The movie that wouldn't end.

Rating: 3/10 (11 April 2004)

Girl next door was an interesting movie choice. I went in not expecting much. For the first half hour or 40 minutes I thought I was wrong. The movie had a heart! It seemed reminiscent of those old style 80's teen comedies I love so much. Risky business, as others have mentioned, a little sixteen candles etc etc. So I relaxed and began to get into the movie. Unfortunately, I was wrong yet again.
This movie-correction-the MAJORITY of this movie wasn't good. If they could have made this movie with just the first 40 minutes and the last 5 or so, they'd have a keeper, but the middle just torpedoed the whole thing. Here is why. And yes:there will be some SPOILERS:
The movie becomes preposterous-violent, corny, not funny and TEDIOUS. It becomes the movie that will not end. There are exhausting tiresome twists thrown in virtually every five minutes that did nothing for me except give me a headache I did not want.
This had the potential to be great. It started promisingly enough. Danielle and Matt have lots of chemistry-she brings out his wild side-it's fun and breezy. But the movie just throws to many unfunny pointless curb balls and quickly becomes less a comedy then a wanna be boogie nights-teen style. And it doesn't work. It loses its focus and becomes more then mediocre, just bad. So many scenes are thrown in that are obviously just fillers. They don't need to be there and are not funny-just pointless.
We were very disappointed in girl next door-we actually almost walked out at 1 point but the movie was winding up at that point anyway. Although, as mentioned there WERE parts that were good, the movie skimmed over the good parts while highlighting the stupid ones.
Kelly should NOT have morphed into A thug-he should have stayed funny if a bit slick. He was great up until the kidnapping scene which was just dumb.
There should have been more scenes of Danielle and Mathew falling in love-such great chemistry! such under use of ALL that chemistry!
The movie should have wound up at least 20 minutes before it did-maybe more.
The end was ridiculous-how did Kelley even know they had MADE that tape? Tedious-and maybe the movie should have wound up with the whole scholarship dinner.
In closing-I'd give this 3 out of 10-though the beginning and last few minutes gets an 8 and the soundtrack gets an easy 10. This is not, the worst movie I've ever seen at all-(although pretty bad)-but it wasn't anything near what it could have been.