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22 out of 29 people found the following comment useful :-
The boy next door, exploring... women., 5 January 2005

Author: Veronika from Sweden

This movie has its obvious drawbacks. For instance, pretty much all the women/girls in the movie are very attractive. Even the ugly girls aren't really that ugly. Then we have the quasi/anti-feminism message, which will probably annoy people. And there are lots of stereotypes and clichés throughout the movie. In fact, the movie is actually _based_ on stereotypes, mainly those concerning the roles and rules of gender and courtship.

But all that is sorta the point! (Except the "all girls are pretty"-bit, which annoys me.) So, if you're not too hung up on the flaws, "100 Girls" is actually rather funny! Laughing out loud isn't hard at all. The main character, Matthew, is sorta cute, in a completely undate-able sorta way. (Nice guys do finish last. Sorry!) The girls are neurotic and predictable. But the story isn't _too_ predictable either. (After all, _you_ try making an original High School movie! Iz not that easy I tell you.)

But this banality is probably the point of the movie, and it works as a whole. Even if you don't really care whether Matthew ever finds his lost mystery-love or not, it's still entertaining to watch his quest for love, and to hear the sometimes utterly blunt facts of life and genderhood that are spelled along the way. (Yes, most young men do find it stressful to hit on girls. Really? And yes, men and women may have some difficulties communicating with each other, because they have different experiences and different goals.)

So, in summary: A round of applause for banality and simple stories, as long as they're delivered with warm humor and jokes about the human anatomy!

7/10

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21 out of 28 people found the following comment useful :-
I generally liked it, 30 June 2003
Author: sweetgrl313 from nj

I actually like 100 girls, it tried to show you the inner mind of how a guy thinks and probably not all guys think like that but i think a few deep down. Its pretty much all about a guy who met a girl in the elevator and fell in love but unfortunately never saw her face. It seems a little unlikely but who knows it could happen. I give the movie a 8/10 it had some good humor and laughs and it did keep my interest up the WHOLE movie. Also it just seemed like a good time, I would recommend this to anyone!

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31 out of 49 people found the following comment useful :-
Revelating, 1 June 2004
Author: Andrew King from Bucharest, Romania

When this movie first appeared i wanted to watch it with my friends, laugh a lot, maybe make out with my girlfriend, i don't know. Still i never got the chance to do this, so i saw it just now alone in my dorm room. I must say that it was pretty much different from what i expected. I thought it would be something like "American Pie", or "Van Wilder", but it turned out to be more than just that. This movie really made me think about certain aspects regarding men and women, and i found out that much of the stuff mentioned is true and very well sustained by arguments. Overall it is a movie that gives a young person much to think about.

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18 out of 25 people found the following comment useful :-
A fun little college campus romp for the guys, 7 April 2002

Author: George Parker from Orange County, CA USA

"100 Girls" is a slightly naive comedy romp about a college freshman who has sex with an unknown coed on an elevator during a blackout and then spends the entire run time searching the girls' dorm for his "Cinderella". Tucker is at the center of this fun little romp which is chock full of babes but has little nudity, no raunch, and some heart. Unsophisticated but fun, creative though cliche, "100 Girls" aptly dignifies women without deifying them during the self-narrated dissertation on the difference between the sexes. Most likely to be enjoyed by college age men and older guys, like me, who remember their college years with nostalgia.

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10 out of 12 people found the following comment useful :-
Not a bad little film, 1 March 2003

Author: Boy_Anya from Ny, Ny

Sometimes you want to watch a film that makes you think a bit...but not too much...makes you laugh and just veg out and watch. This is that film. It's not a brilliant film. It doesn't make you want to change the world. It was just cute and fun and has a happy ending....what more could you want when you're sitting back flipping through channels on a boring saturday afternoon?

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13 out of 18 people found the following comment useful :-
2nd Time Around, 14 June 2003
Author: anitatanky

I had to scan the imdb for other users who realized this was the exact same movie as Eight Days A Week, to make sure I was not inadvertently plagiarizing someone else's comment. Several others commenting on the imdb noticed the same thing.

The screen writer of this movie made good use of his work...he used the same screen play twice! Take one movie you made, but change the character from a high school student to a college one, use the same voice over technique, use the same dialogue but change some of it around and have a thesaurus handy, even add a friend who is obsessed with doing odd things to his genitalia and voicing his perspectives regarding women, and what do you get? Two teen/young adult movies for the work of one!

I found both movies enjoyable though. So I am not necessarily criticizing his work. Heck, I might be even a little jealous that he was able to sale the same screen play twice. I guess we all have done it at one time or another...take some work for school or work and use it as a template for some other work without being very original the second time around. But again, I more or less liked the movie, or both, movies, which is really the same movie. Yikes!!! What does that say about me?

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7 out of 9 people found the following comment useful :-
A great teen comedy that should've been in theaters., 14 April 2003

Author: ukwildcats101 from Oak Park, Illinois

100 girls is about pretty much every man's dream: a mysterious one-night stand with a gorgeous girl. The problem is, Matthew (Jonathan Tucker) has no clue who the girl is and absolutely needs to find out.

