On my day off I decided to spend lunch time watching a movie, and opted for Slackers, a comedy that I knew starred Devon Sawa and that I'd recorded late night on Channel 4, which meant there were very few ad breaks, but also a little man signing in the corner for all the insomniac deaf viewers that TV caters for after midnight. The movie is brief - about 80mins - and fairly sleight plot-wise, but I enjoyed it, possibly because there was no extraneous flab on the bones of the fairly pedestrian I-can-see-where-this-is-going-to-end-from-the-beginning storyline. What made the film enjoyable where the performances from the young cast and the off-beat nature (the latter illustrated by a fab cameo from a game Cameron Diaz). Jason Schwartzman plays a creepy, stalkerish nerd who's so much more interesting than most college nerds depicted in movies, and one who's interested in a girl. He's a freak though, so he's got no chance, and resorts to black-mailing cheaters and con-men college buddies Devon Sawa, Michael Maronna and Jason Segel into helping him get the girl. Predictably, cute, blond Sawa is the boy Jaime King wants, not the bushy-eyebrowed geek.
There are some lame gags - fart jokes are rarely funny - and some great ones too - Maronna's penis sings to him at one point, for no real reason. Most importantly Devon Sawa is hot. Ever since his tiny cameo as the human Casper at the end of the 1995 movie, I've had a soft spot for this cutie. So, I'm surprised to note from his IMDb details that I've only actually seen him in Final Destination and Eminem's Stan video besides Casper and Slackers, and it appears he's not actually done a great deal worth seeing, which is a shame. Anyway, he's lovely in Slackers, and it passed a good 80mins. I didn't learn any sign language though.
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