This horrible so-called comedy about a bunch of teens making a pact to lose their virginity before college was much worse than I remembered. (I had seen it once many years ago)
First off, the so-called humor was absolutely unfunny, including such 'gags' as the following - a guy using a pie while pretending to have sexual relations with a woman, hence the stupid title - everyone knows that scene; a guy drinking a cup of beer not knowing there's semen in it (I guess because he's a loudmouth and nasty this is supposed to be funny?!?); same said guy with beer then vomiting on the dress of the girl he was with instead of having sex with her; a guy unknowingly being slipped laxative and then rushing to the girls' bathroom to have his bowel movement, which despite his misery he places pieces of toilet tissue down on the seat before to avoid germs (even though when walking down the hallways he seemed close to going in his pants), and then flatulence sounds and such while the girls in there at the mirror (the only place females ever go to in bathrooms in movies) go 'eww'; and a girl at a microphone at the prom saying how some guy she said had sex with her didn't, and among other insults to him, how he pees himself when he's nervous or embarrassed (I forget the exact lines) - and then the guy wets himself.
WOW.
That's not cruelty? Making incontinence something to laugh at, to be made fun of?
Or the other guy suddenly being hit with what was surely violent diarrhea from a so-called friend giving him laxative?
Ebert wrote in his review which can be read on here, 'Raunchy is okay. Cruelty is not.' He clearly could not see the two overlapping here......
The rest of the movie, we have various characters, like the idiot who, deciding to use the pie to try and pretend what sex must feel like, does it in the kitchen, is caught on the counter by his DAD, and this is supposed to be funny.
The father, played by Eugene Levy of SCTV fame, gives the boy some porn mags in his room and talks to him in a manner....that I can only imagine some kids possibly - possibly- finding funny as their minds and tastes haven't developed yet; it's DIRE.
Then there's the girl who comes over to see him, played by the gorgeous Shannon Elizabeth (the female cast are very attractive young women here, no doubt) - she is a foreign student (this reminded me a tiny bit of the Beverly Hillbillies episode 'The Swiss Maid' with Julie Newmar, but that was actually humorous) - she comes over, and he has this hookup so that it's being filmed, and the live video footage is shown to everybody he knows, somehow, via online. Of course, after he takes off to see her naked at another house (?!?), she then proceeds to use the magazines his father brought for her own sexual needs; yes, this is so realistic.... And to add to how horrible this scene is, she has him strip when he gets back - absolutely cringe-inducing.
And the 'band geek,' played by Alyson Hannigan; her repeating herself about band camp is the supposed joke here, along with her suddenly speaking sexually and wanting sex; Hannigan was likeable but her character and jokes are not funny in the least.
Then there's the actor Chris Klein, who was in the great movie Election just before this; he is the sole male character who shows some sensitivity in regards to the girl he falls for, played by Mena Suvari, who was in American Beauty around this time; both do their parts really well, and basically if a movie could show more of this thoughtful rejection of the crude 'need' to lose their virginity before a certain age and actually have a romantic movie, that would have been one worth watching. Alas, the subplot that is it, surrounded by crass, disgusting and cruel humor, cannot save or make this movie.
Likewise, the talents of Alyson Hannigan and Natasha Lyonne (who has just been in the movie Slums Of Beverly Hills) are just wasted in this sick, unbelievably overrated, horrible excuse for a comedy.
Avoid at all costs.
First off, the so-called humor was absolutely unfunny, including such 'gags' as the following - a guy using a pie while pretending to have sexual relations with a woman, hence the stupid title - everyone knows that scene; a guy drinking a cup of beer not knowing there's semen in it (I guess because he's a loudmouth and nasty this is supposed to be funny?!?); same said guy with beer then vomiting on the dress of the girl he was with instead of having sex with her; a guy unknowingly being slipped laxative and then rushing to the girls' bathroom to have his bowel movement, which despite his misery he places pieces of toilet tissue down on the seat before to avoid germs (even though when walking down the hallways he seemed close to going in his pants), and then flatulence sounds and such while the girls in there at the mirror (the only place females ever go to in bathrooms in movies) go 'eww'; and a girl at a microphone at the prom saying how some guy she said had sex with her didn't, and among other insults to him, how he pees himself when he's nervous or embarrassed (I forget the exact lines) - and then the guy wets himself.
WOW.
That's not cruelty? Making incontinence something to laugh at, to be made fun of?
Or the other guy suddenly being hit with what was surely violent diarrhea from a so-called friend giving him laxative?
Ebert wrote in his review which can be read on here, 'Raunchy is okay. Cruelty is not.' He clearly could not see the two overlapping here......
The rest of the movie, we have various characters, like the idiot who, deciding to use the pie to try and pretend what sex must feel like, does it in the kitchen, is caught on the counter by his DAD, and this is supposed to be funny.
The father, played by Eugene Levy of SCTV fame, gives the boy some porn mags in his room and talks to him in a manner....that I can only imagine some kids possibly - possibly- finding funny as their minds and tastes haven't developed yet; it's DIRE.
Then there's the girl who comes over to see him, played by the gorgeous Shannon Elizabeth (the female cast are very attractive young women here, no doubt) - she is a foreign student (this reminded me a tiny bit of the Beverly Hillbillies episode 'The Swiss Maid' with Julie Newmar, but that was actually humorous) - she comes over, and he has this hookup so that it's being filmed, and the live video footage is shown to everybody he knows, somehow, via online. Of course, after he takes off to see her naked at another house (?!?), she then proceeds to use the magazines his father brought for her own sexual needs; yes, this is so realistic.... And to add to how horrible this scene is, she has him strip when he gets back - absolutely cringe-inducing.
And the 'band geek,' played by Alyson Hannigan; her repeating herself about band camp is the supposed joke here, along with her suddenly speaking sexually and wanting sex; Hannigan was likeable but her character and jokes are not funny in the least.
Then there's the actor Chris Klein, who was in the great movie Election just before this; he is the sole male character who shows some sensitivity in regards to the girl he falls for, played by Mena Suvari, who was in American Beauty around this time; both do their parts really well, and basically if a movie could show more of this thoughtful rejection of the crude 'need' to lose their virginity before a certain age and actually have a romantic movie, that would have been one worth watching. Alas, the subplot that is it, surrounded by crass, disgusting and cruel humor, cannot save or make this movie.
Likewise, the talents of Alyson Hannigan and Natasha Lyonne (who has just been in the movie Slums Of Beverly Hills) are just wasted in this sick, unbelievably overrated, horrible excuse for a comedy.
Avoid at all costs.