Neither as subversively fun as last year’s mega-destructive Project X, nor as creative as The Hangover (on which these co-directors broke through as screenwriters), this further instalment in the Generation Y-acting-badly genre serves as a distinctly average placeholder. Two best friends turn into the angel and the devil on the shoulders of their straight-A buddy (Justin Chon), about to come of legal drinking age. During their wild night, the pleasures run along the typical hetero-douche-bag axis: breaking into a sorority, upchucking during a mechanical bull ride, etc. Still, watch your bro-based audience squirm when two of our heroes are forced to lock lips, then take a stroll across campus nude except for carefully placed tube socks.

Joshua Rothkopf

From Time Out New York

Dir Jon Lucas, Scott Moore, category IIB, 93 mins, opens on Thu May 23