Intensity	Stupidity:Nudity Ratio 7:7	Budget Medium

The story is told entirely in flashback as the first thing we see is Walter (Eric Fagundes) attempting to bury a cell phone that is talking to him. It turns out that Walter was given the phone by his dad (Robert Donovan). Apparently Dad has some connection with some secret military or high tech organization because the phone has a lot of nifty features. It can take pictures, make calls and has access to pretty much every database there is. In order to escape the normal teenage nerd household (obnoxious brother and his hot girlfriend, Stepford wife mom and a Dad prone to odd reminiscing), Walter goes to visit his best buddy Agatha (Julia Lehman) who looks a lot like a young Meg Ryan. Agatha has found the aforementioned pendant and is trying to figure out how it works. When she is called into the house by her stepmom, Walter's new phone figures out what the device is for, how to make it work and how to do what it does. Suddenly there are clouds in the sky and Walter and his phone are struck by lightning. No rain, no dark skies, just a bolt out of the clear blue sky. If you can buy into lightning ignoring buildings, telephone poles and nearby trees to hit a kid with a cell phone, then you should have no problem with what comes next.

Instead of being destroyed by the lightning, the phone is now working at "150%". I personally would have gone for a much higher number, after all the phone can now control people's actions. Makes you wonder what it could do before. Anyway, after the usual discovery dialog, Walter gets down to usual B movie hijinks you would expect. Soon people are taking their clothes off, clucking like chickens and talking like French Maids. All Walter has to do is have his phone call the victim's phone. Though I do have to wonder, one of the people he calls is a girl lying on the beach. Which database did the phone consult to get her phone number? A nd if there is a database that keeps track of hot girls in bikinis, I wouldn't mind helping to update it.

These side trips are one of the things that Kanefsky does well. The basic story is painfully obvious. We know what is going to happen to all of the main characters. Trying to stretch that out to feature film length is a really bad idea unless you have a few distractions for your audience. Kanefsky likes to use nudity and physical comedy, frequently at the same time. Julia Lehman, Sierra Edwards, and Eric Fagundes all do a great job hamming it up; rolling their eyes, letting their shoulders sag, doing double takes, playing to the cheap seats. Kanefsky also throws in a little dig at web cams and reality TV shows. The house next to where our hero lives is full of Playpen models who lounge around in the underwear all day under the watchful eyes of video cameras. Kanefsky has a pretty good sense of timing and these scenes rarely drag on too long. Frequently when a director realizes that his script is too short, he will put filler in. This is most often done by showing characters driving cars, parking cars, getting into cars, getting out of cars, etc. Here the story is padded out with silly pranks. Walter never really does anything too bad and nothing he does is mean spirited.

All in all the tone of the movie is light and enjoyable. Everyone, including our heroes, is a bit of an asshole without being a complete jerk. This makes the pranks easier to take and our leads easier to forgive. Don't think that there is anything deep or insightful about this movie, it is low brow humor all the way. But if you can let yourself enjoy some dumb jokes and gratuitous nudity, this is worth watching.

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