I can't say that I was exactly harboring the biggest of expectations to the 2024 comedy "Prom Dates" from writer D. J. Mausner and director Kim O. Nguyen when I stumbled upom it by random chance. And with it being a movie that I had never heard about, much less ever watched, then of course I opted to sit down and give the movie a fair chance.
The storyline in the movie was adequate. It was, however, a somewhat generic storyline. It wasn't as if writer D. J. Mausner was reinventing the young adult comedy genre here with this movie. That being said, don't get me wrong, becuase "Prom Dates" certainly was a watchable and entertaining enough movie, if you happen to like this particular genre of movies.
"Prom Dates", however, was somewhat devoid of comedy, and I wasn't brought to laughs a single time throughout the course of the 86 minutes that the movie ran for. So, as for this movie being a comedy, well, no, not so much really. This was more of a movie about coming of age and a movie about friendships.
I wasn't familiar with a single actress or actor on the cast list, except for actor John Michael Higgins. The actors and actresses did good jobs in bringing their characters and the storyline to life on the screen.
This is not a movie that will find its way back to my screen a second time, as the movie was a bit too generic for my liking, and the lack of comedy just was somewhat disappointing.
My rating of director Kim O. Nguyen's 2024 movie "Prom Dates" lands on a five out of ten stars.
