I Melt with You
Lisa L. Kirchner
Rob Lowe is still pretty. As is the rest of the cast of I MELT WITH YOU, a film about four college chums in their early 40s getting together for a reunion weekend. The promotional materials suggest this is a groundbreaking film about white, middle-aged, male angst (okay, the last four adjectives were mine), a fact I believe that we the audience are supposed to know because of the low production value. Music, drug and alcohol abuse, and fast cuts—all off the charts. But dialogue, plot, story? Not so much.
If director/producer Mark Pellington had crafted this for his better-known milieu, television, it might’ve worked. But he really would’ve nailed it as a music video. The beginning introduces each character in his quotidien life, getting off to a promising start. But things devolve quickly as the boys rendezvous in Big Sur and start to party like 19 year olds. [Read the rest here thethreetomatoes.com]
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