Whipped 2000, Rated R Columbia/Tristar Home Video

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Starring Amanda Peet, Brian Van Holt, et al. Released to DVD on February 6, 2001.

Films like Whipped are the heroin and crack of the movie industry. These films (like Kids or Your Friends and Neighbors) are the supposed critical darlings that are slowly and steadily bringing down Hollywood from the inside. The movies themselves are incendiary, envelope-pushing dramas that often feature lead characters that are created, written and directed to provoke controversy. There are two problems with this kind of filmmaking: 1) the characters aren't often very real--they are mostly amalgamations of many different persons' worst traits and 2) it's very easy to do. Thus, when I screened Whipped, I didn't see four male friends who met to discuss their previous nights' dates and sexual experiences, I saw four completely fictional male chauvinists who treated women like objects so that staid American audiences could gasp and decry the younger generation as having hit rock-bottom. Which the younger generation actually hasn't. Watching these boys change their songs upon all individually meeting beautiful brunette, Mia (Amanda Peet) didn't make the gender gap displa.html>spla.html>spla.html>spla.html>splayed here any easier to swallow or enjoy.