10 Films That Were Totally Changed For Foreign Audiences

4. 21 & Over Is A Cautionary Tale In Asia

You can probably be forgiven for forgetting this frat boy comedy even exists, despite the fact it only came out last year, and was the product of the crazily successful screenwriters of The Hangover films. Turns out that Jon Lucas and Scott Moore are a bit of a one trick pony, since 21 & Over is nothing more than a college-aged retread of those other movies. High school buddies Casey and Miller resolve to take out their pal Jeff Chang to celebrate his 21st birthday, but the diligent student is adamant he needs to get a good night's sleep before an important test in the morning. With enough badgering, Casey and Miller get him to come out for one drink. Which, of course, turns into many drinks, drugs, fighting with sorority sisters, getting checked into a mental health facility, driving a car, and then things somehow working out for the better, in a sort of Ferris Bueller's Day Off way, with Jeff Chang being the Cameron in this scenario. All of which actually sounds pretty entertaining, but believe us, it isn't. It's mostly unfunny, offensive, and uninspired. Despite which, we would very much like to see the Chinese version of the film. 21 & Over goes to even greater lengths than Iron Man 3 in pandering to this new, huge cinema market by adding new scenes which reposition the film not as two cool American teens helping a dorky Asian guy learn how to party, but a cautionary tale about "a boy who leaves China, gets corrupted by our wayward, Western partying ways and goes back to China a better person", according to Jon Lucas. Amazing.