Since sex comedies aimed at twentysomethings nowadays would be hip by touching all gender orientation bases, this latest variation on the eternal triangle has Lara Flynn Boyle hot for Josh Charles, who craves Stephen Baldwin, who fancies Lara Flynn Boyle. And thats about it, in another voiceover narrated memoir of university daze in which Charles Eddy takes us back to the co-ed college dorm rites of passage when odd trio roommates (two boys, one girl, one bathroom) bond to grope with life and each other.
Baldwins Stuart is the gross out king, crude, slobbish and sex mad. Flyn Boyles Alex is the drama queen, extravagently unrestrained, while Eddy is neat, studious, buttoned-up and gay. When Andrew Flemings script is comic it works best, cheerful vulgarity and likeably energetic performances yielding some cringe-making laughs and some well-placed smart aleck dialogue. As the trios frankly unlikely story develops and deviates, however, it becomes progressively more pretentious in order to reach the inevitable three in a bed, er, climax and pretend its not prurient, but a meaningful relationship thing.
This is almost spookily similar to last years Three Of Hearts which starred Baldwins prettier but remarkably similar older brother William and Flynn Boyles fellow Twin Peaks alumna Sherilyn Fenn as two points of a bisexual triangle. No one went to see that(ital) effort, and one suspects audiences will give this a cold shoulder, too. After all, sex as hip, flip and a learning experience is all very well, but somewhere along the way it needs a touch of romance.