"First Date" is a deceptively fun movie that is a fresh take on the coming-of-age teen rom-coms genre. Main character Mike is swept along by his hilarious best friend Brent into buying a used car for his titular first date with love interest Kelsey. This spirals into a cartoonish and funny story involving cop chases, drug smuggling, and gratuitous violence that perfectly blends parody with suspense and action . Each member of the primary cast plays their character extremely well, with each one's performance respecting the audience's time by effectively fleshing out their personalities and relevance to the overall plot. The antagonists are far from your typical moustache-twirling, blank slate criminal; in fact they felt much more colorful and comically grounded than the main character, playing into the satirical tone the writers were aiming for. Overall, this is definitely a movie worth watching, impressively so considering this was an independently produced movie, and if not for anything else, for the sake of watching it for Brent and his amazing dialogue.
Review of First Date
