A high school comedy about a group trying to lose their virginity, except it's from the girl's point of view. Some interesting stuff and some not so interesting. Stars Tania Raymonde (Alex on Lost), Rumer Willis and Kristin Cavallari. Also Rob Scheider as a dad.
The story: three high school seniors who are still virgins find out their football boyfriends are only dating them to put them in a bang book and decide to get back at them
Was it good?
Um, kind of yeah. It isn't all good. Some of this movie is horrible. Like the football game which looks like about five guys and no fans and is one of the most Ed Wood things I've ever seen. Also, the idea of these guys and the bang book (you have to have sex with the girls or the football team will be bad) doesn't make sense. Also, if the football team is so bad then why would the girls like these guys anyway. And the whole part with the girls finding the book and trying to get back at the guys, etc, was all pretty dumb.
So how was it still (a little) good? Well, the movie does one interesting thing -- it takes a lot of time to talk about sex and a lot of it is done in a way that actually feels honest. One of the girls is making a doc about sex and interviewing students, so you get clips of people talking about their first time, was it good, how did it happen, etc. The other thing is that it focuses on these three girls and shows them in a way that you don't see that often -- girls who want sex. They might have the wrong idea (that the first time will be the most romantic night ever) or they might go about things wrong, but focusing on young girls' curiousity and yearning and perceptions of sex is something that I'm not sure I've seen before, and certainly never seen in a way that felt quite as honest and matter of fact as this.
It's a shame the movie doesn't do a better job with story -- both in avoiding a lot of the stupid elements of the film and in actually trying to have something to say about girls and sex (or something to say to girls about sex) that isn't empty or cliche. If it had done that it really could have actually been something special. As it is there was enough to recommend it (slightly), but with lots of caviats and only to people who think a version of American Pie from a girl's POV might be interesting.
*** SLIGHT RECOMMEND (as an American Pie from a girl's POV) ****
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