Premature (3 Stars)

It's a big day for Rob Krabbe, a 17-year-old high school student who doesn't look a day over 14. He has an interview with a college admissions officer for Georgetown, so he puts on his best suit to go to school. It's the first day of the rest of his life. But then something even bigger happens. The school's most beautiful girl, Angela Yearwood, makes it clear she's interested in him and invites him to her house that evening. The Georgetown interview goes badly, but Rob doesn't care. What's more important? A good education or losing your virginity? Duh! He rushes to Angela's house with a pocket full of condoms. Heavy petting on the bed. But disaster strikes. Rob comes in his jeans.

Rob wakes up in his bed. It was all a dream. Nervousness about the Georgetown interview is understandable, and a girl like Angela would never want him. But the day repeats itself, exactly the same, right up to the moment when he comes in his jeans on Angela's bed. And he wakes up again.

The day starts again. This time Rob avoids some of the situations, but the day ends the same. So the next day he does different things, he even avoids Angela, but he still has an orgasm and wakes up in bed. He realises he's stuck in a glorified Groundhog Day, so he becomes reckless. He does things he would never have done before. He smokes marijuana in the school bus, he skips classes, he rides a golf cart through the school hallway, and he even grabs his English teacher's breasts.

Not that I blame him. A teacher like Cara Mantella would be a temptation for any teenage boy, especially if he knows there will be no consequences.

At this point you must be asking, if the day restarts when he has an orgasm, why doesn't he just escape the day by not having an orgasm? That was my first thought, but then I remembered my own teenage years. When I was 17, did I ever go a whole day without an orgasm? Impossible!

Okay, one time he almost succeeds. He gets into a fight with his classmate Sally, and after four groin kicks his libido is slowed to a crawl, but it still doesn't stop.

This film has more in common with "Happy Death Day" than "Groundhog Day", but it's a lot funnier, and no one dies. The jokes are repeated, by necessity. Some become funnier with repetition, while the rest just get irritating. I would have enjoyed the film more if it had kept to its core premise, the teenage boy and his orgasms. There are too many distractions from exaggerated peripheral characters, such as the emotional Georgetown admissions officer and the incompetent parents.

Added to that, I don't like that the main character looks so young. I'm sure this was a deliberate choice in the casting, but the actor John Karna looks like a little boy, even though he was 22 at the time. I can't take him seriously as a student in his final year of school.

I like the film's idea, but it could have been better.

Success Rate:  + 3.0

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