The Girl Next Door
The Girl Next Door Review Formula = Boogey Nights + American Pie + My 17 Year Old Mind
The Girl Next Door is yet another adolescent movie emerging from the shadows of the American Pie Trilogy and Road Trip era, but word on the street is that The Girl Next Door just might compare to the adolescent film legends, like Fast Times at Ridgemont High and The Breakfast Club. Comparisons like that may be tough for The Girl Next Door to live up to, but you'll have to go see for yourself.
Don't worry about who directed it. Don't worry about who's starring in it. Think of the concept.
A porn star moves next door to you. Think about it. It is the hedonistic fantasy of thousands of young men across the country. Let me focus that statement: it was my fantasy. As a slightly nervous seventeen year old, a sexually aggressive, confident, stunningly gorgeous girl moving into the neighborhood was the pretext of every wet dream. Only this time, it's not on my bed sheets, but the big screen. That alone would be enough to get me to camp out for tickets to The Girl Next Door as if they were for the World Series.
The Girl Next Door takes that fantasy and says, "Double or nothing". According to an informal Box Office Talk survey, the second most popular adolescent male fantasy of the digital age is dating a porn star. In reality, dating a porn star would have its (limited) drawbacks. You'd be burdened with jealousy at the tip of the rewind button, family scorn, the threat of disease, and eternal damnation according to the Christian Right. Worst of all, you’d suffer an inescapable feeling of penile inadequacy, and rightfully so. But movies have a way of letting the viewer live through the emotions of the characters, and I want to live in that dream world, just for the 108 minutes of this feature film. I want to return to being that slightly unsure, slightly inexperienced and slightly aroused teenager.
The front row of The Girl Next Door is the best chance I've got.
Check out The Girl Next Door poster.
The Girl Next Door Review, Trailer & Snapshot
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant, James Remar
Directed by: Luke Greenfield
Release Date: 4/9/2004
MPAA Rating: R
Running Time: 108 Minutes
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Yes I like porn.....and adolesent girls.....and movies.....and have fantisies....perfect!!!!
Posted by: tipdawg at April 13, 2004 10:15 AMI think that Elisha is the most beautiful girl in the world. Much better looking than Britney Spears.
Posted by: paul at April 19, 2004 11:02 AM
