Excellent, Without a doubt!!

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Shane Dawson did a great job on this movie. I watched 'The Chair' and you can see how much dedication and soul he put into this movie. All the negativity he's been getting is completely unnecessary. He's been working for his reputation for 8 years now online. He gained all of his fans by himself and I can't see way people can't see that. The movie is Shane completely. If you've seen his videos you'd understand. He's made comedies like this his whole life. He's made a living on YouTube and he's not gonna give up on his dreams no matter how much criticism he gets. He's dealt with negativity his whole life and he's not gonna let a few bad reviews stop him. It's not the end of Shane just yet. Trust me.

Ugh. I wanted this movie to be good. I always want Youtube movies to be good, because I know how hard some people work to do so. I suppose I should begin saying that I am not a fan of Shane Dawson, I can see the appeal (he sure is a looker)but is he funny? Let's get back to the movie. It's awful. I saw this after Hollidaysburg and this one was blown out of the water, hell it wasn't even in the water in the morning. Where the casting and characters of Hollidaysburg worked because of the chemistry and depth the actors were able to bring to the roles. And while it had pacing issues, Not Cool has no pacing. It starts, it ends, I feel dirty for watching it, I get a shower(x9). It doesn't help either that the characters and actors were awful. OK I should amend that. The girl playing Tori is OK and by far the best actor in the movie. Hollidaysburg, while unfunny at times, knew where to draw the line. Something Shane Dawson has never known. And I'm not opposed to shock humor, but goddam! IT has to be funny! Just because you can have a script that says (Mock minority to a theater of laughing fools) doesn't mean you can make a movie. Never since Transformers 3 have I felt like the smartest person in a room. This movie never shuts up either. It's having a moment-oh sorry we have to make fun of gay people again! Don't see this movie, it will only encourage the people who made this.

A movie like this to me can be almost completely described by the words minimized comedy. The movie can be minimized, and you doing another task completely while it is playing, and you won't miss too much. You will still get the same giggles, from off colored remarks, as you probably would anyway with watching. As for missing any plot relevant information, because you aren't paying full attention, there is no worry. The writing is laughable. The most typical of typical bollywood comedy love stories. The female lead actress was the most entertaining in the group, while she was still lacking. I believe this was much due to the poor writing though. Even, Drew Monson, the person whom I was enlightened to this movie because of, done quite poor in my opinion. Once again I believe much in due to poor writing, but much more due to lack of experience acting in this case. Shawn Dawson is just a bad actor, I believe, and not near as pretty as he thinks he is. Some of the jokes in this film were just childish, or nothing aside from offensive. Things I would have laughed at, at around the age of 12 and maybe not then some of the time.

First let me say this, I had no idea who Shane Dawson was prior to watching The Chair on Starz. I very much enjoyed the entire series and watching how these films actually come together and get made. I respect Shane Dawson and the fact that he stayed true to his goal of targeting a certain demographic and making no apologies about making a movie for his target fans. This "vision" he had for this movie and his target audience both helped and hurt him. It held him back in the holly wood aspect, but helped him in the actual theaters because his fans showed up for him (only when he was actually making a personal appearance),and helped him win the grand prize. Lets be clear, I've seen both movies, and Hollidaysburg is definitely the better movie in every way. Hollidaysburg has mass appeal where as Shanes movie will have a much more difficult time finding an audience that likes it outside the 12-17 y.o girl demographic.The first mistake of this movie (which sinks it from jump street) is the total miscasting of the Lead Character. Shane decided he would be the lead for this movie and play a character that's suppose to have been the really cool popular guy in his high school. Prom King and all around ladies man that every girl had a crush on. REALLY? This was a HUGE ego driven mistake that really affected the movie. Shane is in no way believable as the "cool guy". He's not good looking or masculine enough, he certainly doesn't have the voice or the style to pull this off ,and his energy is just kind of feminine IMO. The whole cutting the hair storyline only works if your hair is cool to begin with. I guess in the teen world a red haired Beiber cut is cool? So Because Shane's role as the cool guy is in no way convincing it takes away from the Chemistry between him and the female Lead(Cherami Leigh) Tori. This makes the main storyline between Scott and Tori not very believable from jump street.The second miscasting is Drew Monson as Joel. Although I believe Drew is immensely talented as an actor he's in no way right for this role. He's supposed to be the guy that went away to college and became a kind of a pimp with lots of action from the women in college. He comes back to the burg and wants to land his high school crush Janie(Michelle Veintimilla) as his girl.The problem again lies in the fact that Joel (Drew Monson) has very little if any Masculine energy AT ALL. Maybe its just me, but from his energy and presence I find it hard to believe that Joel (Drew Monson)is not gay. He's putting his hair behind his ear with two fingers every ten seconds in the movie, and his hanging hand gestures just read feminine/gay all day long. So even though the interactions between Joel and Janie are hilarious at times , its just not believable because of the Chemistry, or lack of.Cherami Leigh as Tori is brilliant, as are the rest of the cast in the female roles.Lisa Schwartz's role as Tori's blind sister Marissa was AWESOME. She really brought her A game to her role and I was left wanting more from her and Tori's interactions. As for the humor in the movie and all the talk about offensive material and politically incorrect , blah blah blah. The humor is no more offensive then any other film with this type of humor. Its blatant in your face over the top slapstick comedy with stereotypes and politically incorrect overly sexual information technology driven satire. This kind of humor resonates with today's youth and even managed to get a few chuckles out of me.The bottom line is this, If it not for the miscasting of the main characters Shane actually could have this movie much better. His off the wall you tube characters were pretty funny and the actual storyline or plot of the movie were not bad. Its the execution that came out bad. Wrong casting, not enough character development between Scott and Tori. We get no real vested insight into to Scott's Psyche besides the fact that you GET NO idea who Scott's original girlfriend is that broke up with him at the start of the movie. Why would "The most popular cool guy in high school" have ever wanted to be with a total psycho dumb over top type chick. Remember that the premise here is that Scott is supposed to be hurt from the breakup and Discovers Tori by accident Literally. The comparisons to 16 candles and other teen comedies that were hugely popular really don't have any place here. Those movies were cast perfectly and all had a very clear and defined storyline with really great character development that helped you buy in. NOT-COOL has none of that going for it with exception to some of the less important female roles.Shane stuck to his vision and demographic, and came out with a seriously flawed movie that only appeals to his core fans. Although talented He missed a real opportunity to gain some mass appeal and make a teen comedy that could have gained him some real recognition as a filmmaker who is serious about telling stories to a broad audience.