Review of Alpha Dog (2006) by Veronique K — 27 Jul 2011

One thing I do feel bit dreary over alpha dog is its usage of language, the scumbag profanity, and everyone here is a stay-home bum drifting places, getting wasted, and taking advantages of the social excess pimped by the amercian society. it's about the feud between two drug-dealers turning into a kidnapping case. the film is obviously a comedy for showing the absurdity of the whole matter, the kidnapped kid is actually having fun from getting kidnapped due to some adolescent rebellion against his hen-packing overbearing mom, played by sharon stone. the kid is partying, drinking, smoking weeds, and having threesome with the youngest sweetest-looking girl (amanda seyfried) in the party. (quite a phallic dream to lose your virginity that way)...everyhing develops in the course of a blissful teenage dream until the schemer of the kidnap finally makes a stupid move to have the kid killed. suddenly all these wasted young people involved are being sentenced to life or death. even you can tell they're not truly malicious people (and they're actually quite friendly and kind to the kid) but they're just a bunch of stupid people whose minds are too loaded with weeds and alcohol to have a brain to think just a little bit more. they're f**ked for stupidity, a slip of wrong decision. end of story.

I must say justin timberlake really stands out here, and he's the one who really gets the move of trendy narcissistic hipster (maybe being hip-pop singer in real life helps), and the only guy you actually feel sympathetic for the punishment. timberlake sorta looks quite stylish with those graffitti tattos and those leisure wears, and he could talk in melodious rhymes. gee, he gets the moves.

Perhaps the most impressive part belongs to sharon stone for wearing the fat suit in the end of film, quite a shock indeed. the ex-crotch-flashing goddess of basic instinct plays against her usual sexy roles, and she's here a nagging severe mother who eats herself into monstrous obesity for overtly mourning for her son's death. wow.

As for the brief part of amanda seyfried as the girl who takes the kid's virginity, she does a successful job to shed off the stupid "mean girl" image and begins to demonstrate a naughty kind of sex appeal..maybe that was the reason seyfried took such a petite gratuitous role. (just to prove she could be wild and luring, so no longer the goody girl next door?) and the threesome sex scene in swimming pool feels like a sauce sprayed on the dish to help you consume this style-over-subtance vacant movie.

At least, I wasn't bored by this despite my annoyance with the people in such childish lifestyle. every line is an offensive pun of fellatio or foolish swaggeries which populate among american red-necks. is that these guys have nothing to be proud of except the fact they do own a pair of testicles? not even pairs of "nice-qualitied" testicles with decent sizes. (pun intended.).