The FP
Drafthouse Films | Release Date: March 16, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
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3
Mixed:
5
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMar 15, 2012
Think of The FP as the occasion for a party. You need to find a room full of people who get the joke and see this movie there, because audiences will be laughing so hard they'll be screaming. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianShawn LevyMar 15, 2012
The film is amped up to insanity in its language (both verbal and cinematic), in its ironic embrace of teen-salvation movie clichés, and in its depiction of a small town as a ghetto hell. But just when you think they've gone too far, the Trost brothers 1) go further and 2) wink. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovMar 14, 2012
Quite likely the most original dance film you'll see this year, The FP is awash in silliness that probably took ages to script, but the film's goofy heart and soul (yes, it has one) is what sticks with you in the end and makes this crazed film into a potential cult-movie masterpiece. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubScott TobiasMar 14, 2012
The FP feels like a junky, disposable lark, created for a midnight audience to swallow, belch, and forget about the next morning. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMar 24, 2012
This one's just OK, but at midnight, after who knows what, OK might be enough. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAndy WebsterMar 15, 2012
The film has an effective synthesizer score by George Holdcroft. It also offers some funny bits (a hokey prechampionship workout montage, a ridiculous gunfight), but not enough. And for such a film, its bargain-basement production values and lack of wit unexpectedly prove a greater liability than an asset. Read full review
50
VarietyPeter DebrugeMar 12, 2012
This unabashedly derivative, vaguely post-apocalyptic riff on well-worn '80s-movie tropes plays its boilerplate premise with endearing earnestness, but runs thin in no time. Read full review
40
Village VoiceEric HynesMar 13, 2012
Infinitely better as a beer-goggled pitch than as a feature film, The FP never gets beyond the studied novelty of its own pose. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineNick SchagerMar 11, 2012
The FP has a one-note joke of a conceit, and when that runs out, it has few actual jokes to fill the humorless void. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeEthan GilsdorfMar 15, 2012
This purposefully bad dystopian gangsta drama - imagine a "Boyz 'n the Hood,'' "Mad Max,'' and "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo'' mash-up - simply fails. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMar 16, 2012
The FP so desperately wants to be cultishly admired for its bad-taste rollout of wacko characters, ugly costumes and vulgar slang that it forgets to be genuinely offbeat or funny. Read full review
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