This horrible movie is ostensibly about some 16-year-old boy's fight with porn, or something. Apparently if you even once have a "LUST for BUST" you will become addicted to PORN! We are treated to scene after scene of Justin Petersen ogling at nearly fully clothed models while not pleasuring himself in any way, shape or form. Yeah, what a moron, right? And after even one night of looking at porn, he's not performing as well on the swim team and is beginning to notice CURVES on women! And then he wants to go ALL THE WAY with his Superchristian Switchfoot-listening girlfriend while he DOESN'T want to go all the way with Monica, who posts racy pictures of herself showing tiny bits of her bra to viewers on her website. I have personally been more aroused by the underwear section of the JC PENNEY CATALOG than any of the nonsensical and unbelievably lame "porn" in this movie.
But to digress from other commenters, I present to you, the reader, this conundrum: Who REALLY has the "problem" in this movie? Is it...
Justin's Mom, who obsesses over her sons desires for sexual pleasure to the point where she attempts to spy on his activities? And where a 3rd place finish in a state swim meet is so bad she refuses to cheer for her son or look at him in the face? What a great mom! (And WHY is she swimming in the SCHOOL pool during the school day? Doesn't she have a job involving computers although she has no idea how to use them?)
Justin's Dad, who goes from a total nonchalant couldn't care less attitude about Justin's desires for the...uhh...clothed....female body to the point where he becomes physically violent? This AFTER he says it's normal to want to look at these pictures? What a great dad! (As an aside, is anyone else reminded of Al Bundy by this guy?)
Justin's brother, who is apparently so stupid that he sticks a CD of porn in his underwear drawer (pssst, kid, your mom does your laundry) labeled "VIRGIN VAGINAS"? And hey, kid, stay out of your bro's room and stay off his computer. No wonder Justin's going crazy: he has NO PRIVACY FROM HIS FAMILY.
Justin's girlfriend, who is the queen of mixed signals in this movie? Oh, and after he admits he "has a problem" (which I think is his caffeine addiction, if I'm not mistaken), she pretty much refuses to help or talk to him....then says she'll help him. Uhhh...right.
The librarian (or "media assistant" if you will) who doesn't realize the "porn site" (actually it looks like something I'd see on some vain girl's xanga or livejournal) Justin is looking at in the library is MONICA'S OWN SITE who is sitting 10 FEET AWAY.
Or how about the letter-wearing seniors that jeremy befriends or his swim team teammates. Hey guys, in the showers, you make fun of the guy with the foreskin or whatever, not the guy who sends you "porn"!
Or perhaps the person with the REAL problem in this movie: Monica! This girl runs a web site of lame teases (I just can't bring myself to call it a "porn site") of herself and apparently likes to have sex in her parents' bad with her grandparents looking on from their portraits on the wall. Oh, and if some guy refuses her advances, she slams her head into the sink and beats herself up. Umm....and JUSTIN is the one with the problem?
Or perhaps the real problem is with Lifetime and the people who take this puerile garbage seriously. We are treated TWICE to scenes of a near-naked Jeremy Sumpter in all his shapely glory. Him in his underwear or tight swimpants with his naughty bits outlined for all the prepubescent girls to ogle over is arguably more pornographic than anything justin ever looks at on his computer. And at the commercials for this showing, I got treated to middle-aged women talking about having "SEX on the BEACH" in the most lurid ways possible. But it's apparently only a problem when a boy desires sexual pleasure, not women. Hypocrites.
But to digress from other commenters, I present to you, the reader, this conundrum: Who REALLY has the "problem" in this movie? Is it...
Justin's Mom, who obsesses over her sons desires for sexual pleasure to the point where she attempts to spy on his activities? And where a 3rd place finish in a state swim meet is so bad she refuses to cheer for her son or look at him in the face? What a great mom! (And WHY is she swimming in the SCHOOL pool during the school day? Doesn't she have a job involving computers although she has no idea how to use them?)
Justin's Dad, who goes from a total nonchalant couldn't care less attitude about Justin's desires for the...uhh...clothed....female body to the point where he becomes physically violent? This AFTER he says it's normal to want to look at these pictures? What a great dad! (As an aside, is anyone else reminded of Al Bundy by this guy?)
Justin's brother, who is apparently so stupid that he sticks a CD of porn in his underwear drawer (pssst, kid, your mom does your laundry) labeled "VIRGIN VAGINAS"? And hey, kid, stay out of your bro's room and stay off his computer. No wonder Justin's going crazy: he has NO PRIVACY FROM HIS FAMILY.
Justin's girlfriend, who is the queen of mixed signals in this movie? Oh, and after he admits he "has a problem" (which I think is his caffeine addiction, if I'm not mistaken), she pretty much refuses to help or talk to him....then says she'll help him. Uhhh...right.
The librarian (or "media assistant" if you will) who doesn't realize the "porn site" (actually it looks like something I'd see on some vain girl's xanga or livejournal) Justin is looking at in the library is MONICA'S OWN SITE who is sitting 10 FEET AWAY.
Or how about the letter-wearing seniors that jeremy befriends or his swim team teammates. Hey guys, in the showers, you make fun of the guy with the foreskin or whatever, not the guy who sends you "porn"!
Or perhaps the person with the REAL problem in this movie: Monica! This girl runs a web site of lame teases (I just can't bring myself to call it a "porn site") of herself and apparently likes to have sex in her parents' bad with her grandparents looking on from their portraits on the wall. Oh, and if some guy refuses her advances, she slams her head into the sink and beats herself up. Umm....and JUSTIN is the one with the problem?
Or perhaps the real problem is with Lifetime and the people who take this puerile garbage seriously. We are treated TWICE to scenes of a near-naked Jeremy Sumpter in all his shapely glory. Him in his underwear or tight swimpants with his naughty bits outlined for all the prepubescent girls to ogle over is arguably more pornographic than anything justin ever looks at on his computer. And at the commercials for this showing, I got treated to middle-aged women talking about having "SEX on the BEACH" in the most lurid ways possible. But it's apparently only a problem when a boy desires sexual pleasure, not women. Hypocrites.