Oh shit! Three of the most popular high-school aged boys have been attacked! The victims were all on the receiving end of a plastic bag, filled with “turd”, hurled straight into their faces. The M.O. of the attacker appears to be that he attacks only between the hours of 9pm – 10pm, uses a yellow plastic bag filled with human feces, and picks out only the most popular boys from different high schools. With each successive attack, interest in the attacks grows like wildfire among the high school kids. In a odd twist of fate, the victims of the attacks become instant celebrities on the internet and at their respective schools.

A popular webpage devoted to the mysterious attacks predicts that the next logical target will be Neul Paran High School. At Neul Paran high School there isn’t one easily identifiable “pretty” boy, but the students there are soon whipped into a frenzy trying to figure out who could be the next victim. The most likely targets are : Si-Won (super smart class president), Kang-In (Judo team captain), and Hee-Chul (dance team member). With the likelihood that the next “pretty boy” will receive even more attention, all three of these potential victims vie to become the next victim of the attacks on the pin-up boys.

That sure is a crazy set-up and the movie did a good of job playing off that crazinesses. There probably should have been a disclaimer in the beginning of the film, stating something along the lines of “Warning! Humor is incredibly low-brow, brain damage may occur!”. Even with that low brow type of humor, I did find the movie to be absolutely hilarious at times. There were at least four or five laugh out loud funny moments in the film and one such moment took me by such surprise that I ended up slobbering all over myself. Oops.

I didn’t think I would ever say this about a Korean film, but my biggest complaint about “Attack on the Pin-up Boys” would be that the film was just too short. Only 81 minutes long, but feels even shorter because the final five minutes consists of a closing song & dance sequence. Furthermore, as good as the setup of the movie was, the film resolved itself way too easily. A simple “aha…it was you?” kind of moment revealed the entire mystery behind the poo thrower - somewhere around the hour mark into the film. I did have to wonder to myself if the filmmakers were short on money and maybe that’s why they concluded the film in such a brisk and simplistic manner.

With that stated, there are still a lot of positive things about “Attack on the Pin-up Boys”. The set-up is entirely unique and the film is able to successfully bring to light how absurd celebrity status can really be. The film also brings into play other current hot topics that younger people can relate to : social networks, internet and the desire for peer acceptance. “Attack on the Pin-up Boys” certainly won’t make you re-evaluate the meaning of life, but it will provide for at least an hour of laughs and intrigue. It’s just to bad the film resolved itself so quickly, otherwise “Attack on the Pin-up Boys” would have been one of the better cult films for this year. Oh well, you still have a darn funny movie…for at least an hour.