Gimmicky, psychedelic, faux-Sixties tale of youthful growing-pains that focuses on sexual jealousy with a dash of White supremacism. The style veers between Bollywood, Western comic strips and primitive computer games' consoles. Overall, this is a limited theme with limited ambitions and limited results: After a while it all becomes rather repetitive and one-note.
Youthful sexual exploration is presented as proceeding deeper into the heart of a computer game via increasingly-difficult levels of play. The problem here is that the irony and self-reflexivity is laid on so thick that it creates a barrier between the audience and the emotional drama; making the drama affectively flat. The performances are excellent but never escape the trap of a narrative obsessed with artifice over and above simple storytelling. In truth, this film has little more to say about adolescence than a pop video. The girls are all cute but this ends up being imaginative tedium with clever set-pieces and special effects. Proof that comic adaptations rarely great movies make: Rare exceptions are Batman Begins and American Splendor.
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