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Premature is a 2014 film directed by Dan Beers, with great performance by Alan Tudyk as supporting actor and with Katie Findlay, a young, charismatic Canadian actress that I've see previously in the movie The Philosophers, 2014, sharing starring roles with John Karna. The Welsh and talented Craig Roberts also appears in a supporting role. The movie is very acceptable, it is a much better movie, in my humble opinion than The Breakfast Club or Karate Kid if we want to talk about coming of age movies, It is not La vie d'Adele obviously because this a comedy, but an entertaining one. The premise of the movie, unfortunately, is an absolute copy cat of the enormous classic "Groundhog Day". A day that repeats itself mysteriously, for a virgin teenager in this case who is struggling to have his life back to normal and trying in the process to lose his virginity. Recommendable

I have to admit that this movie at times made me chuckle. John Karna is not a stunner but he's definitely funny in a stoic way, the dialogues were spicy and the script provided some really funny situations and characters. But the story was pretty shaky, it stayed for instance totally vague what caused the continually recurring day (in spite of some reference to a curse in the end, which came rather out of the blue and didn't really make sense), as did the way it worked (orgasms did the Groundhog trick, but strangely also a kick in the groin?!), and the way it came to an end (yet another orgasm, so what was so different?!).

To be honest: a movie that is entirely based on a teenagers ejaculations seems a bit like the rock bottom of tackiness. Poignantly illustrated by seeing John Karma multiple times lying on his bed with a big wet blotch on the front of his shorts. So I'm slightly embarrassed that in spite of that I still was entertained. Humbly I plead guilty.

The movie is about a boy Rob who gets stuck in a time-loop and has to figure a way out to solve it and get himself out of it. It's funny, enjoyable and downright hilarious as he believes the only way to fix it is to bed the school ummm you know... girl who gets around a lot. Anyway the movie follows him as he navigates his social and professional relationships, college interviews and himself.

The cast is great with a bunch of people I've never heard of before but who do a great job thankfully. John Karna plays Rob our leading man while his best friend Gabrielle is played by the gorgeous Katie Findlay. Carlson Young and Craig Roberts also make an appearance as the male best friend and the girl who gets around. Anyway good acting by them all no complaints there.

VFX and SFX are just fine and overall the movie works pretty well so long as you are aware it's a comedy, teen movie and a lighthearted watch.

Overall a 7/10 from me, good story and good cast. Recommend giving it a watch if you like time-travel/loop style movies or just want a funny, teen comedy to watch. I also love the relationship and friendship he has with Gabrielle who has basically been his best friend since forever. I would have rated this film lower probably a 5/10 or so if I didn't get the ending I wanted but thankfully that's not an issue and we get the perfect ending!

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

This movie will definitely make you feel good. It is stuffed with comedy and most of them is very funny. They didnt go overboard with the comedy which i find is a plus point. The direction and screenplay is nothing special. The cast is good. Everyone was perfect and except for the female lead but she is too cute to be replaced. The story is the star here. The concept is amazing. A little tweak and this would have been much better Overall above average