I agree with many other reviewer that this reminds one of "American Pie" but this movie reaches a much more profound intellectual girls, reaching its high points during the foosball matches between Matthew and Arlene (Katherine Heigl). I could not help but laugh at James DeBello's character Rod and the movie was all-around great. Definitely a 9 out of 10!

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6 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :-
Thinks it's the cleverest movie ever, 27 August 2007

Author: solariumictv from United States

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Other comments have called this movie "intelligent" and claim that although our plucky lead is obviously too verbose to be believable, it's still a refreshing portrayal of the college-male psyche. Unfortunately, it takes a little more than a well-versed guy who has some strong opinions about men and women to forge a good romantic comedy.

Either a rom-com is total fluff, in which men and women speak in bouncy blips of whitewashed cuteness, and everything predictably turns out OK ("The Holiday," "Because I Said So," or any other nonsense) OR it's the smarter kind, with men and women speaking like real men and women, and the relationship between them portrayed a little more real as well (i.e. "When Harry Met Sally" or "Knocked Up"). You have to pick one -- it can't be both ways. A movie in which young men sit around waxing sexuality needs a realistic plot to compliment its didactic "insights" into the real world of men and women, something like "Clerks" did. In this tripe, Matt's alleged brilliant perception is juxtaposed with an absurd, simplistic plot and the most one-dimensional stock characters since "Porky's." Are we supposed to take it seriously or not? The worst part is that while Matt's insight is totally subjective and problematic, it's presented as scripture with no one questioning it. At least when Randall runs his month with all of his crazy theories, Dante (and others) present discord. In this one, especially when so many of his opinions are presented as voice-over, there's no one to question it (i.e. he warns us early to always be wary of girls who don't wear makeup, and any guy who has a single female friend is left shaking his head in awe). We don't get any help from the female characters, who either smile and marvel at Matt's dogmatic spew (i.e. Wendy) or argue with him initially but then eventually come around (i.e. Arlene). He never grows or changes, and since his opinions are the only interesting thing about the movie (given that there's barely a plot), we're left feeling flat.

I just can't deal with a movie whose writer apparently feels like the best way to endear us to his lead is to have Matt speak in a laundry list of angry-loner-guy sexist drivel and snarky "questions of life" like the ones that were floating around the internet circa 1998 (I was half expecting him to charm some girl by asking, "so, why don't sheep shrink when it rains?"). Or maybe it'd be better to make us like him by having him sneak into girls' rooms under false auspices, dress up like a girl and lie to them, and never pay for either. Or maybe he should get all self-righteous and call his roommate sexist and then display exactly the same closed-mindedness that he condemns. Try not to be annoyed when he vents his anti-feminist "everyone is a sexist, guys and girls" idiocy in front of his demonized women's studies professor and ALL THE GIRLS IN THE CLASS immediately applaud him. Lucky Matt, the one guy who understands, lost somewhere in a mindless movie full of mindless girls.

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8 out of 12 people found the following comment useful :-
If they can get an r rating, they'll do well!, 14 January 2001

Author: Scoopy from Budapest

This is a pretty cute coming-of-age flick which has been languishing in distributor purgatory for more than a year. An indy filmed in late 1999, it was hoped to be a summer youth comedy, ala American Pie, but it never managed to work out a US distribution deal, and it may still not have one. They are now talking on the official web site about releasing it in the summer of 2001 in the USA, even though it has already been playing for some months across the world.

They have some hot young names in the cast: Jaime Pressly (the major babe of "Poison Ivy 3"), Marissa Ribisi ("Grown Ups"; she's Giovanni's twin sister), Katherine Heigl ("Roswell")

And I like the concept. Matt is a college freshman, a virgin, a bright and sensitive kid but basically a dweeb. Early in the year he is trapped in an elevator with a girl during a blackout, they have a tremendous heartfelt discussion, they make love, but he never sees her face. When he wakes up, she's gone without a trace. Ignoring the fact that she would have left a note if she wanted to see him again, Matt knows that he's found his true love, and will have to find her. All he knows is that she resides in a certain dorm with 100 residents, so he has to concoct a series of ploys in order to gain admittance to the building and the trust of the girls. One of the girls becomes his accomplice, and between them they come up with two different plans. Sometimes Matt is the uniformed maintenance man who will take care of the girls dorm. Sometimes he's in drag as a woman.

In the course of the semester, he really learns a lot about women while searching for his honey. He learns so much that after his speech to 100 open windows, begging his secret lover to reveal her identity, she does not, but all the other hetero girls claim they were the one! He can basically have any of them, and he's come to like many of them during the year, but he's a romantic and an honorable man, so he continues his search for his true love.

Other salient points:

There isn't much flesh, but there is plenty of really dirty talk. Dora, the intellectual girl, likes to read Henry Miller and D.H, Lawrence out loud, for example, and the taboo "c" word appears in the reading, along with some very lustful situations! When the girls are completely at ease, when they are drunk and Matt is in drag, they tell some hilarious stories to each other. One night each of them shares her funniest stories about oral sex. I suppose there is a real risk of NC-17 in the USA, for the language, and for the fact that one of the girls is openly promiscuous, seduces Matt, and obviously is really into it, both with her speech and her hips. It was some darned good lovin', not movie sex at all, but real people getting used to each other and having problems, then working it out.

