Smiley Face (2007)
Directed by Gregg Araki
Jane, a struggling but perpetually stoned actress, has a busy day ahead. She has several important tasks on her list, including buying more marijuana. Even though she already has a good start on the day's planned drug use, she eats her roommate's pot-laced cupcakes and embarks on a series of misadventures all over Los Angeles.
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Instead, he’s working in the mode of his 2007 stoner comedy Smiley Face: maximalist performances, Pee-wee’s Playhouse production design, and a generally manic sense of humor that’s a far cry from the grungier feel of his more famous work.
Gregg Araki’s first feature in twelve years is a return to the more accessibly comic vibe of his underrated Smiley Face.
I Want Your Sex is most similar to Araki’s work in Smiley Face, with the occasional flourishes of delightful but absurd 2D animations and overexposed lighting that makes the film look more like a straight-up porno at points.
…with movies like “The Doom Generation” and “Smiley Face,”…
On the plus side, 100 percent sober when I watched it, I can say with some authority that Dylan Haggerty has written an eleventh-hour candidate for the funniest movie of 2007, that Gregg Araki has directed his finest film since 1997's Nowhere, and that Faris, flawless, rocks their inspired idiot odyssey in a virtuoso comedic turn.
The pot humor is tired, particularly when compared to 2007's underseen Anna Faris comedy "Smiley Face," but that fortunately takes a back-seat as the chase commences.
You have Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused, Gregg Araki's Smiley Face , and now David Gordon Green's Pineapple Express.
"Pineapple Express," produced by comedy kingpin Judd Apatow, may be the high-profile stoner comedy this summer.
Hence the slider quest of the first Harold and Kumar movie, or Anna Faris’ bewildering trek across Los Angeles in the unaccountably ignored Smiley Face .
Just about the only thing he’s good at is riding a Segway, and still he’s able to snag a date with that twiggy redhead from Smiley Face who refuses to buy weed from Anna Faris.