Seeing "House of Wax"

Mer and I went to see "House of Wax" on Friday and it actually was not as bad as I'd thought it was going to be.
Here's the evening:
1) We were walking to the theater to buy our tickets when a group of 12-year-old skater boys and 12-year-old Paris Hiltons were wandering around in the parking lot with the friendly flirting, the way kids do at that age. One of the girls kicked one of the boys, who started yelling about getting his clothes dirty. He ran to Meredith, butt first: "Look! Are there footmarks on my butt?"
2) After we got our tickets, we went to Romano's a pizza place that also has a bar in it, to get properly socially lubricated to see the movie. It was nice to sit and talk to each other and not worry about impressing strangers. The big bummer: Our waitress had three guys dine and dash on her. The interesting thing: Instead of a Jager bomb, she served us Crown Royal bombs (they didn't have Jager). It was OK, not great, but not the worst POS drink I've ever had.
3) Theater employees were checking IDs at the door, and holding some boys who couldn't produce ID back from the theater entrance ... and fighting with the theater dude about getting into the theater. I just looked at the guy and said, "Can I just go in?" and he waved me by. Meredith said she did the same thing, and the kids started complaining.
4) The movie was OK, better acting than necessary (except for Paris Hilton, whose acting was about at the level for a crappy horror film). Chad Michael Murray actually has discernable acting skill (I'd never seen him in anything before, so, nice surprise!), and I liked (dork that I am) that he and Elisha Cuthbert (cast as twins) actually resemble each other (similar noses, eyes and lips - though her lips are much fuller). What I didn't like: The unnecessary addition of a subplot where Paris' character thinks she's pregnant and hasn't told the boyfriend. What exactly is the point of that? It doesn't exactly add depth to the character.
5) FUNNY!: After Elisha Cuthbert's character falls into a pit of blood and roadkill while she and Paris Hilton are walking through the forest, the men come to the rescue. They pull Elisha out of the pit, trying to help clean her up. Then, for no real reason, the camera cuts to Paris and her boyfriend, who asks her, "Are you alright?" to which she so cleverly responds, "Uh-huh." And then during Paris Hilton's strip tease (which looks more like swaying and disrobing to music), a boy in front of us opened his camera phone to take pics of it.