Project X, review - Telegraph Dir: Nima Nouizadeh. Starring: Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper, Jonathan Daniel Brown Project X's title has no bearing on its premise: a teenage house party in a quiet Californian suburb that spirals out of control. Nor is it connected to the 1987 film of the same name in which Matthew Broderick rescues a band of tormented chimpanzees, unless perhaps the chimpanzees wrote it. Shot in the 'found footage" style that has proved popular for horror and science fiction, the film has supposedly been pieced together from amateur clips recorded by partygoers on their video cameras and mobile phones. Given the frequent use of slow motion and underwater photography, these must be some pieces of kit. The teenage hosts are three friends played by screen newcomers Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper and Jonathan Daniel Brown, who are slightly reminiscent of the cast of Superbad, the seminal 2007 teen comedy from which Project X has learned all of the wrong lessons. Unlike Superbad's leads, these three are poisonously unpleasant, and the supposedly comedic banter between them comes off as bullying. The party itself is almost entirely plotless: it's a deafening montage of rich teenagers swallowing Ecstasy, taking their clothes off and vandalising private property, all presented with an idiotic kids-will-be-kids shrug. Overall, it's flamboyantly loathsome on every imaginable level, and a great many unimaginable ones besides.