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Created Dec 14, 2007 11:48AM PST • Edited Dec 14, 2007 11:48AM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Barely OK 2.0

   Pretty low on my list of funny movies, even in the “stupid teen comedy” genre. The movie is based entirely around a just-graduated-from-high-school-geek who spends his entire summer living on the front yard of his heart’s desire, a girl named Erica, refusing to move until she loves him. Of course, since this is an American teen movie, “loves him” really means “sleeps with him.” A few chuckles, but definitely no LOLs.

4. Acting

   Great 4.0

   The cast actually did pretty well with the script they were given.

5. Male Stars Great 4.0

   Joshua Schaefer plays the awkward lover (Peter) convincingly. No hard, considering he’s a scrawny white boy.

6. Female Stars Great 4.0

   Keri Russell does well as Erica, the object de lust for Peter. Her shining moment, though, is in the opening scene when she is playing in the sprinkler in short jean shorts and a white wife beater. Truly, the apex of the movie is in the first five minutes because of these shots.

7. Female Costars Great 4.0

8. Male Costars Great 4.0

10. Film

    OK 2.5

11. Direction Barely OK 2.0

12. Play Pretty Bad 1.5

13. Music OK 2.5

14. Visuals Perfect 5.0

    Thanks for those wet wife beater shots, Keri!

15. Content

16. Edge

    Risqué 1.7

    Rated R because the entire movie is a big sexual conversation.

17. Sex Titillating 1.8

18. Violence Gentle 1.0

19. Rudeness Salty 2.4

21. Reality

    Glib 1.6

22. Circumstantial Surreal 2.8

    Like some guy would actually waste an entire summer living on a girl’s front yard trying to make her love him as she’s about to leave for college. Yeah, right.

23. Biological

24. Physical Natural 1.0