Review of Hooking Up (2009) by Jenn T — 30 Jun 2015

I really don't know why this movie was classified as a comedy when it is not anything nearly like that and the whole thing is a mess. I love a good "stupid comedy" like any other normal person but. This thing was just pathetic this weak, unbalanced and (mostly) unfunny attempt at a teen sex comedy left me with a new lack of respect for Corey Feldman, which is quite a feat. It's full of dialog that you can tell is SUPPOSED to be funny, but never really manages to draw out a single laugh. The opening scene is a prime example of this...if you don't laugh in the first five minutes of the movie, just turn it off because you are in for a whole lot more of the same. I'm really not even sure what part of this movie qualifies it as a comedy of any sort.

Movies are supposed to cause you to feel emotions for the characters, good movies will leave you talking about the film to others and referring to the characters as if it's real. This movie caused some emotions, mostly anger, but not in the good movie kind of way. The "villain" of the story never gets served; instead it feels he is glorified, and that I place on the screenwriter/director who is the age of said character...

The acting was awful to awkward. The camera work was amateurish. There was no plot, no twist, and no end. The soundtrack didn't even make sense with the movie. There really is not one single redeeming quality about it. The screenplay is horrible. Jeff Seigel should stay a production assistant because he sucks as a writer. This movie is garbage plain and simple. To see Corey Feldman in such an awful film is sad but maybe not that surprising. To see Brian O'Halloran from the Kevin Smith series of movies in this is more depressing.

I didn't like this movie because it supports the emotional abuse of women. The three main characters all do sexual things with guys, and none of the girls is painted in a good light by the director. I am a guy and I'm not a feminist but I respect women, but this movie still ruined my night. If you are a sadist and hate women, you might like this movie, otherwise don't watch it. The way the movie paints the main female characters makes you question if the director had a bad relationship with his mom or got cheated on by a past girlfriend and is still bitter about it. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention, the movie doesn't really end. It just kind of stops...Which I was happy about, but the fact that there is no real story to it at all probably greatly contributes to its overall crapping. There is no conflict, or rising action, or resolution. It's is just an hour and a half of vomit inducing crap literally. Aside from how depressing it was, the movie's plot was disjointed, there was some decent character development, but there seemed to be no resolution. There were a lot of loose ends left at the end of the movie.

After "hooking up" with a series of guys at a house party, April is the talk of her high school. Her best friend Michelle, envious of all of April's attention, decides to try and follow in her footsteps and become more sexually forward. At the same time, their mutual friend Caroline has become so infatuated with her older boyfriend Ryan that she doesn't realize he's just using her. All the while, John, spends the week informing his two best friends, Colin (April's repressed and confused brother) and Tyler (the subject of Michelle's crush), about obscure sexual urban legends he reads about online, that just somehow end up managing to come true. Throw in the naive principal Dr. Jordan, who also happens to be Michelle's father, and Mr. Kimbal, a chemistry teacher trying desperately to dodge repeated seduction attempts from his students.

In this over-the-top comedy, the relationships of three girls and fours guys - in affluent, adolescent suburban reality - intersect through the topsy-turvy world of love, power...and hooking up.

The relationships of three girls and four guys in affluent adolescent suburbia intersect through the topsy-turvy world of love, sex, and power.