A decent feel-good movie

Rating: 6/10 (19 June 2005)

As most reviewers explained, I knew what I was to come upon when I went to see this film. Since I was with my friends, whom were mostly guys, the major after-view conversation topic was Elisha Cuthbert's fine physical traits. This young lady is truly beautiful. But, one night, the cable-T.V. not bearing a great choice of feature films, I chose to watch this one, again, instead of terrible movies like The Matrix Revolutions or The Fast And The Furious.
Although this takes me unto a rather personal point of view, I viewed this re-run during a period of sore depression, and this movie undoubtedly cured it, at least for the night.
The story, which evolved into a simplistic script, not difficult to either dish out or dish in, gives the audience a great impression of deja-vu, although unlike most movies that are based on stories that bear this trait, this one contained a story that "always seems to work".
:::SPOILERS AHEAD:::
The story is, well, a story like others, but a simple one. This clean-cut teen whose scholarship life is based on work, finds his neighboring house being newly inhabited by a coming-out-of-nowhere angelic girl. A friendship builds on that. But false moves executed by the male protagonist chases off the girl, who happens to be a porn star. The fight to get her back begins. Now, of course, there is a main enemy here, whom is the girl's producer. The first battle is lost by our hero, but the next and last one, tied up with decent plot twists, is, on the other hand, won, and followed by what might be one of the most delightful and pain-relieving sexual scenes I have seen on film (adult films set aside).
Of course, the end, as most external reviewers like Rolling Stone Magazine have put it, is "preposterously" implausible. But, that being said, it really, in my point of view, relieves you of stress or pain, all in all becoming a visual aqua-seltzer. But the bad taste of the latter can be compared to the many shortcomings of the technical core of the picture.
Although many of the actors' flaws are unnoticed, well, we are not, as spectators, accompanied by Russell Crowe, Robert De Niro, or Jack Nicholson. But, what the heck? These young actors(the ones in pic) pretty much know there stuff, and are not totally incompetent, actually are far from it(except maybe for one of the principal male protagonist's friends, Eli).
So, this movie is not a compelling one, certainly not an "oscar-buzz", and not part of art- house cinema. It is simply a movie that, by its common story and script, may seem and is, only in more rated-R way, a been-seen pain-killer, depending on one's taste for story lines. Why don't I give it 5 or under? Well because I didn't really get bored, and because, although the laughs are scattered, they are present when they occur, and finally because the cinematography isn't amateurish or boring, it is actually quite surprising. Why didn't I give it over 6? Well, unless we are provocative, we all know why, don't we?