Review: 100 Girls


College kid Jonathan Tucker meets a girl (but never sees her- a bit contrived, admittedly) in an elevator during a blackout, and after a little chitchat, they make whoopee. Next morning, he wakes up, and she’s gone. He spends the rest of the film trying to find out who she was, even getting a job as a maintenance man to enter the girls dormitory. The suspects include supposed bad girl Emmanuelle Chriqui, militant tomboy Katherine Heigl, impossibly pretty girl Jaime Pressly, the smart (but ‘ugly duckling’) Marissa Ribisi, and feminist teacher (and possible S&M freak) Aimee Graham. The unbelievably adorable Larisa Oleynik, plays a girl who used to go to school with Tucker, and agrees to help him in his search. James DeBello plays his grotesque roommate, who has attached a set of weights to his…well, you don’t want to know. Johnny Green plays Chriqui’s gum-chewing, abusive boyfriend.

 

This 2000 teen comedy from writer-director Michael Davis is far from the worst of the lot, thanks mostly to an entertaining cast (even DeBello has his moments, despite being truly disgusting at times) and a cute idea. Having said that, Pressly and Chriqui should have swapped roles, with neither being the slightest bit convincing (Chriqui a slut? Pressly pure? What kind of crack you on, Mr.  Davis? Have you not seen every other role Pressly has ever played?), and it does hurt the film quite a bit. Extremely formulaic, too, which is an even bigger problem, the ending is never in doubt (though at the same time, an 11th hour revelation about one of the girls is a total cheat, and never adequately foreshadowed to make it credible). But overall, it’s pretty likeable and sometimes funny. It also helps that Chriqui and Heigl are totally hot.

 

Rating: C+

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