21 and Over – review

From the writers of The Hangover One, Two and the forthcoming Three comes 21 and Over, a filming-by-numbers adolescent comedy that begins lewd and clear as two male students arrive on a Seattle campus on the eve of midsummer break, naked except for the socks covering their penises. The movie then explains what happened during the preceding 24 hours when they took out their Chinese-American pre-med chum to celebrate his 21st birthday. A lot of booze, vomiting, grass, pissing on fellow drinkers at a student bar, brawling, destruction and embarrassing behaviour. It makes respectability and adulthood in the form of the young, would-be medical student's ambitious, suit-wearing doctor father look rather attractive. That is not, however, the film's intention.