These Girls is just a completely average film in every way. The cast tries their best but the script is sub-par and sleazy and really carries no real weight. It doesn't try to play to any particular demographic, certainly not teens or shouldn't be and anyone older than thirty and you might feel a little dirty watching this film about 16 and 17 year old girls seducing and more or less raping a 30+ year old man, who is married and whose baby is quite often in the next room or with him. Even though the three actresses portraying teenagers are well into their twenties it doesn't make the film any less sexually deviant or disturbing. There is just something wrong about the whole thing. Based on a French Canadian play the film is just a mish-mash of weirdness but I suppose with some decent performance by the lead cast.
David Boreanaz, I admit I'm a fan, loved him through Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and Angel and I am now an avid watcher of Bones and he is good in the lead role as sleazy serial cheater Keith Clark. I don't think this film will do a thing for his career but his role is good and he does a decent job. I don't know how he got tied up with this one though?? Relatively experienced Canadian actress Caroline Dhavernas, plays the lead girl and narrator Keira St-George. She does come across as the most intelligent and the leader of the group but their actions make them all sleazy no matter what they do outside of that. Out of the three girls she did the best job as little as that might be saying. Relative newcomer Holly Lewis plays the youngest, most inexperienced of the group. She is religiously obsessive but feels the need to experience sex once before going away to 7th Day Adventist school. I found her annoying and her portrayal as such a young school girl really disturbing and the sex scene she shares with Boreanaz was just borderline wrong and disgusting. Amanda Walsh, former Much Music VJ plays Glory Lorraine, and I think possibly gave the best performance. Her character Glory was truly infatuation with Keith and believed she loved him and gets screwed over by him and her friends. Her portrayal as being so much younger came across as kind of weird at times too but she was still better than most in the film.
Certainly I would not describe These Girls as a "chick flick" because the film is completely and utterly demeaning to women. But in all fairness it's kind of completely and utterly demeaning to men too. The film can only be best described as a sleaze-fest with no real outcome although they try to make it seem like Keith Clark gets what's coming to him but he doesn't. I even saw a review that compared this to the recent film "John Tucker Must Die" and although These Girls might try to follow that formula it certainly never comes across as that. Definitely pass this one over unless you're a huge fan of one of the main characters. You'll be disappointed. Despite a slightly watchable and a graciously short time span it's really not worth seeing. 5/10
David Boreanaz, I admit I'm a fan, loved him through Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and Angel and I am now an avid watcher of Bones and he is good in the lead role as sleazy serial cheater Keith Clark. I don't think this film will do a thing for his career but his role is good and he does a decent job. I don't know how he got tied up with this one though?? Relatively experienced Canadian actress Caroline Dhavernas, plays the lead girl and narrator Keira St-George. She does come across as the most intelligent and the leader of the group but their actions make them all sleazy no matter what they do outside of that. Out of the three girls she did the best job as little as that might be saying. Relative newcomer Holly Lewis plays the youngest, most inexperienced of the group. She is religiously obsessive but feels the need to experience sex once before going away to 7th Day Adventist school. I found her annoying and her portrayal as such a young school girl really disturbing and the sex scene she shares with Boreanaz was just borderline wrong and disgusting. Amanda Walsh, former Much Music VJ plays Glory Lorraine, and I think possibly gave the best performance. Her character Glory was truly infatuation with Keith and believed she loved him and gets screwed over by him and her friends. Her portrayal as being so much younger came across as kind of weird at times too but she was still better than most in the film.
Certainly I would not describe These Girls as a "chick flick" because the film is completely and utterly demeaning to women. But in all fairness it's kind of completely and utterly demeaning to men too. The film can only be best described as a sleaze-fest with no real outcome although they try to make it seem like Keith Clark gets what's coming to him but he doesn't. I even saw a review that compared this to the recent film "John Tucker Must Die" and although These Girls might try to follow that formula it certainly never comes across as that. Definitely pass this one over unless you're a huge fan of one of the main characters. You'll be disappointed. Despite a slightly watchable and a graciously short time span it's really not worth seeing. 5/10