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The Boy Next Door (2015), R, ★

J. Lo and this hunky boy having a little...sensual moment.
Have y'all seen Fatal Attraction, Obsessed, The Girl Next Door or Risky Business? If you take all of those four movies and little components and mix them all up, you get this product. Of course, stalkers and sexual predators would be all over the area or in a neighborhood. This movie is that ad of that particular warning. Therefore, it is an ad that has a hunky guy that should belong in modeling, a very beautiful woman, sex, innuendo, and a flashback of a car accident that adds up to a miscalculated, lugubrious "erotic" thriller.

I'm not going to waste time typing this large summary. Ok, Jennifer Lopez plays Claire Peterson, a high school literature teacher and Ryan Guzman plays a high school kid named Noah Sandborn. Noah moves next door (duh!) with his uncle and is attracted to this vulnerable and lonely older woman who is very pretty because she is J. Lo. As things begin to click between them, Claire and Noah have a one-night stand. It is supposedly the highlight of the trailer and the movie. Unfortunately, however, it is not erotic or sexy enough to categorize it as a "hot sex" scene because believe it or not, fellas, J. Lo has a no-nudity clause in her contract. Plus, the nudity that is classified in the R-rating is irrelevant and gratuitous in another scene that makes no sense. And, you know where this is going...just watch Fatal Attraction and it'll be exactly like this movie except the boy is the stalker.

Kristin Chenoweth.
The theme of a student and teacher relationship just does not convince us that there is a legitimate threat, it is more like a terrible, poorly executed lesson on a learning video. I mean, who has the time to post many racy photos in the classroom and who would go through all that trouble? Plus, don't the schools have security systems to investigate when this person enter the classroom whether or not he is the culprit?

Why do I give this one star? Well, I think Kristin Chenoweth has the only good role that does not look like that her character belongs in Mars. She plays it well, chewing the scenery with pep and corniness. Lopez looks like she does not know how to act, Guzman either grins or screams or just stares at Lopez like he is in his own Twilight movie. John Corbett is, well, there supposedly playing a character.

This movie is a parody of the "erotic thriller" genre, which, in my opinion, is an overrated genre. It goes way over-the-top with the predictable climax. However, it ends well for all I care. In the end, did I have fun? No. There are illogical plot holes and laughable schemes throughout the movie that I cannot give away. But, this is a wretched movie that wastes Jennifer Lopez's talent that I felt disappointed in her choice of making the movie. This tries so hard to be movie about a lesson of sexual obsession and chemistry between a student and a teacher. But, it is an entertaining ad about it and it is very, very bad.

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