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If every generation gets the American Pie or
Porky's it deserves, then the arrival of The
Virginity Hit in 2010 makes sense. This tale of
four high-school friends agreeing to lose their
virginity is entirely seen through the lens of a
video camera, as the guys themselves document the
process. Actually, three of them are dispatched
within the first couple of minutes; mostly we focus
on Matt (Matt Bennett), the geekiest of the bunch,
who's been going out with Nicole (Nicole Weaver)
for a couple of years. They've finally "set a
date," and--perhaps appropriately for the communal,
no-privacy zone of the Facebook age--they've shared
their intentions with all their friends. In fact,
some of Matt's bumbling preparations for the big
night end up on YouTube, as do the disasters that
surround the scheduled liaison: Matt learns that
Nicole might have cheated on him at a frat party,
and he goes into a tailspin that includes a
confrontation with his absent father and a date
with a porn star (played by porn star Sunny Leone).
All of this is digitally documented by the pals, of
course, a process directors Huck Botko and Andrew
Gurland seem to consider perfectly normal rather
than sadistic. Their angle (they also wrote the
faux-documentary The Last Exorcism) could be
perfectly acceptable if the movie were funnier and
maybe had a few characters who weren't repellent.
The film makes a half-hearted attempt to pass
itself off as real, but it can sustain itself even
if you don't buy that--the jokes about bodily
functions and transsexual blow-up dolls require no
particular gimmick to translate them into lowbrow
humor. But that's about the best that can be said
for this buffoonish exercise. --Robert Horton
Editor's Note: This is the 2010 version of
the 1995 movie KIDS. Both
movies are R rated and actually should be
rated PG-13 just because many of the kids already
know all this stuff and the parents are the ones
that need the wake-up call.
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