This is a teenage boy's dream come true. Unfortunately, it's not going to happen. Although there are a lot of over-the-top moments, the movie just fails to capture the heart of its audience. It tries to imitate to many other flicks like Risky Business. It's mixed themes of raunchiness and introspection just doesn't produce a great blend.
Plot: A good kid who is the class president and over-achiever tries to raise enough funds to bring a smart Cambodian kid, "Sam Young", to study at his school because he believes that Sam Young is a genius who could one day find the cure for cancer. He gets accepted into Georgetown and his parents are proud of him. He wants to do something wild and crazy, but his straight upbringing prevents him from acting out on his desires to give in to senioritis. He prepares for a speech to win a scholarship for exceptional moral fiber.
One day, a beautiful girl moves in next door. He sees her changing in the window. She catches him watching her, but it turns out, she actually likes him. They go out and have a great time. He loves the way her wild and crazy nature pushes him to experience the euphoria of life. She loves him because of how he cares for her. His porn addicted friend shows him a tape that proves that she's a porn star. At first, he's distraught, but he realizes that he's profoundly in love with her. Later on, her sleazy producer comes to take her back to make more films. The kid and his buddies drive to the Las Vegas porn convention to bring her back. The producer guy gets revenge by stealing the $25G that was in trust to bring Sam Young to the States. The kid and his posse come up with a plan to make a sex ed video during their prom to raise the necessary cash.
Although there are some suspenseful and funny scenes, the style of the film in which the movie was made just did not win me over. It just wasn't light-hearted enough for a sex comedy. That sleazeball producer gave me the creeps, especially in the scene where he drives the kid to a remote and secluded area and forces him to commit fellatio. Fortunately, he was just kidding, but relieves some of his stress by smashing the kids' face.
The nerdy kids get a couple of porn stars, including Sung Hi Lee, to be their prom dates. They then make a porn tape about sex ed. They thought this was necessary because they had to watch all the bad sex ed videos in school that were made during the 70's. Amazingly, the videos sell like hotcakes and the kid becomes rich and buys a Z4 BMW. When he attends Georgetown, his girlfriend is there waiting for him every day after class.
My rating: C, 74.
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