Marval Movie

The movie of Entourage clearly shows that there is some kind of bizarre obsession with celebrities. It doesn't seek to explain this obsession or even be aware that there's is a possibility to explain it, its only here to feed it.

I have never seen a single episode of the original TV show, but that's OK because it doesn't seem like a truly heavy continuity product. All that needs to be knows is that there are four friends, plus their manager that are possibly too close to be truly healthy.

The plot is that Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) has just divorced from his wife after two days and so he throws a party. His friends Eric (Kevin Connolly), Turtle (Jerry Ferrara) and brother Johnny (Kevin Dillon) join him on his yacht and realize that maybe the constant partying and staring in lame movies is getting old, so when Vincent's former manager, now studio head Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven) calls him about a new role he has one demand "The next thing I star in I also want to direct."

Ari agrees and the movie gets made, but there are financial troubles so he must go and get more money from the investors. Larsen McCredle (Billy Bob Thorton) and Travis McCredle (Haley Joel Osmend), they have their own thoughts about how to make a movie and Larsen sends Travis back to Hollywood with Ari.

As you'd expect of any movie that takes place in Hollywood and is about the movie industry there are celebrity cameo's. This movie may be trying to set a record for the amount of cameos in a single movie. They just consist of having an instantly recognizable face appear on-screen in some way and more than likely dropping a few four-letter-words then walking off screen to probably collect their paycheck for the day. 

There were hardly any times were I actually laughed in the movie. There were other people in the theater that did but I was left just sitting and starring at the screen knowing that I am just not at audience for the movie.

The two best things in the movie are Jeremy Piven and Haley Joel Osment. Piven is a bombshell of rage and insults along with being frustrated with the idiots that surround him in Hollywood because he's always right (which he kind of is). Osment gives a hilarious performance a Texan Red-neck that believes he can buy anything and isn't aware of the difference between manners and back-handed comments.

This movie is for the obsessed and the shallow. It is technically well-made and well-acted but lazily written and with questionable morals. Something like The Great Gatsby had shallow characters but had a deep story showing that the characters were indeed shallow. This has shallow characters and a shallow story to accompany it.

Rating: 1 1/2 stars out of 4