Georgia Rule-(Universal Can Wait)

[Spankey]

Well, if this is how Universal's summer is going to start, I don't thinkn we will be missing anything from that studio this summer. From today's NY Post

Headline: IT BLOHANS

Do not take your mom to "Georgia Rule" unless she's Roseanne Barr. You may expect a three-generational chick flick, but what you get is a child-rape comedy.

Uhm...not the way this is being advertised..

Urban audiences will be thoroughly bored by the time the movie gets to work alienating the rural crowd: Out of nowhere, Rachel reveals that for years she was systematically raped by her stepfather (a supersized Cary Elwes, whose agent must have told him he was auditioning to play Shrek). The movie dances around the word rape - instead it employs the curious euphemism, "My stepfather started having sex with me when I was 12," while making it clear the sex was voluntary only on the part of the man

Not sure this should have been Lindsay Lohan's next project...

When the movie tries to be wicked, it is merely smutty. Rachel tries to corrupt the local teen Mormon cowboy, telling him, "You don't have to brush your feet after riding me," then flirting him up by literally spreading her legs and inviting him to take a look. When he admits to being a virgin, she shocks him with a surprise Lewinsky.

Definitely not the role she should have taken...

I didn't laugh once at the dismal jokes - Rachel is "easy to find. Just listen for a scream," says her mother in the opening minutes, a remarkably tasteless line for a movie that will turn on a question of rape. I expected merely to be bored, not repulsed.

Yeah..HD-DVD can have this one. Not going to be a good summer for Universal..