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'We Are Your Friends': More Millennial Malaise . . .

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After I said, "Senior", I looked at the girl and finished with: "I'm too old for this." She said, "Not really."

I was surprised by this as a Pretty Boy Efron movie doesn't seem to get much below "middling to bad". I've never seen him in an "awful" although I have hardly seen more the four. The story is a typical tale of young guys with little to bad direction trying to make it in life. Efron hangs with his three homes and lives in "the valley" surviving with carpentry and amateur DJ'ing.

Somehow, while doing a gig, he runs into Ratajkowski and her boyfriend, Bentley. Bentley is a 40 year-old DJ idle of the dance set and luckily takes Efron under his tutelage.

Illicit romance begins, friendships are strained, and unnecessary tragedy occurs. Millennial life goes on.

This film has a nifty primer on dance music which I kind of appreciated. It does have a rather spiffy soundtrack (of course it does!) and is fairly enjoyable altogether. Critics have clobbered this because it is the replay of the same film made many times. This time it is for the latest generation.

Oddly, this film is the antithesis of 'Straight Out of Compton'. We are dealing with middle-class kids making electronic beats with little to no lyrics while just across the theater young men are rousing other young men to action not to dance. Go figure.

You old codgers just wait for it on cable. It will be extra good to see during the presidential debates next year.

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