Birthday
2018 · 10m · USA
Directed by Tynan DeLong
Genres: comedy
Two grown men compete to be the most childish at a friend's birthday party, their juvenile escalation grating against everyone else's barely-contained exasperation.
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DeLong understands that arrested development isn't a character flaw to be cured — it's the whole comic engine. Refreshingly unredemptive.
DeLong weaponizes male regression instead of finding it charming — two grown men competing to be the most childish, with everyone else doing the comedy of exasperation. Cleanly executed bit.
Two grown men competing to be the most childish at a birthday party — Tynan DeLong weaponizing male regression rather than pretending it's charming is a good adjustment, but at ten minutes the bit needs to land sharp.
Reviews
Director Tynan DeLong, known for his gloriously adolescent dispatches from Brooklyn apartments, has crafted his most adolescent yet, aimed directly at the stupid teenage boy in all of us.