Movie and Television Reviews

My guess is that Dave White, the movie reviewer for Movies.com is secular, childless, and a liberal. That would also make him of a garden variety in his industry.

Here's part of his review of teen movie Fired Up, which I somehow managed to miss:

What's The Deal: Seriously, an R-rating and this would have been a totally different, way better movie. In the '70s, and even more so in the '80s -- the golden age of teen sex comedies, when you had movies like H.O.T.S. and Zapped! and all sorts of really excellent exploitation going on -- the teens were actually allowed to have sex. They didn't just tease you with euphemisms and wacky body-part-hiding slapstick. They "did it." They were 27-year-olds acting like high-school seniors but they used all the good R-rated words and they played Strip Monopoly and we liked it that way. They were funny because they were raunchy and dirty and sometimes disgusting. But now everything has to be responsible and safe enough for my 12-year-old niece to watch and rely on actual witty dialogue for the laughs. And that doesn't happen nearly enough. It's not a great leap forward in human behavior; it's the de-evolution of comedy.

Any man who looks at the world and thinks that the lack of teen rauchiness and sex (or the promotion thereof) is a societal problem is a deeply disconnected man. I hope, if he ever has a daughter, that she act exactly like the girls did in Porky's. OK. I take it back. I hope she reads Asymmetric and acts like the girls in What's the Deal. I'm not that mean.