Sadie Leblanc in Jailbait! (2000)

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Jailbait! is a broad comedy produced by MTV. Every character is a caricature of a person, and the acting is way over the top. The music is MTV at it's worst. By now, you're thinking I hated this film. Quite the opposite, I was thoroughly entertained.

The IMDB comments are all over the place. Nearly everyone who commented used politically correct disclaimers about the evils of underage sex, and one even went to far as to say the movie had no value. He admitted that the film "startled him into laughing out loud," but wasn't actually funny. I'm sorry, but if a film makes me laugh out loud several times, it is funny. Further, if I am still awake and laughing at the end, it is an entertaining movie.

Lets set the players:

Kevin Mundy as Adam, the most popular senior at his High School. Mary Gross and Matt Frewer as his religious parents Reagan Pasternak as Amber, narrator of the story, Adam's steady, and a career virgin, who is saving herself for marriage. Alycia Purrott as Gynger, 15 1/2 year old nymphette who seduces Adam, and ends up pregnant. Scott McCord as Chuck Clopperman, the cheap attorney hired to defend Adam.

As the story opens, Amber is talking about her nearly perfect boyfriend (except for some small problems in their senior year). She mentions that, although there is a lot of sex going on in high school, she thinks waiting is better, and the people having sex aren't having fun doing it. During the narration, we are watching examples of high school couples "doing it," or getting ready to. One of the couples is doing it in a car. This is an unknown actress. I would like to identify her, as she had the only actual exposure in the film.

Adam is lured by Gynger, and does her in the bathroom of the local Little Chicken. His best friends promise not to tell, then spread it all over the high school. Meanwhile, Adam and Gynger are finding lots of opportunities. Shortly after Adam's 18th birthday party, Gynger discovers she is pregnant. They tell Adam's parents, or, to be more exact, she tells Adam's parents over dinner. "I am pregnant, you know, like Mary was with Jesus, only I know who the father was." The mothers reaction was to support the baby, because, after all, "A baby is a gift from God, a precious bundle of joy, even if it is a bastard."

Adam and Gynger had been hoping for money for an abortion, so they tried Ginger's mother, who said, "Why you no good leg spreadin' over-ovulatin' little slut." Gynger's mother then tried to stone them with household items. The police are called, and Gynger's mother is off to jail, but the statutory rape becomes a matter of police record. When the local district attorney, who is running for mayor, decides to make an example of Adam as a campaign issue, and go for the maximum penalty of 30 years, the fun really starts.

Many see this film as showing what a terrible problem underage sex is, but I don't agree. The problem here was not the age of Ginger, or the age of Adam. In fact, she was the sexual aggressor, and was by far the more mature of the two.

The real problem was irresponsible sex without protection. Had either of them thought to use birth control, there would have been no movie to make. While the film is mostly tongue in cheek and played for laughs, it does show the consequences of irresponsible reproductive behavior, and should probably be required viewing for all young teens.

IMDB Summary: 4.2 out of 10

Written by: Tuna ...courtesy of Scoopy.net