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Superbad meets grossout noir, in the pulp potboiler
Catholic School coed comedy, Assassination Of A High School
President. And while channeling Chinatown's sinister sleaze
by way of South Park co-writers Tim Calpin and Kevin Jakubowski,
the movie boasts tangy teen dirty talk so thick, you could
cut it with a well sharpened pencil. Which by the way, somebody
does more than once.***
Rocket Science's Reece Thompson is Bobby Funke in Assassination
Of A High School President, a nerdy, Watergate-obsessed
aspiring ace reporter on the school newspaper and fresh
meat on the extracurricular bully circuit at St. Donovan's
Catholic School. After utterly depraved when not deviant
post-traumatized war vet from 'The Storm' Principal Kirpatrick
(Bruce Willis) discovers the SAT exams swiped from his office,
Funke gets on the case to collar the culprit, while hopefully
also spiffing up his loser image and snatching the reigning
hottie femme fatale Francesca Fachini (The O.C.'s Mischa
Barton).***
Though a little slow on the action required by the
noir genre's suspense-propelled intrique, Assassination
Of A High School President substantially compensates with
its splendidly nasty wit and stylishly murky deep throat
attitude. Including a grade school vamp kid snitch willing
to spill the beans in exchange for stuffed unicorns; a jolly
classroom priest fond of showering with the jocks in the
locker room while singing in Spanish; matriculated prescription
druglords; and chain gum-chewing gumshoes into the down
and dirty of classmates with criminal intent, when not in
pornographic detention room lockdown.***
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