Is It Time To Remake The Party?

2. It Could Become Just Another Party Movie Ever since American Pie sunk its claws (and other body parts) in the conventions of Animal House, we€™ve been treated to a slew of movies which revolve around or feature in some way a drunken frat-style party. Whether it€™s gross-out fodder like Superbad or found footage works like Chronicle and Project X, it seems you can€™t have a party in an American film nowadays unless it features obnoxious levels of drinking, sex, nudity and/ or drug-taking (because hey, aren€™t all parties like that?!). The point here is that any remake would run the risk of falling into this trap if it doesn€™t get the comedy right. The Party worked originally because the party itself was reasonably low-key; it wasn€™t a rave in which you can barely see, let alone hear, what the characters are saying. If a remake wants to depict a 21st-century party, it must do it in a way that allows the confusion to unfold naturally, rather than shoving unlikeable people in our faces and expecting us to take to them. Click Next for the final analysis...