We Are Your Friends” has its heart in the right place, and it’s shrewd and cuddly enough to get a few likes. We Are Your Friends is a beautifully absurd millennial angst fantasy, as shallow yet infectiously catchy as an EDM song. But it would be an infinitely better movie if it sustained the sort of trancelike sonic ecstasy that turns fans into fanatics. After playing a local show he meets a famous DJ who takes him under his wing. We Are Your Friends Critics Consensus. We Are Your Friends is an entertaining film, if only to pass the time. There’s the sleek, visual-format flexible manner of the filmmaking, which mixes graphic design tropes with animation and such for some of the movie’s most engaging sequences. “We Are Your Friends,” directed by Max Joseph, from a script by Joseph and Meaghan Oppenheimer (based on a story by producer Richard Silverman), makes a big deal out of “getting” EDM. Plot - We are Your Friends Review At the center of the story is Cole, an aspiring DJ, who has his friends' hope tied to him making it. We Are Your Friends follows twenty-something aspiring EDM DJ Cole Carter (Zac Effron), who roams Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley on a beat-loop of club gigs, parties and strip mall sushi joint feasts with his three boys, Mason (Jonny Weston), Ollie (Shiloh … Finding a visual equivalent for EDM (Electronic Dance Music) is a wickedly seductive temptation — not to mention building an emotional narrative around it. We Are Your Friends boasts magnetic stars and glimmers of insight, but they're lost in a clichéd coming-of-age story as programmed as the soundtrack's beats. Suffice it to say that Cole has the talent, but needs some mentorship and a "chance" to make it big.