Matt's own roommate is a doofy misogynist who is into "penis power", a system in which he gradually ties larger and larger weights to his penis, to lengthen and strengthen it. And of course, there is the requisite evil dude who exploits women.

Believe it or not, it is an intelligent movie. Possibly too intelligent for this genre. In fact, the dialogue is probably too intelligent for this or any other genre. The characters actually talk in written English rather than spoken English, the kind of poetic rhapsodies that nobody is capable of in real life, not JFK or Churchill or anybody else. Matt's speech to the 100 open windows is the spiritual descendant of Kevin Costner's famous speech in Bull Durham, too articulate to really be off the cuff, and it has the same impact on all 100 girls that Costner's words had on Sarandon.

But I don't think we need to consider that a weakness. Let's just say that the movie walks a fine line between literate and literary, and sometimes it may cross over the line a bit too far, but you'll allow it because it isn't boring and it produces the desired effect. Hope they get a US distributor, and I hope they can get an r-rating, because I think a lot of young people will like this funny and sincere film.

I won't tell you it's a great work of genius, and I won't say it's a sure hit, but I think it deserves a chance to let the popular jury make that call. It has a strong pro-female stance in that it portrays women as the only real grown-ups in the world, and Matt's experience in drag really sensitizes him to how much abuse women have to tolerate, so it could reach out to a female audience, assuming the rough talk is OK with them.

Young guys should like it, and learn from it. Some of them will buy a ticket just to see Katherine Heigl playing enthusiastic foosball in her bra. And I predict they won't demand a refund.

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Casts its net too wide..., 21 August 2005
Author: JoeytheBrit from www.moviemoviesite.com

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The American teen comedy genre is so overburdened these days that any addition has to be something special to get noticed. Unfortunately, Michael Davis's 100 Girls, while reasonably well-written, contains little to set it apart from others of its ilk, a fact which might explain why it was released direct to video in the States.

Jonathan Tucker (Virgin Suicides) plays Matthew, a slightly geeky college kid who enjoys a one-night stand with a girl in a lift during a blackout. He awakens in the morning to find himself alone in the lift with only a pair of his fellow standee's panties for company, and a major case of the hots for their owner. The remaining 93 minutes of the movie follows Matthew's increasingly bizarre attempts to identify his mystery lover from one of 100 girls living in the college dorms.

A movie like this, you know it's only a matter of time before the male protagonist finds himself crammed into female clothes; it's a development that is as obvious as it is banal, and there lies one of this movies main faults: like a bright pupil prone to fooling around at the back of the class, 100 Girls swings from amusing (if hardly original) insight to juvenile antics and back again with annoying regularity. It's almost as if writer/director Davies is over-conscious of the diversity of his target audience and is trying to please them all by, for example, injecting unnecessary female nudity between some bright philosophical musing on the differences between men and women; while this reviewer enjoys the female form as much as the next man, I feel a movie that contains its exposure should at least take a shot at justifying its inclusion instead of simply yelling HERE'S A T-- SHOT TO KEEP THE BOYS INTERESTED.

Unfortunately, this is the problem throughout the movie: Davis objectifies women throughout (all the women in the dorm are hotties – the one exception being Doris (Marissa Ribisi) who is, of course, a hottie disguised as a not-hottie) while professing to deify them. Even as Matthew – who hardly ever shuts up – waxes lyrical about the majesty of women, the camera lingers lovingly over the silky curves of a mystery woman, who just happens to be that smart, bookish, not-hottie we were talking about earlier, the missing part of her life filled now that she knows that she too can be the object of male lust. And Matthew's actions throughout border on the pervy: he infests the girl's dorm with white mice so that he, in the guise of a maintenance man, can closely inspect the contents of their panties drawers to find the matching bra to the panties he possesses; he prowls their rooms at the weekend (when found by one girl crouching in her shower the girl, who turns out to be an old school friend, reminisces with him about the good old days instead of reporting him to the authorities); and he wins their confidence through lies and deceit. Mind you, as the only two other males in the flick are a narcissistic bully/rapist and a misogynistic, grungy flatmate who spends most of the movie wearing a device to enlarge a certain part of his anatomy, it's hardly surprising that all the women seem to find him adorable.

Many of Matthew's observations manage to amuse while they attempt to encapsulate every thought every man has ever had about the differences between the sexes, and it's clear that Davis has invested a lot of thought in the script. It has to be said that the movie is never boring, but you get the impression that he listed all these observations and then tried to figure out a story in which he could include them all. Hardly anybody has a half-way normal conversation: instead of talking to one another, they're all too busy making wry observations so that we never really become interested in them as characters.

Bottom line: in trying to cater for the entire teenage spectrum, Davis has cast his net too wide, thereby weakening what is intended to be an essentially sweet-natured tale. While the final result is vastly superior to much of the teen dross out there, and the quality of the writing suggests Davis has talent, it still falls short.

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