We the Party

R

Released Apr 6, 2012

1 hr. 44 min.

Comedy

Drama

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28%

18 Reviews

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67%

2,500+ Ratings

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A smart but underachieving teen (Mandela Van Peebles) sets his sights on a brainy classmate (Simone Battle) who is driven to succeed.

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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who was this movie made for??? anyone beyond the tween and teen group will drop out of their chair trying to watch this movie. i think i hit the floor three or four times (just kidding). there are endless scenes of monotonous 'teen' interaction and needless stagnant obsessive viewing of 'young flesh' in various stages of dress. if you are willing to punish yourself watching these sophomoric scenes of behavior you will get to the message this film so wants to tell. unfortunately this takes almost two hours! it might have been more powerful if the director & editor has whittled the footage down to at least one hour. but as it is i found myself getting very agitated watching these teens act out a life that obviously had no meaning to them outside of the script.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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It's not the worst movie. The cast was too much i couldn't keep track. It is like every other high school movie out there nothing new here. The movie does grow on you after a while though.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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The problem with this movie is that it didn't know what it wanted to be. At various points it felt like "American Pie" (1999), while at others it felt like "Dangerous Minds" (1995), and yet at times the dialogue felt like I was watching "High School Musical" (2006). Or was this supposed to be a music movie? If so, it didn't work too well. It had a really long rap battle scene, where you couldn't even understand what they were saying. If you want a movie like that, watch "8 Mile" (2002). I really didn't like most of the music in this movie--really it's not my preferred genre, so it's hard for me to judge if it was good or bad. I did like "Truth" by YG--mixing in Canon in D makes everything sound good. I think the movie would've been better if it stuck to a particular style. If they were aiming for cheesy teen movie, than they should've done that. If they were aiming for urban hardship and coming of age, they should've stuck with that. All mixed together, it ended up being mush. The movie deals with a socioeconomically diverse high school, and the teen problems within it. But again, it tried to deal with too much. It felt like there was no centralized plot, it dragged on, and there was often a feeling of "where are we going with this?" I think they should consider making this movie into a television series, that way they can deal with all the different characters and all the different situations one episode at a time.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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its a movie u can watch with your teens and they can relate

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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or you can call it "Van Peebles Next generation" unwise I enjoyed this movie - not the humor of American Pie but a certain innocent and realistic to it.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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Scott Bowles

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Every time it dabbles in real-world teen issues like sex and drugs, it returns to a fanciful high school where kids quote Nietzsche and play acoustic guitar on lunch breaks.

Rated: 2/4

Apr 6, 2012

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Elizabeth Weitzman

New York Daily News

Mario Van Peebles' self-produced project comes frustratingly close to his high-minded aims.

Rated: 2/5

Apr 6, 2012

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Frank Scheck

Hollywood Reporter

Heavy-handed teen drama mixes moralizing and partying to uneven effect.

Apr 6, 2012

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Witney Seibold

CraveOnline

I have to admit there is something kind of disarming about its corny earnestness. Van Peebles clearly invested himself in the material, and damn it all if he wasn't going to wring that screenplay for all it was worth.

Rated: 6.5/10

Aug 22, 2012

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

[VIDEO] There are a few moments during writer/director Mario Van Peebles's overly didactic high school drama when you can almost glimpse the good film buried beneath all the artifice.

Rated: c-

Apr 8, 2012

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David Noh

Film Journal International

Initially promising teen comedy-drama, featuring African-American kids not in the ghetto for once, soon undermines itself in a welter of clichs and empty gloss.

Apr 6, 2012

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Synopsis

A smart but underachieving teen (Mandela Van Peebles) sets his sights on a brainy classmate (Simone Battle) who is driven to succeed.

Director: Mario Van Peebles
Screenwriter: Mario Van Peebles
Distributor: ARC Entertainment
Production Co: Eagle Films
Rating: R (Sexual Content|All Involving Teens|Language|Brief Drug Use)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 6, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 18, 2016