Not Another Celebrity Movie

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning

Charlie Sheen has decided that Justin Bieber is, in fact, his biological son, and so rounds up a group of celebrity pals, including Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, Donald Trump, Brad Pitt and George Clooney, to corner him at a gig in Las Vegas. Meanwhile, Sheen must contend with his former squeeze Paris Hilton being on the arm of smooth crooner Usher among other things.

The excess of the 1980s provided a great time for the spoof genre, where the pomposity and overblown nature of everything led to a climate ripe for satire, where the likes of Pat Proft and Jerry Zucker could generate the fun out of anything. Somehow, the generations that followed never managed to match the quality of it, and Not Another Celebrity Movie is the latest (un)shining example of it. So confident did the distributors appear, that it has taken three years to arrive direct to DVD on these shores.

A plot less, incoherent shambles, looking so cheap and low budget your average student production could maybe look more convincing, this wouldn't be so bad if only it could compensate with an abundance of laughs, but, like everything else, they're not on the front pages. *

I didn't expect much to be fair, and the fact it has very few reviews at all was concerning, and most things written about it are negative which I found a bit harsh.

First thing to keep in mind is the genre it belongs to, and in that respect its much better than the other spoofs or 'not another' style movies we have had recently. Agree this is not a strong genre so not a good enough reason to rate it by comparison, but the cast really made it worth it for me. I found the vast majority of them to be really good, spot on impressions and that alone gave me a good few laughs. Tom Cruise for me was hilarious.

Another positive it has, as much as the story is weak (again its a spoof), at least its coherent. I thought it would stumble from one skit to another but it does follow the established plot line mirroring an Oceans film.

Not saying this is one to rush out and buy, but at the end of the day its just a comedy making light fun of a large group of celebrities and in that respect i enjoyed it. There are certainly worse ways to spend 90 minutes so check it out for some cheap laughs.