The Binge (2020)
Directed by Jeremy Garelick
In the not-so-distant future, all drinking and drugs have been made completely illegal by the government, except for one night a year. High school seniors Griffin, Hags, and Andrew make a pilgrimage to get to the best party in town where all their dreams will come true. They will have to avoid their crazed principal, violent siblings, and the wild animals roaming the streets.
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It’s impossible to watch Hulu’s new “original” comedy The Binge and not think of other, very similar films, most especially Superbad and Booksmart .
"The Binge" takes that concept and puts a "Superbad"-esque spin on it, which likely sounded creative on paper.
In the one-eventful-night tradition of “ The Hangover ,” “ Superbad ” and “ Booksmart ”—all far superior movies—“The Binge” sets its sights on a duo of friends who have just turned 18 and can thus participate in their town’s biggest Binge party.
The Binge isn't exactly a parody of The Purge, limiting the connection between the two to an opening credit sequence that riffs on the memorable opening of The Purge by replacing that movie's security camera footage of violent acts with cell phone footage of frat boys doing dumb drunken stunts, and pretty quickly abandons Purge-influenced plotting in favor of a Superbad -derived plot where the boys are trying to get to a party in order to impress the girls they like.
What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: The Binge is obviously a riff on The Purge , but it’s got the DNA of other teen party movies like Superbad , Booksmart , and Blockers thrown in there, too.
Modelling itself very much on the likes of Superbad (with Franco as the McLovin’), The Binge‘s strongest asset is the comic chemistry between the two leads.
More than just a sendup of iconic excess, the “Scarface” reference is a reminder that “The Binge” is hardly the first movie to glorify outsize alcohol and drug use.
But The Binge’s bigger, better idea is that it’s also a riff on The Purge ; drinking and taking drugs is illegal except for during an annual 12-hour period, so this party isn’t just epic, but the first one these kids have ever been of legal age to experience and the only one of the year.
If you feel you’d somehow get a kick out of imagining a world of total booze-and-substance-free sobriety in the days of quarantine, then look no further than “The Binge,” a tedious and only occasionally amusing comedic riff on “ The Purge ” franchise.
The Binge , as you may be able to guess from the title, is inspired by The Purge , the horror franchise about an alternate reality where all crime is legal for one night of the year.
It's like a merging of the films The Purge (2013) and Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982).
Welcome to Hulu’s The Binge, a comedic spin on horror franchise The Purge that imagines a not-so-distant future where a modern prohibition has been implemented.
“The Binge” is a semi-parody of “The Purge,” going fully ridiculous with the original picture’s premise, which had a frustrated nation accepting a one-night stand with legal murder, permitting participants to go hog wild as the powers that be cull the herd.
We’ve seen this movie before, when it was called Project X or That Awkward Moment or 21 and Over, which were the 2010s versions of Can’t Hardly Wait and American Pie and Sixteen Candles.
The premise of The Binge is fairly simple: What if The Purge met Project X to create a teen comedy about drugs and alcohol?
Certainly, it doesn’t go into the untamed extremes of a film like Project X, but plays it softly down the middle.