Hilarious b-comedy
9/10
Author: glados from United States
31 May 2012

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

The movie starts up a bit slow but soon you're on a roller-coaster of non-stop party action -- and laughs, if you can appreciate them. It's shot in the shaky hand-held camera documentary style but it doesn't derive from it's funniness!

The story line is quite predictable but pushes it to an extreme. A few geeks throw a birthday party and not being sure if anyone shows up, they advertise it, they even have a radio spot. And then all the hell breaks loose, and instead of max 50 people, perhaps 2000 show up. Ecstasy, kegs, hot naked chicks, a stoned dog, body shots, midgets, getting laid... all the typical premises are present, but the setting takes a place in the quiet family neighborhood, burning down, overtaken by anarchy and all the while a SWAT team, cops, news... and the parents take notice ... :) Happy birthday!I loved it!

-When the camera catches the young lady urinating, she gestures for it to shoo away. According to a popular Internet rumor, the lady was urinating in a corner due to a lack of bathrooms on the set, and was irritated by this violation of her privacy. Only by paying her an extra amount of money were the editors allowed to use the footage in the film. However, her expression is ambiguous, and she almost appears to be smiling or laughing while gesturing the camera away from her body function.

-Although the party seems to have more than a thousand people attending, only around 200 extras were used during filming.

-Some of the footage was shot by the cast with cell phones, Flip, iPhone and Blackberry phones that were handed out by the crew. Over 10 hours of footage was recorded mostly due to the cast continuously recording.
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-All the teenagers including the extras, in the party were at the age of 18 or older.
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-Loosely based on the house party of Corey Worthington (Delaney) in Australia. The then-teenager posted the address of his house party on MySpace, attracting around 500 people and caused over $20,000 in property damage. His party attracted journalists and was widely disliked by the public, having been assaulted by a group of teenagers after the events.
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-Project X was a tentative title until it became official.
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-Many of the minor antics in the party were improvised by the extras, including the girl getting caught urinating because she actually had to do it.