Kevin James Movie:

		List Price: $9.99		Label: Pm Home Video Salesrank: 71740 Released: November 28, 2000
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		MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: DVD

Jailbait Reviews:
Who would buy this?
2005-02-14 - Unfortunately I did, but only because it was $4.99 and reading thye description it sounded like a funny teen comedy. I have always liked teen comedies, American pie, Road trip, Old school, 16 Candles, porky's, Last American virgin. All of these I've enjoyed muliple times. I understand these movies aren't cinematic masterpieces, but they are funny, and sometimes that is exactly what I want, brainless humor. I thought Jailbait might be the same.

I don't care for MTV movies, with Election being the exception, and I didn't know this was an MTV movie. That being said, I think you would need to be under 13 and mildly retarded to get anything from this film.

The story could be funny, but it isn't. The characters (or caricatures) are mindless robots from the leads all the way down to the extras. The movie is not sexy, it's almost anti-sex. poorly written, poorly acted, poorly directed. There is no one to root for or against and at 80 whatever minutes it is a snoozer.

Film is aimed at the road rules real world audience but I can't imagine them enjoying this either.

IT WOULD BE 5 STARS
2004-05-20 - ok, I just got this movie, and I liked it in the first place so it was nice to see it again in a lil better quality, my whole problem with this DVD is the lack of extras, or better yet the lack of having the semi-documentary of the actual Guy the movie was derived from, every time I saw this on MTV right afterwards they would tell the true story... what happened to that? other than that great flick, can see why people think its not so good, but those people are the ones that just wont get it in the first place.

Passafist Reviews Jailbait
2003-06-17 - I must admit, I watched Allan Moyle's Pump Up The Volume religiously for almost a year when I was sophomore in college. So the other day while I was perusing a new blockbuster in my area I came across this curious film. I was interested, so I rented it. I'm so sorry and ask for penance.

JAILBAIT is one of those self aware teenie-bopper flicks which I later found out had it's premiere on MTV. It thinks it a comedy; to bad it isn't funny. It thinks it's camp; to bad it's disjointed and stupid. You know, the nicest thing I can say about this film is that it's in focus.

It stars Kevin Mundy (3000 Miles to Grace Land) as Jim Darling, the most popular senior in his high school. He has a girlfriend named Amber (Regan Pasternak) who won't give him sexual gratification. So he finds it in Gynger, (Alica Purrot) a trailer trash sexpot who's a sophomore. All hell breaks loose when Gynger becomes pregnant, Jim is charged with statutory rape, an Amber is hurt but for some reason is oblivious to how much of an idiot Jim is.

There's not one smart person in this film. Everyone is a dolt, there's no voice of reason, and so about 10 minutes in you've lost all interest. Except the story thinks this is funny, so it throws in zingers left and right, not one of which is funny.

Fortunately the film is short, barely 80 minutes, but early on there are two sequences thrown in because I think someone felt it necessary to stretch the running time. The first scene is of Gynger lying there in her underwear staring at a photo. The next is a four minute Music video, with a bunch of unidentifiable girls (possibly some failed band) singing and a take-off of Britney Spears `Hit Me Baby One More Time.'

The film is also quite sexually explicit for the first 4 or 5 minutes. Then for some reason it's all reigned in. This is probably best explained by its inclusion as an original movie from MTV. I can honestly say this film is the WORST MTV film ever, even worse than JOE'S APARTMENT.

Director Allan Moyle should be ashamed of this film. Especially since some of his other work is far better (Pump Up The Volume and The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag are great). I'll give him this one as a lapse in judgment after that I don't know. I'd rather be in jail than sit through JAILBAIT again.

This movie rules
2002-12-10 - Lol this movie was so funny I almost peed my pants.
I don't see why people are giving it bad revues its not meant to be taken seriously. I think the acting was fabulous and the lead actor was hot!

Hilarious satire, wonderful wit, a must!
2002-02-04 - Let me just say that I absolutely LOVED this movie. And let me also say that have left my teen years some 20 years ago. I am 33 and usually hate to have to suffer through any teen-oriented comedy like "American Pie" I saw recently which I found hopelessly unfunny, boring and stupid. And most of the time, I don't even bother to try watching any other recent films dealing with young people's awakening about sex issues.

This said, I happened to catch "Jailbait" on cable recently and was instantly sucked into the deeply effective editing and camera work involved, along with the very satirical directing and performances. Even though the subject of statuary rape is a serious one, here it is treated in such a way that there is an awareness of the fact that this is high camp cinema and nothing depicted should be treated seriously.

I was particularly impressed with the two young leads which have been brilliantly directed into delivering performances that are in total harmony with the whole tone of the movie. This is a movie making fun of the whole "teen-movies phenomenon" all the while being totally aware of the fact that it is itself a "teen movie" but destined towards a more mature audience.

Many potentially offensive subjects here treated as jokes but the director was brilliant enough to let us the audience see that this is a movie who doesn't take itself seriously. Everything is so farfetched (with often hilarious results) that it tells us that the filmmaker expected nothing else than entertaining its audience with outrageous but finely tuned acting parodies and well-crafted camera work.

I have seen many teen movies such as "Scary Movie" I and II, "American Pie" I and II and none of them compares to the wit and cleverness "Jailbait" displays. A satire is probably the most difficult thing to achieve in cinema. It has to contain a balance between outrageous stunts and self awareness. Most teen movies pile up the gross factor, hoping to make audiences laugh. But here, even though no joke cliché is left unturned, it is done in a constant parody mode which I truly enjoyed.

I don't know why the reviews here were so negative regarding this little jem. Perhaps as I said before, this is probably a movie adult would enjoy more than teenagers. I for one, who is a very harsh critic concerning movies, found this one able to do what most films can't: entertain the hell out of me...