The Girl Next Door essays

The Girl Next Door essays The Girl next door is a hard movie not to like, its a raunchy good charmed teenage movie. Its not hard to see why it is so successful: it is the rare teen movie that manages to be funny and sincere without going to far. If you compare The Girl Next Door to the movie, American Pie, even though American Pie is very popular it resorts to the style of gross humour. The Girl Next door has a lot of adult situations just like American Pie but its better natured, there isnt a eww moment to be found. Matthew, played by Emile Hirsch is a high school senior, the president of the school government and an all-around nice guy. He only has a couple of friends and compared to everyone else at school hes a nerd. He's recently been accepted to Georgetown University, and is a finalist for a scholarship. But when he goes to fill out his yearbook quote at the very beginning of the movie "What I will never forget about high school is...", he realizes he has nothing to remember because he hasnt done anything outrageous or out of the ordinary. All this changes when Danielle moves in next door, which of course is, The girl next door. He watches her first walk into the house then from his room he can see her getting unchanged, she is absolutely beautiful. She saw him looking and then comes over and asks his parents if she can be shown around the town by Matthew. She then embarrasses him by forcing him to strip in the middle of the street while she shines the car lights onto him. They begin to spend time together, and soon they are going out. Their first kiss stands out strongest, Danielle persuades Matt to go to a school party where he is not invited. Matthew gets told to leave, and Danielle is being talked up by a jock. Matthew then stands there and you can tell he is thinking about what to do. Then he does something he wouldnt usually do, he strolls up to Danielle and j ...