Hypocritical but enjoyable

Rating: 6/10 (16 April 2011)

This movie is a romantic comedy about a porn star falling for a lad in high school. Ignoring the fact that this is usually regarded as borderline paedophilia, and ignoring the massive improbability of the central premise, this film tries to have it sweet cake and eat it despite its unsavouriness.
There is a hypocritical double standard at work here. The porn element, central to the plot, isn't actually present in the film at all ie. the film doesn't have the courage of the conviction which forms part of its foundation. And if the film doesn't believe in it enough to include sufficient of it to persuade the audience, why should the audience accept its credibility as part of its central conceit? Do be specific, Elisha Cuthbert is always attractive, always cute, always sexy, but never convinces as someone who has been a participant in the porn industry: she is entirely too wholesome.
And this is a shame, because it undermines a movie which features characters whose company is quite pleasing, and a script with some good moments in it.