the audience applauded

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Satire about the miseries of a bunch of wannabe actors and celebrities, filled with increasingly dark humor and some funny one-liners. Its aesthetic choices and particularly its score are surprising at first because they are very reminiscent of a thriller, but at the end I found them to work very well by contrast and matched the darkness at the core of the story. All in all, quite inspired and enjoyable.