Who's the target audience for this R-rated teenybopper film?

Rating: Null/10 (22 January 2004)

Saw it at a preview screening here in San Francisco last night. Overall, this movie seemed like an attempt to capitalize on the success of teenybopper romantic comedies but with an added dose of boob-age to warrant an "R" rating, both a "chick flick" and "dick flick", if you will. The story does seem to drag on though, as the characters manage to get into one predicament after another, with the occasional obstacle coming out of left field, making the movie less fluid. Each new obstacle seemed calculated to elicit laughs and cringing at the same time. The Asian stereotype jokes got old pretty fast and the movie seemed like a throwback of the John Hughes-era films, where a majority of the students are White with the occasional token person of color thrown in. However, the casting was enjoyable, and even Matthew's parents were fun. Bottom line, less in-your-face than the "American Pie" series but still probably only worth a movie rental, at the most.