Good.. for the first 25 minutes

Rating: 4/10 (14 August 2004)

"Girl next door" comes off as a good movie, when watching the first 25 minutes. Editing, soundtrack and camera work makes it stand out from other teenybopper flicks, by looking somewhat more professional.
The acting is OK and the storyline is passable and somewhat captivating. It seems as if the story is about the guy and this girl falling in love and having to overcome some problems, including the usual comic relief, which could actually have become quite a good movie. Then, for some odd reason about 25 minutes into this abomination, the whole storyline spirals into a farce with a plot that's been used so many times before, it hurts.
All of a sudden, the girl almost disappears from the script leaving the the main male character behind with (ofcourse) his two nerdy friends, who's never gotten laid, and then... well, and then it seems the director tries to kill off this movie in the best way possible, 'cus he knows he messed up. This results in a long and booooooring movie that should've never left the paper it was written on. For the last 30 minutes of this flick, you keep thinking "ok, it HAS to end now", but noooo, somehow it keeps going on and on and on...
Bad plot, bad acting, bad writing, bad directing, bad editing, in fact it all sucks.. except for the soundtrack which was very well compiled, but not really suited for a silly movie like this.