I Just Want My Pants Back

2011

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6.4| 0h30m| en
Synopsis

I Just Want My Pants Back is an American comedy-drama that premiered with a special sneak peek on August 28, 2011 on MTV, with the series airing the new episodes beginning on February 2, 2012. The series is based on David J. Rosen's 2007 novel of the same name. On May 16, 2012, MTV cancelled the series.

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Console best movie i've ever seen.
Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.
Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
SnoopyStyle Peter Vack is the weak manchild hipster lead in an MTV series about a bunch of aimless 20something slackers. One night he had incredible sex with an amazing girl, but she steals his pants and disappears. But unlike the title 'I Just Want My Pants Back', he actually wants more than just his pants back. He wants her back, too.Kim Shaw plays a great sassy best friend. She has great chemistry as the best friend. Elisabeth Hower and Jordan Carlos play their more responsible friends. They're the most stable couple they know. It lasted 12 episodes. They made great group chemistry. That's their biggest asset.
PaulVilla If you turn off the audio, this show looks like it accurately depicts the modern generation of twenty-somethings. The settings, fashions, hair-styles & accessories all look relevant.But once you turn the audio back on, this show sounds like it was made back in the 80's or 90's. The lead characters have one-dimensional pursuits, retro dialogue & totally cynical natures...which all lead you to believe there's a generation gap.If you're in your mid-late twenties (as I am), then you're part of the most curious & engaged generation North America has ever produced. Those who live it know it, and those who don't are welcome to check academic & public opinion studies on the subject.This generation has melded sharing & consumption, vanity & morals, & the personal & the civic. They're harnessing their purchasing power to affect the way companies design & produce their products. They're harnessing the very act of being fashionable to make statements. They're harnessing their bodies to fill the ranks of NGO's & social movements like #OccupyWallStreet. And they're harnessing their online presence to push both individuals & society towards pursuing higher standards of quality.This is not the generation the show depicts.The problem seems to be the characters of Jason & Tina. Since they receive the most individual & paired screen-time, the problems surrounding their characterizations end up dragging the show down.The most obvious problem is the bizarre dialogue. Jason & Tina sound like a pair of mid-90's stand-up comics who watched way too many Woody Allen movies. They motor-mouth ridiculously long commentaries, in tones fit for staged theatre rather than naturalistic television. They also blurt out dated pop-culture references (seriously, few people my age even know who Steve Buscemi is...much less bond over him in public parks). None of this is the fault of the actors because it's impossible to deliver that sort of dialogue in any realistic manner.A bigger problem however is the one-dimensional nature of Jason and Tina. It's impossible to believe they actually grew up in the era of the internet & global awareness. Sometimes, it's even hard to believe they've lost their virginity's. They have no interest in anything...except for mating. It seems like their every word & deed is structured to remind the audience of this shallow fact.The biggest problem though, IMO, is that the writers might actually despise the very generation they're depicting. Why is it that every twenty-something character Jason & Tina come into contact with is depicted as annoying or stupid? Especially when these characters are reflective of certain mass cultural groups like hipsters, immigrants, environmentalists, & even recently lower class black kids. As Bill Maher said, these people aren't the fringe or counter-culture...they are the culture. If you don't respect them, then you don't respect us.It's sad, because the actors look good & are definitely talented. But the writers seem to be ignorant about the people they're trying to depict.
AMichaelL This show isn't ALL that bad, but it has been done before. There are 4 friends...2 are the couple, and the other 2 are good friends who are opposite sexes and will likely end up together, and then there are all sorts of random hookups and talking about them with each other, vividly, after. Big surprise, right? Another show about mostly selfish people in their 20s, who have some seemingly charming traits masking their lack of direction (e.g., "I'm going to look for her on craigslist missed connections"). EDIT: The last few episodes have improved and the characters are acting like real, young adult, human beings. It is very watchable at this point, although it has still been done before.
Steve Wolf Sharp, funny, clever show. I loved Tina and Kent the intern, both were very funny together!!! The show depicts a lot of the modern angst of 20-something kids trying to succeed in a difficult world today given career issues, down economy, looking for love, being on your own, etc. But it did so in a very sharp witted way, making it very entertaining. For example, Jason telling an elderly man sitting in a chair on the sidewalk that he has a "hot date", and the man expectorating to the ground in response--funny. You really see all the foibles of uncertain decisions made by the characters in terms of who/how to fall in love, but you are really rooting for Jason, Tina, and Kent the intern to succeed in their quests.