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• Everett J

  
  I love a good R rated comedy about high schoolers/college kids who do crazy stuff. "21 and Over" doesn't reinvent the wheel, but it offers a very funny and entertaining entrant into the genre. Jeff Chang is a straight A student about to turn 21. His best friends from… More
  I love a good R rated comedy about high schoolers/college kids who do crazy stuff. "21 and Over" doesn't reinvent the wheel, but it offers a very funny and entertaining entrant into the genre. Jeff Chang is a straight A student about to turn 21. His best friends from high school, Casey and Miller, surprise him and take him out for a wild night. Things get wild, crazy, and pretty darn hilarious. At 90 minutes long, the movie never over stays it's welcome and keeps it going at a good pace. Emily actually stayed awake through it, and thats usually a good sign, since she falls asleep or shows no interest in anything:-p If you like movies like "Road Trip" or "Sorority Boys", then this is right in your wheelhouse. If not, then this isn't for you, you'll just end up being offended.

• Directors C

  
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• KJ P

  
  "21 and Over" tries way too hard to up the stakes, becoming more and more like "The Hangover" as it progresses. Honestly, it felt like I was watching the alternate version of The Hangover, because instead of figuring out what happened the morning after, it follows… More
  "21 and Over" tries way too hard to up the stakes, becoming more and more like "The Hangover" as it progresses. Honestly, it felt like I was watching the alternate version of The Hangover, because instead of figuring out what happened the morning after, it follows them through the night, trying to get their best friend home on his 21st birthday. It steals jokes from every other comedy in the world, it's unfunny, stupid, preposterous, and it never really knows if it's actually a film or not. This would work as a 15-minute short film, because at about that time in the film, it could end, but things just start happening to drag out the run time. This is a very bad comedy that made me laugh about 2 times. I've seen worse films, but the direction here seems too easy, and the acting is very uninspired. "21 and Over" is a mess!

• Christopher H

  
  A trashy and poorly-stitched-together rip-off of films such as "The Hangover" (this time with a younger cast), "Harold and Kumar", and "Weekend at Bernies". The characters are either completely unlikable jerks or boringly one-dimensional and the… More
  A trashy and poorly-stitched-together rip-off of films such as "The Hangover" (this time with a younger cast), "Harold and Kumar", and "Weekend at Bernies". The characters are either completely unlikable jerks or boringly one-dimensional and the paper-thin plot is a series of contrived situations that lead to one un-funny comedic bit to another. This is a comedy that believes it is being edgy and outrageous but instead it is boringly inoffensive. This film runs through every single predictable raunchy comedy cliche that we have already seen done before and better, plus its attempts at a dramatic sub-plot involving the drifting friendship between the characters is wildly ill-conceived and ham-fisted. While I may have gotten three chuckles and maybe one out-loud laugh, it does not make this film a worthwhile viewing. This film is lazy, boring, un-funny, and completely forgettable.

• Thomas B

  
  Hilarious and occasionally moving even if the story is slight. Full review later.

• Kase V

  
  It has laughs to offer and fun to be had, but '21 and Over' is far too unoriginal and forgettable to earn any solid praise. Once the credits roll, it's hard to remember a single solid joke.

• Eugene B

  
  The writers of The Hangover have formulated, once again, a clever plot with the same or greater amount of crude laughter. Although its conclusion looked cluster and somewhat less than satisfying, 21 and Over is insanely hysterical, obscene and yet able to tell a decent story,… More
  The writers of The Hangover have formulated, once again, a clever plot with the same or greater amount of crude laughter. Although its conclusion looked cluster and somewhat less than satisfying, 21 and Over is insanely hysterical, obscene and yet able to tell a decent story, especially with its young and charismatic cast. 3.5/5

