Well done.

Rating: 7/10 (19 August 2007)

Out of all the "teen" genre movies that come out, I will have to say that I was quite excited for this one. I'm not usually one who likes to go out and watch teen raunch movies, mainly because most of them I find dumb and usually depict really stupid archetypal characters with a one dimensional face to them. The premise as most of these movies go is that this story takes place in the span of a day. The usual plot containing a party that these"losers" are so inclined to attend, that they put themselves through so much just to a)get the girl, so that they can get laid (because they've never been laid) and b)feel popular for once. I think most of us can relate to that feeling. I'm pretty sure if most of us can think back to a time in high school, that was all that we could think about. Thankfully most of us have grown up since then.
What I really liked about this movie was that it didn't take itself to seriously. It places it's characters in really awkward situations and lets them behave almost as if most of it was unscripted. I'm sure they had a script but they seem so naturally awkward that it reminds me a lot of how socializing in high school actually was, AWKWARD. They don't say the right thing most of the time, they're not perfectly rehearsed. They basically speak as though I was watching my friends and I having a conversation in high school.
Now; I read some people bitching about how this movie is degrading to women. What I would like to say to that is that at the end of the movie, the main characters perception of sex changes. Which I hope rings true for a lot of people. I remember being so misinformed in high school about sex, that although the main characters are excited and on a mission to get laid, you sense the fear of having sex for the first time as well. I liked the fact that they did not portray the young girls as victims or stupid. They portrayed them as very level headed, and as teenagers are bound to do, they made some bad mis-educated decisions. What I liked was that it showed the 2 main characters displaying different opinions on what their first time should be like. What I also liked was the fact that they gave the girls in this movie a chance to voice their opinions on sex as well. That they learned that they need to treat each other with respect and that sex isn't something you do just when you're drunk because you don't want to remember how horrible it might be is a very good mature perspective to take. It's something that young people now a days need to know, because whether we like to admit it or not, a lot of youth now a days are really misinformed about sex, and what their first time will be like. I thought the movie handled the issue quite well, considering it could have just been crude and raunchy. That is not to say that this movie attempts to be profound or moralistic, but at least these are characters that are real-with real behaviour, real feelings and real life experiences.