AN AGELESS TASK
Starring: Matthew Bennett (II), Zack Pearlman, Jacob Davich, Justin Kline, and Krysta Rodriguez
Directed by: Andrew Gurland, Huck Botko
MPAA Rating: R for strong crude and sexual content, nudity, pervasive language, drug and alcohol use
Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 1 hr. 26 min
Release date: September 17, 2010
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
By John Delia
Pick up your video cam, take on a weird subject, make it comical, put it up on YouTube and maybe, just maybe Will Ferrell will see and produce the movie for screens across the country. That’s what happened to The Virginity Hit, a wild comedy about a teen losing his virginity to another virgin. Made in documentary style, the wobbly movie containing scenes photographed using hand-held cameras and poorly framed images become unbearable at times. But, I do admit the story and actors come together nicely to form some comical situations even if they diminish the real meaning of ‘making love.’
Here is a statement from Columbia Pictures: Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, founders of the online site Funny or Die and the guys behind some of the most raucous comedies produced today are always on the lookout for new talent and they have found it with The Virginity Hit. This movie is down and dirty filmmaking at its finest in just about every way one can imagine. It’s four guys, one camera, and their hilarious experience chronicling the exhilarating and terrifying rite of passage: losing your virginity. As these guys help their buddy get laid, they’ll have to survive friends with benefits, Internet hookups, and even porn stars during an adventure that proves why you will always remember your first.
Well I couldn’t describe the experience any better than Columbia Pictures, except the film directs all it’s energy at one audience, pubescent teens who will chortle together while pointing at the screen saying ‘did he just do that?’ Coming out of the theatre the comment will be, ‘don’t tell mom I took you to see this film.’
The Virginity Hit pushes all the prurient buttons of the coming of age teen including a lot of crude content, off color language, bongs, porn star nudity…well you know all the stuff that peaks the interest of the adolescent male to whom the film’s directed. The Motion Picture Association of America rates the film an R for all the reason I stated above. So make sure that your teenage son drops off his younger brother in the auditorium with the animated film Alpha and Omega where he will probably learn just as much from the wolves, but in a nicer way.
FINAL ANALYSIS: A film that undermines the real meaning of love and gets produced in spite of it. (2 of 5)