According to the credits, this underwhelming motion picture was written by four people, based on an original idea by two other people and with additional dialog supplied by yet two more different people. After watching I Want Candy, I completely believe that 8 separate brains went into creating this story. Unfortunately, writing is a lot like sex. If more than 3 people are involved it just turns into one big clusterf**k. This movie should be a reminder to all filmmakers that if you're signing checks for more than 3 writers, you should walk away from the project and find something better to do.
This tale of a couple of British film students (Tom Riley and Tom Burke) who finagle their way into making a porn film with a famous adult actress (Carmen Electra) as their last gasp at living out their dreams of cinema glory is uneven, unbalanced and a thin as North Korean toilet paper. It has two main characters when it really only needs one. It has 3 villains when it really only needs one. It recycles some of the oldest and most played out jokes you can imagine. Even though it's about making a porno, it has a thoroughly PG tone except for two definitely R scenes - one involving ping pong balls out of a vagina and the other about a man's explosively premature ejaculation flying across the room and hitting another man in the face like an angry milk shake. One of the film students is the focus of pretty much the first 70 minutes of the movie, then the other guy is suddenly treated like he's the important one.
I could go on and on with this thing. I Want Candy is so obviously the result of a bunch of people contributing random bits of dialog and plot that there's no way it could ever be mistaken as the product of a single creative impulse. With so many writers involved in the script, there was no one person responsible for making sure the most basic things were covered like characters the audience cares about, conflicts they can believe and things actually making sense. I mean, this thing would have its audience believe that two 20something dudes who want to be in show business have never seen a porno before. Really?
I Want Candy isn't as atrocious as some of the vile refuse I've witnessed. The cast can all act, the director appears to know what he's doing and the whole mess is understandable, if nothing else. But this is a comedy that is not funny. How could it be? The characters' personalities change based on whichever of the 8 writers involved penned a particular scene or line and there's not an ounce of reality to anything they do or any challenge they face.
Maybe if just one of the 8 writers paid for this thing had been given the job of doing the whole screenplay him- or herself, they might have some up with something worthwhile. None of them were, so they didn't. Trust me, you don't want to see I Want Candy.
This tale of a couple of British film students (Tom Riley and Tom Burke) who finagle their way into making a porn film with a famous adult actress (Carmen Electra) as their last gasp at living out their dreams of cinema glory is uneven, unbalanced and a thin as North Korean toilet paper. It has two main characters when it really only needs one. It has 3 villains when it really only needs one. It recycles some of the oldest and most played out jokes you can imagine. Even though it's about making a porno, it has a thoroughly PG tone except for two definitely R scenes - one involving ping pong balls out of a vagina and the other about a man's explosively premature ejaculation flying across the room and hitting another man in the face like an angry milk shake. One of the film students is the focus of pretty much the first 70 minutes of the movie, then the other guy is suddenly treated like he's the important one.
I could go on and on with this thing. I Want Candy is so obviously the result of a bunch of people contributing random bits of dialog and plot that there's no way it could ever be mistaken as the product of a single creative impulse. With so many writers involved in the script, there was no one person responsible for making sure the most basic things were covered like characters the audience cares about, conflicts they can believe and things actually making sense. I mean, this thing would have its audience believe that two 20something dudes who want to be in show business have never seen a porno before. Really?
I Want Candy isn't as atrocious as some of the vile refuse I've witnessed. The cast can all act, the director appears to know what he's doing and the whole mess is understandable, if nothing else. But this is a comedy that is not funny. How could it be? The characters' personalities change based on whichever of the 8 writers involved penned a particular scene or line and there's not an ounce of reality to anything they do or any challenge they face.
Maybe if just one of the 8 writers paid for this thing had been given the job of doing the whole screenplay him- or herself, they might have some up with something worthwhile. None of them were, so they didn't. Trust me, you don't want to see I Want Candy.