Review of 'The Girl Next Door'

Ah! It is the time again, for that all time fantasy of every teenage dude. A stunning beautiful lass (Elisha Cuthbert) walks into the next door, as the new neighbor. The geek dude (Emile Hirsch) letches at her unclothed contours while she is changing (I really am not able to guess, why these damsels change their clothes with open windows, and bright lights. No such luck for me, ever.)
The girl sees the dude watching her. She walks into his house, talks to his parents.
But, not about the geek dude watching her unclothed. She says that she just wanna talk to him.
She takes him out for a drive. Asks him to strip on the road, as she wants to watch him.
She leaves him in the cold, naked, on the road, and drives back.

Yeah, predictably, this is the beginning of their long-standing relationship. The girl is too good to be true. She is smart, she is funny, and she is drop dead gorgeous. She drives a swanky car, and is at his college to pick him up from the classes.
And when they kiss, they can melt concrete.
Also, the dude is working to win a scholarship to the Georgetown University, the gateway to realizing all his dreams.

Everything seems perfect.

Well, here's the glitch. The stunning dame is a porn star. And she has a toughie as an agent, who is ready to turn the geek dude into a punching bag, if need be.
There are other super contenders for the scholarship to Georgetown University, and it is a tough one for the geek dude to sell himself to the board for the scholarship.
And the fund that he had raised to get a foreign exchange student, from Cambodia to the US, is stolen. And he is being blamed for that.

Running from the police, running from the thugs, and running more to get the love of his life, the geek dude will do anything to prevent her from being driven out of his life. That includes starring in a porn movie himself.




The story is sketchy. The script is wayward. The jokes are flat.
But this comedy makes up for everything by having the stunning damsel as the heroine, who is more 'cute' than 'hot'. Though you would always wonder about how such a ‘cute’ girl could end up as a porn star, you would definitely appreciate the director’s efforts in showing her as the confused girl in the wrong industry, who giggles innocently, and holds hands with dreams in her eyes. Though not a commendable effort from Elisha to play the complex role of a girl in dilemma, she is a charm to watch because of her innocent appearance.
The director successfully makes a romantic comedy out of a story which could have been made on the lines of the darker 'Striptease'.

Yes, there are a lot of questions, and there always are.

But, wanna have an afternoon of simple fun??? Rent a DVD of this movie.