For anyone who’s watched MTV’s reality show My Super Sweet 16, the sense of entitlement exhibited by some of its birthday girls and the obscene flaunting of wealth in the service of celebrating them can be as horrifying as any youth-slasher film. Now that the network has combined the two forms in its original movie My Super Psycho Sweet 16 (debuting tonight at 10 p.m. Est/Pst), it’s disappointing, but perhaps not surprising, that the result doesn’t take full advantage of the opportunity to throw some barbed satire the series’ way, preferring instead to emphasize a generic scenario of pointed objects aimed at its teen characters.
Actually, you have to take some of the protagonists’ word for their teenaged status; “You only turn 16 once,” says antiheroine Madison Penrose (Julianna Guill), who looks like she’s turned 16 at least four or five times. Madison wants to reopen...
Actually, you have to take some of the protagonists’ word for their teenaged status; “You only turn 16 once,” says antiheroine Madison Penrose (Julianna Guill), who looks like she’s turned 16 at least four or five times. Madison wants to reopen...
- 10/23/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
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