The Virginity Hit chronicles the journey of 18-year-old Matt having his first sexual encounter and losing his virginity. While trying to capture the tone and raciness of Superbad, this mockumentary can only offer some nudity from a porn star along with sex and masturbating jokes that we have heard before. The movie is funny to a certain degree, but there is less laughing and more of feeling like Matt – fucking uncomfortable.
Matt (Matt Bennett) is the last of his group of friends to lose his virginity. His buddies, Zack (Zack Pearlman), Jacob (Jacob Davich) and Justin (Justin Kline), want to capture Matt losing his virginity but what they get instead are his failures including being yelled at, being thrown in some bushes by a father, and being tricked and humiliated with a blow-up doll. And Zack, his best friend, puts all of it on YouTube for a good laugh at Matt’s expense.
Matt is the perfect character to follow on this journey. He is a nerd but he gets out of the house. He is practical and mature, but his friends convince him to do stupid things. The Virginity Hit does a nice job of sharing what it is like for kids who get caught up in young love and relationships, and are just trying to get anything remotely close to intercourse. All of these kids are just that – kids. They are naive, stupid, and don’t mind taking risks for what they think is “true love.” In that sense, this mockumentary feels legit.
Besides The Virginity Hit not being as funny as I was hoping it would be, another main problem involves how this movie deals with Matt’s parents. His mother died of cancer when he was younger and his dad is a drunk and not a part of his life. This is why he lives with his best bud Zack and his family. But the movie actually shows a tape of his dying mother and it does not even fit the scene at all. The whole thing with his mother having cancer is irrelevant. It is so out of place from the rest of the movie that it comes across as plain distasteful. Her being dead was good enough. The rest was not needed.
This leads me to my disappointment of the movie. The kids are good and believable. The way they act is the way a lot of high schoolers act. We all probably acted somewhat like they did when we were in high school. But instead of wasting time on subjects such as cancer that has no place for a movie like this, The Virginity Hit and it’s directors, Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland, should have spent more time using their brains and turning this movie from just okay and decent to hilarious and entertaining. They must have been thinking with the wrong head. Zing!
“Nature Boy” Brandon Vick is a member of The Music City Film Critics’ Association, the resident film critic of the SoBros Network, and the star of Brandon’s Box Office In Your Mouth. Follow him on Twitter @SirBrandonV and be sure to search #VicksFlicks for all of his latest movie reviews.
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