"Smosh: The Movie" Trailer: This Is The Closest We've Gotten To A Millennial Auteur

Alo Party Peoples.

If there's one thing I'll admit is a real downside to the Digital Age and the democratization of information, it's that it has greatly reduced the value of that information. The prime example is probably still books. The printing press made the written word accessible to the common man, rather than just the nobility and the clergy, and the worthy price paid was that once anyone can write a book, you eventually end up with Divergent.

The same thing happened with film-making and YouTube. Now pretty much anyone with a cellphone can try their hand at film making, but now doing so is far less special. "If everyone's super, no one is."

This trailer for Smosh: The Movie, based off of a long running online sketch comedy show of the same name, is exactly what you would expect from a broader, dumber version of something that was already pretty broad and dumb to begin with.

This is the digital age equivalent of Cool as Ice or Freddy Got Fingered, taking some inane fad that infatuates the youth and only works (relatively speaking) in its native medium (music, television, online video) and forcing it into a format that it just can't work in.

As for Smosh specifically, it looks pretty bad. Online video is already a medium dominated by people that never quite grew up, you could even say that it is the Millennial Medium in the worst possible way. So it's not a surprise that the plot of Smosh: The Movie, which seems to involve the titular comedy duo leaping into YouTube to pull a video down from the inside, feels like something thought up by a hyperactive fifth-grader, right down to the juvenile humor and amateur - even for an indie production - effects work. This hits theaters on July 23rd, and it's sad to think that this is as close as we've gotten to a Millennial auteur.

Have a nice day.

Greg.B