Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Blistering performances.

Matthew (Jonathan Tucker) had a great night losing his virginity stuck in an elevator with a mystery girl. The problem is that the power was out and when he woke up, the girl was gone. There are 100 possibilities in the dorm and all he has are the panties. His roommate Rod is a neanderthal. There is Patty (Emmanuelle Chriqui) with muscle-bound boyfriend Crick. Arlene (Katherine Heigl) and teacher Ms. Stern (Aimee Graham) are dominating feminists. Cynthia (Jaime Pressly) overpowers Matthew with her beauty. Dora (Marissa Ribisi) is alone for her ugliness. Wendy (Larisa Oleynik) from Matthew's high school helps him cross-dress as Francesca.As a comedy, this is not particularly funny. The jokes are simply not that funny. Matthew talks a lot and gets tiresome. There are plenty of beautiful girls in this movie and some of them play interesting if archetypal characters. This tries to be more than another teen comedy but fails to be truly deep. Playing foosball with Arlene is fun. The mystery girl could be a couple of the girls. Matthew should definitely end up with Wendy or Arlene and not Patty. There are some odd notes to hit at the end. Wendy's lesbianism comes out of nowhere. Patty's slut shame problem is badly constructed. This tries to do something but it does not come off perfectly.

For some reason I hired this out on video and I know that I had made a big mistake after 10 minutes. I found this movie to be that uninteresting I decided to watch a majority of the movie on fast forward.What can I say about this movie? Like I said before, it was very uninteresting and I didn't care for it at all.I guess the main reason why I disliked this movie is because it was a chick's flick, and it wasn't something that appealed to me.Well you can't always judge a movie by it's cover.Not to worry, life goes on.Unless this type of movie appeals to you, you may like it.In the meantime, I am giving this the lowest rating possible.1/10.

A teen guy has an intimate encounter both physically and emotionally with a young woman in an elevator during a blackout after a party at a women's dorm. Having of course fallen in love and left with only her panties as a clue, he infiltrates this women's only dorm as a handyman to find his true love amongst the 100 girls living there. The plot sounds at best rather lame and at worst like bad porn. However, despite that initial ridiculous premise, "100 girls" is rather smart, sweet and heartfelt as well as being funny. Don't get me wrong, it's pretty raunchy. There's lots of nudity and sex jokes but it's more than that. It sometimes sounds preachy but I thought it was a good exploration of how north American teen guys could view women and it was interesting to see and hear how the main character evolves. Also worthwhile are the musings on men-women relationships and gender differences. It's from a first-person narrator's perspective and you hear the main character's thoughts somewhat like a diary.One of the things I liked most here is how there were several suitable, very likable girl candidates as "the one" he's searching for. The mystery aspect is not particularly strong but it was very nice not to have just one obvious choice as the love interest as in most movies. Although several of the secondary girls were one-note caricatures, yet fun, the acting was above average with a few stand-outs such as Crick the prick, the misogynistic best friend Rod and the sweet Wendy. The main character did an okay job but his non-verbal acting seemed lacking especially when his face and eyes were supposed to show love. The directing was above par with interesting camera choices that were clever without losing viewer's comprehension. The low budget sometimes made things look like a TV-movie but nothing major or distracting.Guys might be attracted by the sexy outer shell and plot line but be surprised at how thoughtful and engaging it turns out to be. I suspect some guys only looking for low-brow sex comedy hijinks will be disappointed. Girls who might be turned off by the sexy outer shell and plot line would probably like it too because of the many types of non-bimbo women shown, the romantic aspect and the speeches about man-woman differences. "100 girls" is sometimes awkward and superficial, like a teen, but it grows on you as you get to spend more time with it. Catch it if you can, either watching it alone or as a couple.

The premise, as is so often the case with teen comedies, is dumb, particularly when there is an attempt at originality. To make things more absurd, the main male character (Tucker) is a skinny nerd lacking charisma whom the film-makers were trying to pass off as a funny, solid-looking guy. But the height of absurdity is the constant, incessant philosophizing that comes out of Tucker's tireless motor-mouth. His never-ending drivel about men and women is only rarely semi-amusing but it is mostly stupid, and as the movie goes on (and regresses in quality) Tucker's dull musings get decreasingly un-PC and eventually quite PC. This culminates in him coming to the conclusion that women should be in power, la-di-da-di-da, with which his best female chum - a lesbian as it turns out later - obviously agrees. The the worst scene, the one scene that could have single-handedly sunk this bomb even without the other flaws, is when Tucker gives that long, slimy, brown-nosing, I'm-humbler-than-thou, totally retarded speech in front of the virgin dorm professing his love for the unknown girl. This was both embarrassing and annoying to watch. In the end, it turns out that the girl is none other than the dorm's floozy, who - incredibly absurdly - refuses his vomitary offering of love because he doesn't "look at her the way a boy looks at his longed-for birthday present" or some such melodramatic and totally dumb baloney.