Review date: 5-Oct-2009

Clare Kilner (The Wedding Date; How to Deal) treads away from typical rom-com territory into the realm of the trendy raunchiness train with American Virgin. Take some of the best elements from movies like American Pie and Road Trip and you get American Virgin. Needless to say, the film is hardly original. The film boasts overused cliché college humor, along with lots and lots of boobs.

The premise of the film is quite funny nonetheless. It takes a satirical approach to prissy abstinence practicing good girls and their exposure to the world of debauchery. Priscilla (Jenna Dewan, Step Up; Tamara) is a young and naive virgin who’s life of cleanliness is tarnished within minutes of arriving to college. One wild night, along with the presence of “Chicks Go Crazy” (like Girls Gone Wild) mogul Ed Curtzman (Rob Schneider), turns Priscilla’s whole world upside down.

The first half of the film is original and interesting enough to grab the viewer’s attention, but it slowly begins to rely on the same old routine seen in its counterparts. Plenty of exposed female flesh, wild over the top parties, and road trips to track down shameful video tapes are just among some of the most notable attributes. All in all the film is distinctive enough to not simply be classified as another American Pie ripoff, but stops short of being the next big teen movie.

The film’s editing is nothing spectacular, nor is the cast. Aside from Dewan, no one really stuck out. The movie can’t help but seem like a Family Channel college comedy, except with tons of nudity. With some  better performances, more credible scenes, and less fluff, American Virgin could have been a more female friendly version of the raunchy comedy genre. In the end it sheds good comedic light on the notion of being true to one’s self, but the whole message kind of gets lost in the sea of hogwash.
Rating: 4 out of 7
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