I guess it is funnier if you're American...

Rating: Null/10 (12 August 2001)

By "American", of course, I mean your attitude towards sex and sexuality is more tightly wound up than that of Fred Nile or Pat Robertson. It would be much easier to relate to this film under those circumstances than say, if you and your girlfriend were having threesomes with her best friend once a month by the time you were seventeen. It's a little harder to sympathise with the characters of this film if you happen to fit that profile.
The saving grace of the film, of course, is the characters. In spite of them being pulled from something Pat Robertson might have read as a boy, they are genuinely sympathetic and easy to relate to. The dialogue during the prom lifts this film out from under the weight of gutter humour and gives it some kind of moral. There was definitely a sense of closure to the end of the film, rather than the usual disbelief that marred the sex comedies of the eighties. I guess this comes from the fact that the characters seemed to have genuinely matured and changed as a result of their experiences, rather than remained idiots.
All in all, a genuinely enjoyable film with well-written, genuinely likeable characters who, in spite for their Americanisation, have shades in them that everyone can recognise. Now all we need is a film that combines the premise of this film with a more Fight Club sort of mentality. Maybe I should get around to writing that autobiography...