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Awkward and Uncertain

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That Awkward Moment’s frat comedy lacks the Lubitsch Touch The three best friends of That Awkward Moment, graphic artists Jason and Daniel (Zac Efron, Miles Teller) and medical intern Mike (Michael B. Jordan), are cynical about increasing their sexual activity, enjoying their young middle-class professional prerogative on the loose in New York City. Encouraging each other to keep a “roster” of conquests, these sitcom dudes’ attitude and talk are artificially raunchy–the language of contrived realism that attempts to match the new frank, unapologetic amorality made fashionable by TV’s Two and a Half Men and Lena Dunham’s HBO series Girls. The boy-men of That Awkward Moment don’t suffer the misgivings that show runner-star Dunham embraces; their masculine humiliations are just frat boy braggadocio (penis jokes, fart gags, zero chagrin, alcohol). The lack of genuine humiliation and lack of depth keep That Awkward Moment from achieving the most redemptive quality of even Girls’ gross exhibitionism. The exhibitionism in That Awkward Moment is worse than a sitcom; it’s rank, calculated indie snark. By fortunate coincidence, I saw That Awkward Moment a day after watching Ernst Lubitsch’s 1941 That Uncertain Feeling which was a world away in style and feeling, where sexual awareness came […]

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