The Girl Next Door on DVD (2004)

5 if Elisha was naked... she is a porn star after all.

N Stafford from England , 26/04/2005

This movie would be much better if we saw Elisha Cuthbert's naked; she IS a porn star after all. As it stands though, it is almost the definition of a three-point-five star movie. That's saying, it has everything you knew it would have, which makes it very average - but it also throws up some bizarre new twists and turns to the genre, which at least makes it slightly unpredictable. The movie was long, and could have done with some heavy editing; many scenes were just space fillers - particularly filming the imagination of the main character. In an already long movie this was unnecessary. Also the main character; Matthew, is an adolescent 'boy'. Surely they could have chosen someone who looked less like the kid from the wonder years. The belief that Elisha would enjoy the contrast between the usual porn star industry men, and this little boy was a little far fetched, and I can almost guarantee that's why it's never happed. There is nice and then there is naive - he wasn't just a contrast, he was the complete opposite -- trying to hard to be cool, he looked like an insecure little brat - a teenager, not decisively nice at all, just too insecure to argue or defend himself -- definitely too limp wristed to ever pull a post porn star and protect her from the bad porno man. Saying that, it's really Elisha Cuthbert's movie, so he's only a minor inconvenience. Reading other reviews for this movie it seems unanymous - the tag line for this movie should be, 'it's not as bad as I thought'.

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Better Than They Say

A customer from Oxford, England , 04/06/2004

This film is far better than many of the others in the genre such as American Pie and Road Trip. The humour is darker and not as obvious which I thought added to the appeal. It is true, as many critics have said that the plot is a bit confused and the film is probably over long for one of its type but the two leads put in good performances although the show is probably stolen by (acting wise at least) Timothy Olyphant.

All in all this film has undeservedly failed to gain the reviews it deserves and is a much better Sunday afternoon film than American Pie and many of the others.

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Has everything!!!!

Ian Ritchie from Aberdeen , 18/09/2004

If you liked American Pie and the sort of teen humour, then you'll love this!!

It has so much more than that though, and combines two perfect lead roles with a witty script and some funny extras, to make this one of the best films I have watched.

I didn't expect too much from it, and thought it would just be about some guy head over heels with his next door neighbour. But it surprised me in that it had a good storyline to go along with it and the characters in the movie were excellent!!

I thought it was a bit of a guy film to start with, but it has a good modern day love story going on, is a good comedy, along with a good drama and I would highly recommend this to everyone.

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Amazing!

DannyW from North Yorkshire , 12/08/2004

I loved this film, Its funny on so many different levels and very entertaining. You will not be disappointed if you rent this film!

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Sooo bad.

Andrew Gledhill from Finsbury Park , 05/10/2004

Quite possibly one of the worst films I have ever seen. For some of the other reviewers to compare it to Risky Business - well, they must have rocks in their head. It's as if two different directors kept turning up on different days with totally different ideas of what this film was supposed to be. Yeah - the girls were hot, Sam Yung mildly amusing and the main protagonists sidekicks provided a little light relief but this film only gets one star - and thats only for Elisha Cuthbert (and mostly for her body!)

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Below par teen comedy could have been a lot better

Andrew Hunt from Doncaster, England , 08/10/2004

Not the best example of the teen comedy genre by any stretch of the imagination. Despite star elisha cuthberts screen radience (she is destined for brighter things) the films premise is very simple and its an exactly what it says on the tin kind of movie. Not bad for a night in with a beer but if you really wanna see solid genre examples move to road trip, american pie or porkys where the laughs never stop.

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