Premature (2014)

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Boring

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

All I see are these reviews comparing the movie to others that are really cornerstone films and its annoying because you aren't gonna watch this movie because you are genuinely looking for an interesting or captivating plot. If you want to laugh and enjoy a raunchy and in my opinion pretty funny movie then give it a try. It's predictable but watchable and I am glad I gave it a watch.

The authors had a brilliant idea to stage Groundhog's Day in the high school environment of American Pie. That was garnered with jokes to which the young viewers would supposedly relate to, young meaning teenagers.After watching Premature i remembered how i found amusing old people's comments about youth disrespecting them. Well, during Premature i felt almost like those senior citizens. As if i lost touch with the world, i laughed a couple of times and found most of the movie on the other side of good taste. The humor is on the trail of Jackass and free online soft porn and makes me wonder what the youth of today actually do in their free time. Watching videos on Youtube is kind of a given, but i'd be curious to know what comes after. Or when they grow up and mature...I mean, the teenage comedies of the old, let's take Porky's (1982) as an example or even American Pie, for that matter, were guilty pleasures and were funny after all. One of the main jokes in Premature is male masturbation which after some repetition becomes uninteresting.

This film is pretty typical of the High School comedy. Some cheap gags centered around toilet humour or sex, a cast of reasonably 1 (or if you're lucky 2) dimensional characters and a heartwarming albeit totally predictable conclusion after 90 minutes.I'm not quite sure why several other reviewers are commenting on Katie Findlay's performance. It hit the top of the bell curve. For those not statistically inclined that means it was average, neither good nor bad but smack on the Mean. The film's lead actor, John Karna, was chosen for the ability to pull a realistic 'cum' face reliably. Considering that was his primary expression for the majority of the movie he was a good choice, his acting ability otherwise. So so. The only consistently funny performance was provided by Craig Roberts who is actually endowed with the ability to act. I've seen him in a couple of other pictures and think this kid has a long acting career ahead of him.The film is essentially a rip off of 'Groundhog Day' which is of course a better film. For 'Premature' to really succeed it could have lowered it's own bar and fully embraced the toilet humour motif. Other films have done this and been hilarious, Premature got caught up in the emotions too much. If it had followed Groundhog's course more similarly and become an example of total plagiarism then the film would have been better although never released. The other option was to embrace the whole 'curse' idea, which was introduced toward the end of the film, and work some gags out of that. However 'Premature' opted for a watered down combination of all three leaving the viewer somewhat unsatisfied.If you go into this not expecting much (because not much is all you'll get) then you won't be disappointed.4.5/10 rounded up to 5

I didn't have high expectations for this movie so maybe that's why I found it to be somewhat decent and amusing. It was definitely a step back for Katie Findlay and Craig Roberts after seeing them play some outstanding roles such as Maggie Landers on The Carrie Diaries and Oliver Tate in Submarine, but it was also nice to see some new faces making their way into the movie industry, especially the lead, John Karna. The plot for the movie is very odd but that's what probably makes it work. It's something different and unheard of. All in all, it had it's good moments and its bad but it was a fun enough watch for a Saturday night.