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The Marc Pease Experience

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I suppose what will make or break this film is expectations. If you are expecting a Ben Stiller comedy - skip it. If you are expecting a Jason Schwartzman dating-the-older-gal (Rushmore - Criterion Collection) fun/obscure title - skip it. If on the other hand you are in the mood for boring rants and lectures on coordinating a high school musical play - then this is your movie. Seriously.

This film follows a 25 year old Marc Pease (Schwartzman) as he navigates his life of driving a limo, running a 4-person singing group (called the something 8's) and dating his high school senior girlfriend. Ben Stiller plays the school admin that teaches drama and singing at the same school Pease attended and his girlfriend (Jessica from Twilight (Two-Disc Special Edition)) is at now. Over this 80 minutes we are subjected to Stiller giving person-by-person analysis of how his class rehearsals are going - 3 different times. I know some people like his long dissertations in film while trying to be witty and such, but it really falls flat and boring here. They throw in some inappropriate relationship stuff between Stiller and a young student followed by a whole series of unlikely and uncomfortable situations with Schwartzman's awkwardness of trying to become an actual adult.

The picture and sound quality are fine and there are no real extras. The cover art is unappealing as there isn't any, so I give three stars for the performances (which in themselves are good) and film quality, but there is nothing here to recommend except to maybe those putting on their own singing plays in high school.

This movie was so politically correct to become boring and annoying. There is also a fat Alice in wonderland, I am wondering what message were they meaning to send: "Fat is beautiful so eat a lot and be unhealthy everyone"...