The Party Reviews

I expected a lot more from this film. It started off very well; the scenes when the timid bumbling Indian actor (played by the awesome Peter Sellers) makes blunder after blunder to accidentally ruin a movie production was hilarious. And when he gets invited by mistake to a fancy party by the producer of the film, the scenes where he approaches different gets, gets into trouble almost every step of the way, oh, those scenes were priceless. Top sight gags. Reminded me a bit of Mr. Bean escapades. About 30 minutes into it though, especially the scenes with the drunk waiter, seemed way overdone. Watching a drunk keep making mistakes wasn't that funny, and it took away from our dopey Indian friend. They should've just kept attention on the star of the film. Then it recovered nicely, when he had to urinate and couldn't find anywhere to go, and the scenes with the toilet antics was great too. Pretty much anything that could go wrong went wrong.

But once he fell into the pool, it went downhill real fast, and last half hour was painfully boring, stupid, and un-funny. I wish I shut it off when he falls into the water, because I could've gone to sleep sooner. There was no more jokes afterwards. It turned into a 1960s-style teen bop party, with a baby elephant, tons of teens, lots of dancing, lots of bubbles, and every 5 minutes someone falling into the pool. It felt like they ran out of material for the script and thought bubbles and teens for half hour was great stuff to watch.

So overall, I recommend it, and its a keeper just for the laughs in the first half, but trust me, when he falls into the pool, SHUT IT OFF. You'll thank me later. :)