A bit of a shock!

Rating: 10/10 (6 September 2004)

Well I wasn't expecting this, but as a lead I will tell you that in my opinion this is fantastic. Before now the best teen type movie was "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". A great film because it went past the teen film genre and threw in an escalator of scenes that kept you held. Now this film does the same thing, but it adds twists too.
The American Teen Genre has for a long time been perfected, but it has been lacking twists due to the fact they have no depth. Lets be honest, if you add depth to an American Teen film it stops being what it is meant to be.
Enter "The Girl Next door". The Director has managed to make a film that still stays in the same genre, and yet has just enough depth to be able to pull off a few twists. What a good job the Director did too! There is not much let up, and one second your feeling sorry for him, another second your feeling happy for him as the film turns from being a comedy to a drama and back to a comedy again in a relentless fashion. Not quite edge of the seat stuff, but then again it isn't supposed to be. This genre isn't supposed to be this good! I must add a comment that it isn't a family film, and unless you want your kids to watch a few porn stars strut about your house plying there body's to would be producers and directors then you had better make sure you have got them to bed before you put the disc in.
John Hughes, the director of Ferris, Uncle Buck and more has a new challenger.
Great Story, well written and directed, great acting.