just like "Risky Business" -- without the intelligence

Rating: 3/10 (18 March 2005)

You can call "The Girl Next Door" a "tribute to Risky Business," but that's just a long, over-generous way of saying "rip off." Greenfield (the unimaginative director) even lifts the same music! What he forgot was the social satire, the creative edge, and the killer cast that made "Risky Business" a classic. "The Girl Next Door" is a steaming gargantuan pile of teen-flick clichés. There isn't an original idea in this mess. Greenfield is so unoriginal, he even uses the same oh-it's-just-a-fantasy device twice. The result is a tedious 90 minutes of cynical teen-sploitation that's insulting to anyone with a modicum of intelligence. The only thing worth watching is Timothy Olyphant's dynamic, multi-layered performance as a porn producer. Rent "Risky Business" instead.