Yes, you read the title right, the 18 Year Old Virgin. I have not started to review porn but Asylum Pictures known for their “mockbuster” movies such as The Day The Earth Stopped, Snakes on a Train, and Transmorphers decided to try their hand at the raunchy teen comedy. Unlike the other movies mentioned that rely on special effects and action, a teen comedy can be made on a very small budget, so this actually works. American Pie this is not, but more like its straight-to-DVD sequels. Good for a few laughs, but nothing to rave about.
The plot sounds ridiculous at first. An 18 year old girl is still a virgin and she wants to lose her virginity before graduation, but it just doesn’t seem to happen (and she’s not ugly). It turns out that there are all kinds of situations and reasons that are preventing it from happening, and it’s all in one night at a party, so it’s not as ridiculous as it originally sounds (but still pretty damn unrealistic). What you get, as I mentioned before, is a straight to DVD quality raunchy teen comedy that provides some laughs and throws in some boobs too. If jokes about trimming overgrown bush, going down on grandfathers in a coma, or various other uncomfortable and ridiculous situations sound like something you won’t laugh at, you will not laugh at this movie. If you chuckled while reading that sentence, I’m sure you can enjoy it a bit.
It is very low budget and it shows. You will not recognize anyone in this movie and you will probably never see them in anything ever again. The movie was obviously shot on digital video to keep it low-budget and then put through some filters to make it look more like film, but you can still tell. You will laugh throughout the movie, but no scene stands out as something that has to be seen. It’s entertaining, you laugh while watching, especially with a group of friends, and you move on with your life. It is as simple as that, and for that reason I won’t say anything more on it. If you have NetFlix Instant, it’s on there, you hit play when you’ve got some time to kill.
As I mentioned, I watched it on NetFlix Instant. The picture quality is as good as you can expect from a low budget shot on digital video movie. The video quality on the stream is the same as the DVD so it’s as good as it gets. The sound is the typical stereo mix found on NetFlix Instant. Click here to watch it if you have a NetFlix account.
3/5 stars – Standard straight to DVD teen comedy. Perfect reason why NetFlix Instant exists: Something to get some laughs at when bored, but not something you’d go out of your way to see.
