CHRIS Klein and Freddie Prinze Jr. play boring losers trying to make it in show business in “New York City Serenade,” one of those pointless indies that you’ll have forgotten before the credits roll.
Klein’s character, a drummer in a bar band, is a chatty alcoholic who is forever telling his more uptight best bud (Prinze), an aspiring filmmaker, to kick back. Prinze replies that his pal should grow up. They drink, squabble, mistreat their women (the wannabe cineaste is engaged to a girl played by Jamie-Lynn Sigler of “The Sopranos”) and take a trip to a film festival, where the fast-talking Klein scores a suite at the Four Seasons.
Filmmaker Frank Whaley’s staggering lack of insight, imagination and wit reaches Ed Burns proportions in a limp, low-energy take on “Withnail & I.”
Running time: 103 minutes. Rated R (adult situations, drug use, profanity). At the Cinema Village, 12th Street, east of Fifth Avenue.