• The Movie W

  
  Casey (Astin) and Miller (Teller) arrive at a Northern college town to celebrate the 21st birthday of their high school friend Jeff (Chon). With Jeff due to attend an 8am interview for a medical school the next morning, it seems the trio's party plans are scuppered. In spite of… More
  Casey (Astin) and Miller (Teller) arrive at a Northern college town to celebrate the 21st birthday of their high school friend Jeff (Chon). With Jeff due to attend an 8am interview for a medical school the next morning, it seems the trio's party plans are scuppered. In spite of this, Jeff gets wasted and when Casey and Miller attempt to get him home and rested, they realize they have no idea how to get back to his house. This leads them on a raucous adventure through the night as they strive to find his address. As the night progresses, they learn that Jeff has been leading a troubled life. '21 & Over' is the sort of movie you can't review. You can only scold it, like a mother whose pride and joy just arrived home in a police car. I'm not angry with '21 & Over', I'm just disappointed. I don't consider myself easily offended, in fact, on a personal level, nothing really offends me. I increasingly find myself offended on the behalf of others, however. On the behalf of Asians, Latinos, Serbs, Homosexuals, and anyone with a modicum of taste, humanity, and basic decency, I'm offended almost beyond words by this reprehensible piece of garbage. In the first half hour alone we see our "heroes" behave like arrogant idiots, vomiting, and even urinating on party-goers. There's also an incident which could be classed as a sexual assault, played for laughs. This sort of behavior in reality would lead to a severe, and well deserved, beating. If Al-Qaeda are short of recruitment videos, they could screen '21 & Over' as propaganda for why western "civilization" is something to abhor. I can't recall a movie this blatantly racist and homophobic. In the film-makers minds, simply not being a heterosexual, white, Anglo-Saxon male makes you a target for their "comedy". I try my best to never say this, as my reviews are purely subjective, but please, DON'T PAY TO SEE THIS MOVIE!!!

• Jeff B

  
  Content to stand with a low hand rather than deal a winning hit of Blackjack, 21 & Over mostly proves to be The Hangover cure: You'll want to avoid raunchy comedies altogether from here on in. It's not just that it follows a well-worn recipe for a boys-behaving-badly… More
  Content to stand with a low hand rather than deal a winning hit of Blackjack, 21 & Over mostly proves to be The Hangover cure: You'll want to avoid raunchy comedies altogether from here on in. It's not just that it follows a well-worn recipe for a boys-behaving-badly rite of passage, this flick actually steals outright from other successful R-rated comedies whether it be just a joke (Talladega Nights) or an entire climatic scene (Risky Business). This sophomoric romp manages to let more than a few laugh-getters slip by, but it's basically a rehash of hijinks already seen for better (Superbad) and worse (Project X). In this R-rated comedy from the screenwriters behind Hangover, a button-down student (Justin Chan) gets taken for a wild booze-filled 21st birthday thrillride by his friends (Teller, Astin)...the night before a career-defining morning interview. The cast successfully hits their marks and delivers, but these actors are merely place-holders for the next go-round of this genre. Are such flicks very bad Things? No, they're merely disposable Fast Times that fade from memory until the next Bachelor Party hits the screen. Bottom line: Back to Drool.

• Nastassia J

  
  Yet another amusing and very, very unmemorable teen flick.

• Lane Z

  
  Not very inventive. Very predictable and only below average funny. It tries too hard to be like the modern night out on the town drinking The Hangover but then it back tracks to Not Another Teen Movie stupidity. Too inconsistent.

• Philip P

  
  It was inevitable that this years comedy premiering in March and also beginning with the number 21 would get nowhere close to the glory of last years. That comedy and its dynamic duo of Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill are a tough match yet despite their much larger popularity the boys… More
  It was inevitable that this years comedy premiering in March and also beginning with the number 21 would get nowhere close to the glory of last years. That comedy and its dynamic duo of Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill are a tough match yet despite their much larger popularity the boys of 21 & Over, Miles Teller and Skylar Astin, were able to put up a good enough effort to win them a good bit of credibility and respect. 21 Jump Street this is not, but coming out almost a year to the day as Project X (that one produced by Hangover director Todd Phillips) this all night long party of a movie is more in the vein of films such as that juvenile outing. This one, surprisingly enough, has a more sophisticated (for lack of a better word) approach and no handheld camera schtick or as large an element of disbelief distracting us either. As written and directed by the same guys who penned the original Hangover script, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, I'd have to say I was surprised by how much I took away from this film. It goes by at a breakneck speed and hits all the right, formulaic marks before finding a conscience at the end that teaches a fine enough lesson without feeling too hypocritical. The film is nothing anyone will find to be particularly groundbreaking and certainly won't stick around in anyone's mind for much longer than its theatrical run, but it is well enough fun and much better than it had any right to be. For that, it deserves a bit of positive word of mouth. It is one of those films easy to dismiss, hip to pass off, but if someone were to put it on in the background at a party I guarantee a good portion of the people would find their attention drawn to the antics onscreen. read the whole review at www.reviewsfromabed.com

• Jason C

  
  College kids gone wild. Without originality, humor, story, while having plenty of overbearing characters, lame scenes, and poor acting.

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