GUILTY VIEWING PLEASURES:
Neil Patrick Harris
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Character Observations:
Arnold Mosk is a twerp. We're supposed to find him sympathetic (bad home life, escape through drugs, thrown in with dangerous teen criminals), but he comes off as an annoying little rich kid instead. He quotes Shakespeare by heart, disparages his school psychologist (the only adult that thinks he shouldn't be serving time in the "Animal Room"), mocks his former best friend Gary, and harangues his mother for drunkenly greeting his friend in her own house. And then he tries to kill himself. Lovely.
Actor Observations:
I like Neil Patrick Harris, and have ever since Doogie Howser M.D. (and how sad is it that every article written about him brings up this piece of fluff show from the 80's?). He was great in Harold and Kumar and utterly fantastic in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. In Animal Room? Not so much. It's not that he's doing a bad job of acting - far from it. It's just that it was a strange choice to make as his first foray into adult films: the LSD-tripping kid who messes with the wrong crowd.
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