“Why don't you van go fuck yourself."
Stories
dealing with stolen art are some of my favorites. I have a degree in Art
History and museum studies. Besides movies and music, art and museums are my
life passions. I always get a kick out of hearing art references in movies or
if a story is dealing with art heists and mysteries. Usually stories dealing
with art heists are serious dramas or thrillers they are not a lot of comedies
(well, to my knowledge at least). There are not a lot of comedies are stolen
art especially when it comes to movies geared towards young adults. But there
is one movie that deals with stolen and forged art that is geared towards young
adults called Bad Night starring two
YouTube vlogging stars Jenn McAllister and Lauren Elizabeth.
Best
friends Abby (McAllister) and Kate (Elizabeth) go on a Saturday morning trip
with their AP Art History class for extra credit. On their way home the small
group stops for lunch. Back on the bus everyone, including the teacher and the
driver, get major food poisoning and get majorly sick everywhere. The bus
driver refuses to rid back to school in the condition he and everyone else is
in. Kate does not want to stay in the hotel room despite the teacher telling
the students they cannot go out anywhere they all have to stay in their rooms.
Kate is in a mood because her parents told her they cannot afford to send her
to college so all she wants to do is go out and have some fun with the credit
card her parents gave her for emergencies.
On
the other side of this story is a crooked foreigner and criminal named Ari
(Matt Walsh). He has gotten in touch with two famous art thieves who are
supposed to be delivering a lost Van Gogh painting. He has a guy who goes by
Wheels to pick up the female art thieves to drive them wherever they need to
go.
Kate
calls a car to come pick them up and gives the driver the name Monarch and
Viceroy instead of their actual names. When they go out to the car they kind of
get into the wrong car. They wind up getting into the car that Wheels is
driving. Turns out the thieves are known by their code names that are also
Monarch and Viceroy and they get into the car that Kate and Abby were supposed
to be taking.
Abby
and Kate started off having a good time going to the goodwill store to get
different clothes then going out to dinner to a fancy restaurant. The real
Monarch and Viceroy, despite not having a real getaway driver, they manage to
get a copy of the Van Gogh painting. Eventually, both parties realize they have
the wrong drivers and their night gets a little crazy.
I
did not know what was going to happen in the story of Bad Night. I recently read Jenn McAllister’s book Really Professional Internet Person and she talked
filming it and what input she and her friend Lauren Elizabeth had with it.
After reading the book I was very interested to watch Bad Night and I have to say I was surprised by how good it was. I enjoyed
it as a not so serious movie. As I said at the beginning I love when there is a
story about stolen art and this was pretty funny. The Van Gogh they were
looking for was not an actual Van Gogh painting but it was hilarious. I had no
idea Matt Walsh was in the movie so I was pleasantly surprised and very happy
to see him. McAllister and Elizabeth were not bad actresses at all. McAllister
wrote in her book that she always wanted to act and that this was her first
time doing so. I was not expecting her acting and Elizabeth’s acting to be that
great so see them actually acting and not sucking was awesome.
Bad Night is an enjoyable movie. I feel
the story did not get out of hand with being silly or ridiculous. The humor was
perfect. The direction by Reidel brothers was great too. I have seen one of
their other movies which was also a comedy and I like their direction a lot
because they do manage to keep the comedy from getting out of hand. Bad Night is a fun movie that I suggest
seeing especially if you are into watching YouTuber movies.
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