‘A Sweet Girl As You’ Review: Lucy Hale Shows Off Rom-Com Chops in Predictable Porn Comedy

The Riedell brothers’ undertake Ayn Carrillo-Gailey’s spicy memoir «Pornology» is mainly paint by the figures, but its leading lady offers charm that is real.

Jul 17, 2020 9:00 am

“A Nice Girl As If You”

Over about ten years ago, journalist Ayn Carrillo-Gailey embarked on a quest to show an ex-boyfriend incorrect. She rolled down a variety of lusty to-dos (head to an intercourse shop, host a adult toy party, discover ways to provide great dental sex) to demonstrate as he had pronounced her to be, “pornphobic. that she was not,” the end result had been the amusing (and enlightening) memoir “Pornology,” which includes now spawned a unique sanitized, if sweet rom-com film adaptation. It’s a precious concept for a film (well, precious enough to encourage lots simply want it, from “The To Do List” to “Sex Drive”), the kind that follows a charming lead because they stumble their means into real pleasure as well as other kinds of individual enlightenment.

Filmmaking brothers Chris and Nick Riedell may possibly not be breaking any new ground along with their “A Nice Girl as she is unsure of how to make it work for her like you,” but the duo at least had the foresight to cast Lucy Hale as Carrillo-Gailey’s movie stand-in, a straight-laced classical violinist who isn’t so much afraid of sex. Similar to in Carrillo-Gailey’s guide (adapted right right here by screenwriter Andrea Marcellus in her own component debut), Lucy’s life is upended because of the revelation that her boyfriend that is somewhat skeezyStephen Friedrich) thinks that Lucy’s disdain for porn is really indicative of her tight relationship with intercourse all together.

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Unexpectedly solitary, Lucy turns into the something that has ever offered her a feeling of control: a list that is to-do. Similar to the genuine occasions that inspired “A Nice Girl as if you,” the story follows Lucy as she attempts to tick a litany off of sexy products, all in hopes of unlocking her very own internal intercourse goddess. While Carrillo-Gailey’s guide had been flinty and fresh, “A Nice Girl as if you” is much more predictable than crazy, more staid than sexy, but at the least Hale injects some refreshing fun into the outing.

Bolstered by an voiceover that is intermittently funny Hale (acting as her very own stressed inner monologue) and a slew of well-rounded supporting turns from Mindy Cohn, Jackie Cruz, and Adhir Kalyan, the movie swiftly moves through a number of anticipated tropes. There’s the inevitable stop by at a masturbator shop, filled with wacky abuse with a minimum of one item and a longform gag that sees a collection of newly bought Ben Wa balls popping away from Lucy’s woman bits at an inopportune time. There’s a shame-filled interaction with an intercourse specialist along with her sidekick psychic, whom joyfully humiliate Lucy in the front of scads of strangers. Hell, there’s a good series for which Lucy exhibits her fiddlin’ skills at a strangely overlit las vegas, nevada bar, most of the far better to show her appearing out of her shell in many ways that don’t include the bed room.

“A Sweet Girl Like You”

And, needless to say, there’s a brand new love interest. While absolutely absolutely nothing concerning the film’s plotting surprises — this can be an element that looks and moves the same as a high-caliber Lifetime film, with a substantial dosage of intercourse toy-based subplots and an affection that is woeful profoundly cheesy dream sequences — that doesn’t suggest there clearly wasn’t pleasure found in Lucy’s burgeoning love with give (Leonidas Gulaptis). The set literally meet while Lucy is trying a straightforward to-do list product (it involves screaming your message “cock!,” also it occurs extremely at the beginning of the movie), and while which may hint at more salacious bits in the future, “A Nice Girl as you” is more focused on turning their relationship right into an affair that is decidedly pg.

Still, the film’s mostly sex-positive way of Lucy’s predicament — beyond, needless to say, that soul-crushing run-in utilizing the specialist and psychic, a retrograde series that seems terribly dated — is refreshing sufficient, whether or not “A Nice woman as you” is never thinking about getting down and dirty, despite its literally porn-centric concept. Funnily sufficient, Hale is next set to star an additional giant screen adaptation of a seriously spicy romance, Sally Thorne’s bestselling “The Hating Game,” and anyone whom doubts she’s the best fit for the sexy, sweet product should search no further than her work right right here to see she’s effective at great intimate work, with a few sexy temperature.

Level: C+

Vertical Entertainment will release “A Nice Girl as if you” on VOD on July 17 friday.

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