|
Official Synopsis: Before YouTube... before MySpace... before Facebook there was I-LOVE-YOU.com and Colby Allen (Mathew Botuchis), the teen who invented user-generated content by secretly installing nanny-cams in his parents' home, and turning his family into the Internet's first Live Feed! reality show. Pocketing a cool $17K a week, Colby convinces his parents (Beau Bridges and Rosanna Arquette) that dysfunction sells. Something else sells, too: the vid stream of Colby's 18-year-old stepsister Audrey (Baelyn Neff), whose unwitting on-cam display of assets launches his enterprise in a big way. Nothing good on TV? Log on. The Bellinger family is just getting started. Our Take: The most redeeming thing I can say about I-See-You.com is that if it were a satire about reality television (or perhaps if it really were actually reality TV) it might have some potential. Of course that doesn’t mean it would necessarily be good, just have potential. In some ways it’s almost a satire by accident. By being so absurd and—well—not all that good, it does a number on the whole reality/internet based entertainment genre.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem that it was supposed to be strictly a satire which means it’s not a well done satire. And it’s not really a great comedy either which basically leaves it somewhere in the middle, and because of that there’s not much to keep the viewer entertained. Also I think by this point people realize how inane reality TV is and they’re still watching anyway, so pointing out how stupid it is might be a lost cause.
The extra features that are included are a 15 minute making-of documentary along with the original trailer and some extra scenes from the trailer.
I can’t think of too many reasons to recommend I See You.com. If you enjoy having the absurdity of the internet and/or reality television brought to your attention, then you might like it. Or if you like overly quirky and sexualized comedies then it might be up you alley. If not, this is one you might want to skip.
Overall Picture: Movie: C+ DVD: C
- Cris Savino
Staff Writer
|