We Are Your Friends

Warner Bros. | Release Date: August 28, 2015

5.4	USER SCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 94 Ratings

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GreatMartinAug 28, 2015

This is going to be a review of two films, the first being the movie I saw on the screen called “We Are Your Friends” and the movie I was making in my head called “Wes & Zac, Where From Here?”

“We Are Your Friends” is about a DJ, his 3This is going to be a review of two films, the first being the movie I saw on the screen called “We Are Your Friends” and the movie I was making in my head called “Wes & Zac, Where From Here?”

“We Are Your Friends” is about a DJ, his 3 friends and electric dance music, learning more about the latter than I knew or need to know but, as I have found lately with a few movies, that is more a generation gap than anything else. Incorporated into the movie is a lot of ‘eye candy’ of both sexes along with a screenplay by the director Max Joseph and Meaghan Oppenheimer based on a story by Richard Silverman. It’s an old story offering very few surprises along with an unnecessary ‘aw shucks’ moment during the end credits. Joseph does add a few musical and southern Californian collages that are eye catching and like other films recently, including last week’s “The Diary of a Young Girl” plus last year’s “Birdman”, also uses animation.

Aside from his good looks Efron hasn’t impressed me yet with his acting though to be fair I have only seen him in 3 films and he does have an impressive scene talking about how a DJ works the crowd. His friends played by Jonny Weston who wants to be a club promoter, actor and drug dealer played by Shiloh Fernandez and Alex Shaffer as the hanger on nerd offer good support. Wes Bentley is a has-been DJ living off his past and has a younger girlfriend, Emily Ratajkowski, with the latter basically in the pretty girl role.

“We Are Your Friends” was an interesting movie from the point of view I knew nothing about how electronic computer music is made and, of course, nothing wrong with eye candy. It was also interesting for the ‘second movie’ I watched in my head.

When I saw Wes Bentley, September, 1999, when he was 21, in “American Beauty” I walked out thinking “Wow! This is the next generation’s Kevin Spacey!” For the next decade he descended into the world of drugs admitting he made movies only to make money for drugs. He is 37 today, has been clean since 2009 and between his appearance in a Broadway play in 2010 and playing Seneca Crane in “The Hunger Games” in 2012 he has been working his way back but he lost the momentum of stardom that pursued him 16 years ago.

Zac Efron had his breakout role in “High School Musical” in 2006 followed by the movie version of the Broadway musical “Hairspray” when he was 19 and 20. In 2013 at the age of 26 it was reported that he completed an alcohol and substance abuse program. Now at 28 will he have a decade unlike the one Bentley had? Did Wes talk to Zac and give him advice and/or did Zav ask Wes what happened and how could he avoid the same mistakes?

Now that’s a film I would like to see---and make!… Expand

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HaithamBAug 30, 2015

Featuring stellar performances but uneven drama, We Are Your Friends might be the perfect end-of-summer story, yet it suffers from card-board cutout, insufferable characters.

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LamontRaymondSep 1, 2015

Not a bad movie at all - just one lacking any serious ambition. I enjoyed it, but on a very modest level. Ratakowski and Efron are terrific as the leads, actually. It doesn't try to be anything more than what it is.

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zNeverSleepingOct 7, 2020

Eu sinto que aqui há um potencial muito desperdiçado, sendo uma experiencia entre erros e acertos que não conseguem levar o longa até onde ele precisa.

O filme gira em torno de 3 personagens, e os demais secundários não tem uma importânciaEu sinto que aqui há um potencial muito desperdiçado, sendo uma experiencia entre erros e acertos que não conseguem levar o longa até onde ele precisa.

O filme gira em torno de 3 personagens, e os demais secundários não tem uma importância tão significante. O filme tenta significar cada um, e por mais que o resultado seja satisfatório, ele não faz sentido, soando forçado. O personagem de Zac Efron é negligenciado no desenvolvimento, o que destoa do senso de empatia necessário para fazer o final do filme se tornar único e tocante - como planejado. Wes Bentley se encontrou bem no personagem, convencendo e tendo um desenvolvimento mais significativo do que o próprio protagonista.

A cinematografia é simples. Não há muito bem direção de arte afiada, o que considero interessante para um filme do gênero, ainda mais com desenvolvimento direto sendo negligenciado. As posição das câmeras lembra uma serie de tv convencional.

E no final de tudo, a influencia da musica sobre tudo aquilo não é o suficiente para tocar o público. Nós, apaixonados por musica, sabemos muito bem da tamanha influencia que ela tem sobre nossas vidas, mas o filme não consegue chegar lá, mesmo tendo um plot ok - que infelizmente se perde um pouco com o tempo, visto que a técnica de usar elementos cotidianos já é demasiadamente usada, apenas com algumas aplicações inteligentes em gêneros específicos.

Audio: English, with Portuguese subtitles. Q60T 50' TV Speakers [Dolby 5.1]
Quality: 1080p SDR [Netflix]… Expand

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TVJerryAug 31, 2015

Zac Efron plays an eager DJ, who's trying to break into the hot LA scene of electronic music. He hangs with his boys, hits the dance parties and enjoys the inevitable drugs (highlighted by a cool animated trip). The filmmakers have gone forZac Efron plays an eager DJ, who's trying to break into the hot LA scene of electronic music. He hangs with his boys, hits the dance parties and enjoys the inevitable drugs (highlighted by a cool animated trip). The filmmakers have gone for the MTV audience with a playful structure, quick cuts, on-screen graphics and plenty of EDM (most of which didn't stand out). The plot is completely useless and the performances don't add much value. Scenesters will either rave (pun intended) or scoff at the shameless pandering.… Expand