The Virginity Hit: Critic Reviews

The cast gets some room to improv, and the home-video style -- call it blockbuster mumblecore? -- works cleverly because it emerges right out of the everyone's-an-exhibitionist YouTube age.

Unfortunately, the things that can be funny and even liberating in a movie like American Pie end up looking coarse and slightly depressing in the scripted pseudoreality of The Virginity Hit.

If there were justice in the world -- and there isn't -- the film would quickly crawl back under the rock whence it came.

A thoroughly depressing teen farce in which Internet voyeurism has replaced human intimacy and where privacy is *so* 20th century.

It's crass, senseless and, consequently, void of humor.

Equal parts bold experiment (in sustaining a YouTube aesthetic for an entire film), and shallow redux of well-worn teenage sex comedy tropes.

It relies heavily on wacky plot developments and routine gross-out gags like a guy excusing himself from his lad-love's bed on their big night so he can suffer sudden-onset diarrhea.

A transgressive blend of stoner comedy, horny teenager movie and Blair Witch reality riff, this no-budget romp through teen New Orleans crosses the line and erases that line in a hell-bent pursuit of hell-bound laughs.

The best argument yet why YouTube novelties were never meant to run at feature length in theatres, or to be taken seriously.

None of this is the least bit funny. Or in any way entertaining. It's just another teenage-clown-in-a-dunk-tank flick. Everyone fire away.

It's kind of a low-budget, grungy looking Superbad without the stupid cop stuff.

Essentially the first feature-length YouTube video.

This Web-inspired Superbad rip-off is simply super bad.

A few moments of inspired comedic genius spread throughout a sophomoric, disturbingly irresponsible little comedy.

An astonishingly worthless piece of work...

This, my friends, is soft-core porn at its rancid worst. Shame on you, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay for producing this swill that features some of the most unlikeable characters ever put to film.

A 'hit'? Not your life. As sure as feigned night follows fabricated day, comes this grainy bore-fest that is perfectly suited for the auteurian land of YouTube.

...a genuinely frightening reflection of our times - a kind of St. Elmo's Fire for the post-terrorist attack generation

Producers Will Ferrell and Adam McCay should know better.

A big fat bunch of nothing. Excruciatingly dull.

It's poorly acted, clumsy, lazy, and as emotionally stunted as any sex comedy ever made, which is quite the accomplishment for a genre that defines itself by dick jokes and bodily humor.

[T]he course of horny teenage sex does not run smooth, particularly not when the clueless misogyny of these very young and even more immature men is given free, uncommented-upon reign...

Sort of a Porky's for the age of YouTube, The Virginity Hit isn't nearly as raunchy as it pretends to be, and not nearly funny enough as it needs to be.

Every generation deserves silly smut of its own