, the silent and geekish girl from a paranoid family, the always-smiling I'm-not miserable single chick, and the blond bombshell who's controlling mother dreams of being popular via her daughter's fame.

Through this avalanche of theatrical exagerrations, social commentary slowly creeps it's mandatory way in. The ridicule portrayed by the movie is only second to how ridiculous people really get about these shows: the finger is pointed at you.