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Best Night Ever

  • 20132013
  • RR
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
3.9/10
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Crista Flanagan, Desiree Hall, Samantha Colburn, and Eddie Ritchard in Best Night Ever (2013)
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Comedy
Claire is about to get married, but her bachelorette party quickly spirals out of control.Claire is about to get married, but her bachelorette party quickly spirals out of control.Claire is about to get married, but her bachelorette party quickly spirals out of control.
IMDb RATING
3.9/10
2.8K
YOUR RATING
    • Jason Friedberg
    • Aaron Seltzer
    • Jason Friedberg
    • Aaron Seltzer
  • Stars
    • Desiree Hall
    • Samantha Colburn
    • Eddie Ritchard
    • Jason Friedberg
    • Aaron Seltzer
    • Jason Friedberg
    • Aaron Seltzer
  • Stars
    • Desiree Hall
    • Samantha Colburn
    • Eddie Ritchard
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    • 31User reviews
    • 26Critic reviews
    • 17Metascore
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    Crista Flanagan and Samantha Colburn in Best Night Ever (2013)
    Crista Flanagan in Best Night Ever (2013)
    Desiree Hall, Samantha Colburn, and Eddie Ritchard in Best Night Ever (2013)
    Crista Flanagan, Desiree Hall, Samantha Colburn, and Eddie Ritchard in Best Night Ever (2013)
    Desiree Hall, Samantha Colburn, and Eddie Ritchard in Best Night Ever (2013)
    Desiree Hall and Eddie Ritchard in Best Night Ever (2013)

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    Desiree Hall
    Desiree Hall
    • Claire
    Samantha Colburn
    Samantha Colburn
    • Leslie
    Eddie Ritchard
    Eddie Ritchard
    • Zoe
    Crista Flanagan
    Crista Flanagan
    • Janet Simmons
    Andy Favreau
    Andy Favreau
    • Rick
    Nick Steele
    Nick Steele
    • Trevor
    Lynette DuPree
    Lynette DuPree
    • Linda
    • (as Lynette Dupree)
    Jason Beaubien
    Jason Beaubien
    • Skinny White Man
    Amin Joseph
    Amin Joseph
    • Marcus
    James Jordan
    James Jordan
    • Man in Red Vest
    Winston James Francis
    Winston James Francis
    • Strip Club Bouncer
    Patrick Quinlan
    Patrick Quinlan
    • Paramedic
    • (as Patrick Quinian)
    Matt Giampietro
    • Dude at Bachelor Party
    Steve West
    Steve West
    • Mike The Bachelor
    Jena Sims
    Jena Sims
    • Hooker #2
    Jenny Lin
    Jenny Lin
    • Hooker #1
    Paul Nygro
    Paul Nygro
    • Driver in Crash
    David Grammer
    David Grammer
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      • Aaron Seltzer
      • Jason Friedberg
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    • Trivia
      The first R-rated film to be directed by Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg.
    • Goofs
      When the girls come after Claire at the hotel, they say they will go up to the 5th floor but the rooms numbers indicate they are actually in the 9th floor.
    • Quotes

      Leslie: Ugh, what's that smell?

      Janet: We're in a dumpster.

    • Crazy credits
      There's a post-credits scene.
    • Connections
      Referenced in I Hate Everything: the Search for the Worst: Smosh: The Movie (2015)
    • Soundtracks
      On the Floor
      Written by Eric Goldman (as Eric Peter Goldman)

      Performed by Electrolightz

      Courtesy of The LA Outfit

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    User reviews31

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    3/10
    Let's play the "I hate women" game
    One must give longtime parody directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer some credit for branching out into new territory with their latest film, Best Night Ever. Being that the duo has grossed millions upon millions of dollars with each abysmal parody film after another, the duo had really no reason to stray from their niche; they found something that worked and made them a great deal of money each time. Why become diverse when they've already stuck gold? But randomly and all of a sudden, a film by the name of Best Night Ever was thrown into production by them, a raunchy comedy centered on an all female cast of characters who are hitting Las Vegas for their one friend's bachelorette party, which turns into a messy state of affairs after they are robbed for their money, purses, shoes, and their jewelry, including ones expensive wedding ring.

    What ostensibly would play like an exciting and fun romp akin to Bridesmaids, or even The Hangover, however, turns overly-crass, shamelessly raunchy without even a hint of wit or subtlety, and exhausting by the thirty minute mark. As someone who was slightly (but cautiously) optimistic about how Friedberg and Seltzer's style of comedy would be conducted for a film wasn't a competition for references, I was disappointed (but unsurprised) that their humor outside of overcompensating references is largely predicated off of grotesque shock humor, where the female characters say and do the most revolting things in hopes they are funny enough for the audience. Lines like "My g-string is like a slip and slide" and witnessing a woman urinate and defecate on an innocent man's face is what we have to succumb to watching Best Night Ever.

    The four female leads have almost no personality, so why refer to them by their names? Let's call them what they are; The Bride-to-Be (Desiree Hall), The Uppity Sister of the Bride-to-Be (Samantha Colburn), The Obnoxious Best Friend of the Bride-to-Be (Eddie Ritchard), and The Lewd and Dirty-Mouthed Friend of the Bride-to-Be (Crista Flanagan) all set out to have a fun girls night out, filming their travels thanks to the help of a hand-held camera. After The Obnoxious Best Friend of the Bride to Be tries to make a cocaine deal after the girls get kicked out of a strip club, the quartet of girls are robbed for everything they have and must find a way to get money in the heartland of Vegas so they can return home.

    It's a tad frightening how much Friedberg and Seltzer seem to hate their female characters. The movie predicates itself off of showing them getting into trouble, being entirely irresponsible, childish, petty, and downright annoying, with consequences to their behavior at every turn that are ugly and downright cruel. Think Spring Breakers with none of the social commentary nor insights; this is true bad behavior on display with nothing significant to say at all.

    The film is almost entirely comprised of scenes involving total hell breaking loose, chaotic parties, and the girls racing from place to place in a stolen limo. The editing here, is disastrous, with the hand-held-camera being another useless gimmick, and cuts, shots, and entire sequences being assembled in an incoherent order. The entire cut-and-paste editing job here fails to give the scenes in the film any feelings of placement and basic structure and, in turn, we get a cacophony of madness in the sound and editing department.

    Speaking of sound, in addition, towards the second and third act, almost the entirety of character dialog is comprised of obnoxious screaming, yelling, and exhaustive, high-pitched noise. This style is absurd and annoying, especially when one realizes this is what the film substituted actual character development for.

    What we have here, in summation, is an attempt at something "new" for the directors that revolves around making female characters look disturbingly irresponsible and juvenile, characters who don't even deserve an assigned name, repetitive and downright unfunny shock humor, awful editing, and a script where about two-thirds of the lines of dialog are written out as *high-pitched screams from all the girls.* It almost becomes bad enough to the point where saying that the film is better than Friedberg and Seltzer other films isn't even an accurate statement.

    Starring: Desiree Hall, Samantha Colburn, Eddie Ritchard, and Crista Flanagan. Directed by: Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer.
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    • Apr 10, 2014

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      • December 26, 2013 (United States)
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