I really enjoyed the film. It was witty and funny, well written. Not at all what I had expected. This movie was not about disco or clubbing. It was about the dynamics of a group of friends in a certain period and sub-culture. Brought up a lot of truths of a social group. Friends sleep with each other, date each other, back-stab, party, and so on. I also loved the satire on the prep school east coast kids snobbery. Kate B's character's ideas on dating and feminism were hilarious! Chloe was great as usual. And the men were perfectly casted. Die yuppie scum! It was a very good movie, and one of the better ones on Hulu.

I have seen both "Barcelona" and "Metropolitan", and I don't remember them being as funny as this one. Maybe it's just that I'm older and have more of a perspective on the "yuppie-angst" genre. The dialogue is all pretty low-key and reflective, but there's a searing vein of social satire in there. Stand out performances by Chris Eigeman and Kate Beckinsale, who plays a doozy of a bi-atch. Stillman's oeuvre seems to be based in the foibles and failures of the young, well-heeled white person.Warning: this movie has a lot of talking, subtle humor, and complex adult situations. And very little dancing. It is not a documentary about disco music, surprisingly. If you don't know what the implications of someone having attended an expensive school on the east coast are, you will probably be bored by this movie.

Some people seem to have had a strong negative reaction to this movie, leaving me to wonder why they continued to watch it if they found it so unsatisfying. No, it is not an adventure movie. There are no grandiose special effects. There is no predictable dialogue (which I appreciate). This movie is a character play against the backdrop of a certain period of time not to be recaptured (as this time of people's lives also cannot be recaptured). Maybe some people did not identify with the characters, but I don't think it was necessary to do so. One need not even know much about clubbing in those days or even about disco. The movie's central theme was not about disco or a deconstruction of disco, nor did it advocate disco, either as music or as a lifestyle. The movie simply portrayed rather smaller-than-life characters with somewhat larger-than-life dialogue, some of which was quite witty at times, at other times humorous and still at other times rather pedestrian. These characters were not supposed to be outstanding human beings and the actors were not there to outdo each other. The movie was in fact rather subdued (as most of real life is), and I think the actors pulled off the restraint in their deliveries needed to portray this. Chloe S. did this extremely well, even in her dancing (her character was an awful dancer). I loved the performances of Chris Eigeman (always enjoy him & I think he is extremely underrated as an actor) and of Kate Beckinsale. The viewer is left with the feeling that the times would soon be changing, as would the lives of the characters. There is a moment in most people's lives when they are 'coming of age' as adults, but still hanging out together before they drift away from each other to live more individual lives, get married, etc. The characters ARE drawn rather shallowly -- the viewer is not supposed to have a deep relationship with them, but instead gets a glimpse into a rather embryonic state of adulthood. The characters make some inevitable infantile mistakes, but it's okay (except for some ramifications, like what 'Alice' is left with) because they are young and starting out, and so not much more is to be expected of them. I enjoyed the repartee of the characters and watching their reactions to events in their lives, no matter how trite these events were. The film portrays a rather 'innocent' part of life, though against what was admittedly quite a decadent atmosphere (which lends a bit of dissonance to the film). But, that is how it felt in those days -- AIDs hit the scene big time the morning after the time portrayed here. Death of Disco almost equals Death of Innocence, in this sense, and so walking along with these characters at this time of their life is a bittersweet and charming experience. I enjoyed this movie.

It does show a real side to the 80's club scene and people in this movie do hang in small groups because nobody can stand them. It goes on for way too long and it does not make any sense beacsue nothing really happens except for the bust in the end but that has nothing to do with story. If you like disco or clubing then watch it, if not watch another low grade movie Hulu has to offer.

I'll watch anything with Chloe in it... This was mildly entertaining, but held together by way too much "waxing philosophical" that came off as contrived. The end was as stupid as disco itself and served as a reminder that Disco truly sucked and was best left behind. I just wish that rap would die and crawl under the rock from whence it came as well...Watch this if you have nothing better going on in your life.

Although I am not an avid disco fan the appreciation I have for this movie is from the appreciation I have for newer electronic music and seeing where this genre of music, as well as many others, has branched out from. Also the movies ability to show the style and ambiance of club life in the 80s and the decline of an musical era made an impact and entertained.I felt it needed more in terms of tying together that these were the last days of an musical era and more about how this effected many people past and present. Mort than the few characters in the movie. There were a couple of cuts in the movie that jumped past explanations and made it feel like it rushed over something while still seeming like a slow movie. You figure it all out but I felt it needed more.

a keenly observed, subtly accurate period piece, searingly on point yet fully imbued with the casual sophistication of the era. of course its wordy... talking was an art form then. nothing like the stunted, stilted, badly-spelled discourse of the text generation. OMG indeed. we had the most freedom, the most open-minded attitudes, the least hang-ups of any generation before or since. To say that disco music and/or the era's club denizens were vapid and self-involved is to entirely miss the point. why don't you just go blow up records at a baseball stadium amid cries of "disco sucks." of course it was simple and derivative, it was the first serious musical deconstruction of popular culture. the flip side of punk, disco had more in common with their nihilistic disdain for the status quo than the bloated metal dinosaurs or introspective prog rockers ever would. idiots. disco was the first, last and highest pinnacle of American social hegemony. the real deal live each night as if it was your last ethos. "disco is a movement?" Robert Sean Leonard's character asks early on. Of course it was. It was tribal, absolutely fundamental and presaged all the electronic music which followed. to whit, there but for the grace of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" goes every house, techno and other dance groove that followed. if disco sucked, then it sucked better than anything ever has since. and you can suck on that.