Wick's Review

Summary - OK 2.5

Zero Motivation is a loafer’s view of army life, as embodied by the worst unit in the Israeli Army. Some girls just aren’t army-material, but that hardly matters in a country with universal service requirements.

Instead of F-Troop, think G-Troop – IDF Style.

To be fair, I’m the opposite demographic for a female-produced and focused dramedy about a bunch of coed teens and twenty-somethings. (The movie is a lot less salacious than that sentence makes it sound.)

They’re mostly mean girls, spoiled too, the kind often seen in movies, comedies especially. Self-centered and secular, they’re not fun to be around, perhaps unless you’re another disaffected girl.

That said, I can see how Zero Motivation might be big in Tel Aviv. In Silicon Valley, not so much.
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Disclosure: I stopped watching about an hour in, leaving open the possibility that Zero Motivation turned into Hail the Conquering Hero in the last reel and a half, but I doubt it.

Acting - Very Good 3.5

Film - Barely OK 2.0

Edge - Risqué 2.1

Beware a jarringly sad and violent episode in this otherwise jocular comedy.

Reality - Glib 1.3

1 Comment

• Felix Aug 29, 2015 6:02PM

  Regarding Wick’s Review
  Sounds like Mean Girls meets In the Army Now with a Full Metal Jacket scene thrown in to kill the buzz.

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