Kaboom

Movie: Kaboom

Genre: comedy

Synopsis: Smith (Thomas Dekker) and Stella (Haley Bennett) have been best friends forever.  They are now in college together.  Stella is gay, Smith is “undeclared”.  Smith has an odd dream that is seemingly coming true.  He meets a girl from the dream, only to see her die when attacked by men wearing animal heads.  The next day there is no evidence of any foul play.  Eventually Smith and Stella and Smith’s new friend, London (Juno Temple) start figuring out what is going on.

My two cents: This was a strange one.  It has a lot of things going on: a subversive group planning to take over the world, a plan to blow up the world, witches, boy-on-boy sex, boy-on-girl sex, girl-on-girl sex, boy-on-girl-on-boy-sex, children kidnapped to be brain washed and yes – men running around wearing animal heads when they do their evil deed.  If you can go with the flow, the movie is kind of fun – but I kept finding myself muttering “Oh come on, give me a break”.

Bottom line: if you see this, just try to accept what it gives you and don’t look for anything resembling realism.

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