The adolescents in the movie speak through so many layers of sardonic detachment that it is impossible to like them or care what decisions they end up making. Even this oldest of teen crisis gags is shrugged off with zero emotional depth, as if everything in their lives is just one big postmodern spoof that they need only respond to with the appropriate ironic youth jargon. Their sole motivation in life is to produce flippant commentary about it. It is difficult to conceive of a more profound emotional disassociation.
