While there have been a bounty of live-action family films that take place over Thanksgiving and Christmas, very few try to represent realistically that most American of holidays, Halloween. The comedy “Fun Size” captures the trashiness and confusion of being swarmed not just by by greedy kids on sugar highs but also hard-partying adults living out fantasies on a night known for overindulgence and bad behavior.
Director Josh Schwartz (TV’s “The O.C.” and “Gossip Girl”) gets an innocent, innocuous performance from lovely Nickelodeon star Victoria Justice as high schooler Wren, dressed up as Dorothy and having to miss a party as she searches Cleveland for her missing little brother. The nerdy but beautiful teen with a crush on the school stud is John Hughes paint-by-numbers, but here everyone’s a bit of a freak — including Wren’s mute brother Albert and his adult best friend, Fuzzy.
Among the other grownups, Chelsea Handler brings a pathos as Wren and Albert’s mother, going through a funny-sad nervous breakdown. By the end of this romp, “Fun Size” actually accomplished something charming: sentimentality without normality.
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