'That Awkward Moment'

The best thing about “That Awkward Moment” is it teaches us all a valuable lesson that can give some of us a lot of hope.

No matter how awful you are at acting, directing or screenwriting, you can still get work in Hollywood.

Writer and director Tom Gormican has created one of the more worthless films of the year — and it’s only February.

“That Awkward Moment” — which is an awkward title that awkwardly has nothing to do with the movie, but was a nice piece of marketing to bring more tween girls to see the
movie — is a movie built on the “Bro Code.”

Jason, Daniel and Mikey all vow to stay single, live it up and have raucous, drunken sex in order to help Mikey get over his wife cheating on him.

The only problem is the goons all fall in love with girls that are completely unbelievable, and each bro has to hide his relationship from his fellow bros.

Jason (Zac Efron) has a cutesy affair with Ellie, played by Imogen Poots, who was apparently told to play up her disheveled Scarlett Johansson look while putting on a fake Zooey Deschanel quirkiness.

The extremely un-put-together Daniel (Miles Teller) gets with his incredibly put-together best friend Chelsea (Mackenzie Davis). Mikey (Michael B. Jordan) goes back to his wife, Vera (Jessica Lucas).

All the men do shitty, misogynistic things in order to keep their relationships secret and follow the “Bro Code.” They neglect funerals, have sex in their parents’ shower during Thanksgiving and basically do anything in their power to avoid blue balls.

But after the classic rom-com truth-telling session, ensuing fight and sad montage, the ladies come flouncing back.

No matter how unlikely the pairings would be in real life, Gormican also makes sure that black people fall in love with black people and white people fall in love with white people — a tired stereotype that is painfully obvious throughout the film.

Perhaps the biggest sin Gormican commits isn’t that his movie is all-around offensive.

It’s the fact that Zac Efron didn’t offend me enough.

With a trailer in which we see Efron’s naked body horizontal on the toilet in order to combat an incident with Viagra, I was very ready to immerse myself in some eye candy. But we don’t even get that.

Efron is seen shirtless a few times and mid-coitus once, but if you were expecting some truly dirty Jake Gyllenhaal in “Love & Other Drugs”-esque material, you’ll have to turn to the Internet.

Disappointments all around.