Year:
2000
Studio:
Once Upon a Time Films
Movie:
3/5
DVD:
0/5
Jailbait is a made for television movie funded by MTV Films. It is a
sarcastic parody of statuatory rape. Kevin Mundy plays Adam Fisher, a
rather dim-witted yet good looking high school senior. He has a
girlfriend, Amber (Reagan Pasternak) who provides a constant voice-over
throughout the movie.
Amber doesn't put out which really frustates Adam. And then one day he
catches the eye of Gynger (Alycia Purrott) at a local eatery and they
do it in the bathroom. Nothing bad there since he's still 18 but he
then turns 18 and keeps doing it with Gynger, who is 15.
Eventually people find out and the police find out and Adam is
arrested. Adam's parents, Al (Matt Frewer) and Patti (Mary Gross) hire
sleazy lawyer Chuck Clopperman (Scott McCord) to defend their son. His
strategy is to turn this whole situation into a media circus and garner
sympathy for the two lovebirds (who don't particularly like each other,
they just love the rocking sex).
But it's not going to be that easy for Adam because Assistant District
Attorney Lydia Stone (Mo Gaffney) wants to make this into a big case
that will propel her to the mayoral seat. Both sides make terrible
mistakes and it becomes a farce to see who makes the fewest dunderhead
errors.
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Really, I
didn't like this movie. It tries to be funny and sarcastic all the time
but it's like they were just throwing any idea they had into the movie.
There are fish-eye lenses, lots of voiceover sarcasm, stupid jokes,
white trash jokes, religious jokes, lots of masturbation and sex
jokes... by the end of the movie I'm kind of disgusted.
In the end I'm not the target audience. It's a movie about people I
don't care with jokes that are too smarmy to be funny. I suppose
there's an MTV target audience and maybe they'd like it more.
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