Review of Barely Legal (2003) by Ján S — 21 Nov 2012

Picking up from where a previous reviewer left off, yes, it is a glamorized home video, and yes, the story is kind of flat. However, it is entertaining in the way that a sex comedy should be. There's plenty of skin, and if you manage to actually watch the movie (instead of fast forwarding from skin to skin, thereby skipping audio), you'll find that there is something like a plot.

There's even "a moral" at the end, if this can be said of a sex comedy. Acting performances are just slightly better than one would expect of a typical TV show episode level (i.e. not quite up to "movie level quality"), but Melissa Johnston (starring as "Sue") and Myko Olivier (in a supporting role as "Eric") gave pretty good performances with freshness and honesty that actually count as acting.

In sum, this is a naughty, simple, and enjoyable "late night comedy". I don't normally review movies, let alone naughty ones, but I suspect that "the silent majority" of movie non-critics would rate this around 40% rather than the 16% that it has on 11/21/2012.