Through a series of comedy events, the movie follows Rick Stevens, the young guy who crush on his friend Nina Pennington. Nina has a boyfriend, Kevin, who is Rick's friend. When they are separated, Rick makes a bid with Kevin that he will get in a relationship with Nina before Arbor Day. Unfortunately, all things turn badly when he involved into a bad relationship with his best friend's mother and the bigger catastrophe happens when many people get into the jail because of him.
Aside from a few lines of juicy bad language, Gomez plays the innocent in this fast-paced screwball farce, which is full of cheerful vulgarity but dangerously low on wit, charm or narrative logic.
A number of really talented people make appearances in the wretchedly unfunny teen sex comedy Behaving Badly; so many that you wonder if a producer has incriminating photos stashed somewhere.
For a comedy that so desperately wants to be rude and sexy, this movie is remarkably timid. It does a great job putting up a front as an anarchic laugh riot, but the genuinely funny moments are few and far between.
Rick's ultimate journey becomes less about atonement than simply getting the girl, and moral reclamation reveals itself as the vehicle by which to peddle a bunch of people behaving badly.
Behaving Badly is 97 minutes in a search of a laugh, each of them so punishing that viewers are left to spend most of the movie trying to figure out what went wrong.
