Wilting at the stem.

Rating: 1/10 (19 August 2006)

I rented this with some reservations and now realize that I should have listened to my gut. There's something fundamentally creepy in the premise of this film: guy-friends so concerned about another guy-friend's virginity that they engage in an all out crusade to get his cherry popped. One hackneyed joke follows another, and there are countless moronic high jinks along the way as the characters trample on positive constructions of women's sexuality, exploit the male adolescent fear of being called gay, and dismiss the possible virtues of celibacy and the single life. This leaves us, ultimately, with very few genuinely funny moments. Good comedy doesn't require such sophomoric antics.