Contrived. It's "Donnie Darko" plus "American Beauty" plus "Stepford Wives" as seen through the filter of EVERY TEEN ANGST MOVIE EVER MADE. To say it's completely unique and original is to be very forgiving. Oddball characters, doing oddball things, making oddball, out-of-place comments can be entertaining if executed properly, but it has to have a point. What's the point here? Parents don't listen to their kids. It seems to me Colombine cleared that up just fine. What you are left with after that is performance art. You know those edgy artists that smear poop on a canvas and sell it for $250,000.00 to deep, edgy, art connoisseurs? If you happen to mention that this "artwork" is nothing more than pointless poop-on-a-wall, then you must be a fool who "doesn't get it", right? Poop on a wall. The upside is that the performances are very engaging, it had effective tempo, great editing and Camilla Belle is hot. This movie wasn't bad. It just wasn't new either. It didn't take the risks of Napolean Dynamite or have the resonance of Eternal Sunshine, so let's not get all uppity. See it, don't smear it.
Review of The Chumscrubber
