Kaboom (8/10)

"Kaboom" is a perverse, horny, drug fueled, trippy, bizarre, colorful and sex driven time at the movies. I hope that got your attention cause this film got mine. It's also got a subplot/ building up to the end of the world. So I guess that this film is a mix of "Donnie Darko" and "Mysterious Skin". It is however is not as dark as those two films and thus easy to enjoy. The film revolves around Smith (A nice breakthrough by Thomas Dekker) as he moves around his college campus. While the movie doesn't do a great job with capturing the college life, it does make it fresh. Some situations here are more lifelike and others more fun than college has been portrayed in other films. Smith is undecided on his sexuality and sleeps with both men and woman. He has fantasies about his roommate named Thor (Chris Zylka) and sleeps with the feisty London (Juno Temple). Throw in his partner in crime is Stella (The sassy Haley Bennet) and all the characters have a blast on screen. This is quite an enjoyable film because it's fresh and doesn't hold back on it's sexuality. Speaking of fresh there is a scene in the film I can't believe I haven't seen before. It's so good I figured why would they not do this in other movies all the time. It involves a split screen where something interesting is happening on both ends. Now "500 Days of Summer" did it in it's own form, but "Kaboom" isn't priding itself on it, it comes natural. Stella fears her crazy girlfriend on one side of the screen and we see somebody watching Smith on the other. "Kaboom" is great entertainment at the movies.

8/10
Recommendation: Fun and lively while not holding back on it's sexual nature. If your looking for something different than here it is.