[My Super Psycho Sweet 16]
Plot:A killer crashes Madison Penrose's birthday bash at the Rollerdome, the site of several grisly murders a decade earlier.

Cast:Chris Zylka, Ric Reitz, Lauren McKnight, Matt Angel, Alex Van, Marvin Baldwin Jr., Justin Price, Melanie Booth, Max Calder, Amaris Dupree, Lauren Eichner, Maia Osman.

My Thoughts:Retarded, but fun on some levels.

Review:When you sit down to watch a movie called "Super Psycho Sweet 16", you pretty much know what you're gonna get already. With that being said, as retarded as this movie was in some areas, it was still fun in a few areas as well. Does that put it over the top though? Eh, maybe, maybe not. The film follows a spoiled rich girl named Madison Penrose (Guill), she's so spoiled she even has a spoiled rich girl name. Madison is the typical super-popular suburban teenager at her school. Mostly because she rules with an iron fist over the student body, sicking her flunkies on anyone who dares to cross her or deny her what she wants. Madison has no real arch-enemies though.

That is until a girl who's been deemed the school weirdo, Skye (McKnight), catches the eye of Madison's boyfriend. Now, Madison has her eyes set on Skye, as in destroying her. But with Madison's sweet 16 party approaching, and the feud between her and SKye reaching a boiling point, a new player enters the picture. A sword wielding, masked killer, who is hell bent on revenge. This movie oddly enough does some great character development on it's two lead stars.

Guill's character Madison is the typical spoiled rich, daddy's girl who throws a tantrum when she doesn't get her way, and always expects her daddy to fix anything that goes wrong. Skye, is the good-looking in normal life, but ugly in high-school life's social pecking order...girl, who has the obligatory glasses-wearing best friend and the obligatory bad hair. So the writers really make sure to draw distinctions between both characters, and put viewers in a position where they have to pick a team to root for, team Madison or team Skye.

Typical MTV stuff of course, but this movie steals from a ton of other teen comedies, and teen horror movies when it comes to it's unfolding storylines. For example, the boy who's dating the popular girl falling for the outcast, and drawing the ire of the popular girl and her friends. Can we say "Carrie 2"? Or the outcast girl with the tragic past? How many 80's slashers have done that one huh? In this films case, Skye's father many years back, when Skye was a little girl, was in attendance at a sweet 16-like gathering, and when the bratty teens pissed him off, he went on a vicious killing spree against them during the festivities.

The way this scene unfolds at the beginning of the film is funny to watch, but it really boxes the film in story wise. We pretty much already know who the killer will end up being once the slicing and dicing starts. And that's really the only positives this film has to offer beyond it's hyper-cliche character make-ups. The kills in this movie are great. People bashed to death with fire extinguishers, others stabbed with a sword. And the deaths are highly accented by the stupidity of the teenagers targeted.

One scene where a girl can easily and obviously climb a gate, but chooses to cry and whimper and whine instead until she's slashed to death, really stands out on the stup-o-meter in this movie. "My Super Psycho Sweet 16" manages to be a C- film for most of the duration of it's two hour run, but it jumps to a B+ during the films final act because of some clever plot-twists and some people getting their "just-desserts" at the hands of the killer. Granted, this movie could've had the A-typical ending, which was what I was expecting it to go for.

But this movie concludes on a perfect, funny, and righteous note when it comes to who lives, who dies, and the way it all unfolds at the very end. My advice, this film is worth seeing atleast once, but don't look too deeply into it or take it too seriously. It's really a brainless slasher movie in it's most purest form, but manages to be enjoyable on a few levels if you can cut through some of the annoying characters and some spotty writing. The final 10 minutes manages to push it from a decent film, to a good one. The final 10 are really that good....trust me.

Positives:Great finale, as cliche as Madison and Skye are as characters, their respective roles in the movie are so well built up with the usual character traits that you can't help but laugh at how outrageous and exaggerative they both are. Good kills for a made-for-tv movie. Guill and McKnight play their roles really well.

Negatives:Way too cliche to be clever in any way, most of the characters are extremely annoying and aren't dispatched of quick enough, too much lag time between a lot of the kills.

Overall:Two and a half out of four stars.





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