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This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

I wanted to give it 1 star but decided that J.K. Simmon's appearance was worth another star - he does a fine job as the father. I also like Maria Bello but her character as the mother was just too strange to like (some kind of new age hippie, and a later scene with her boy was just creepy).As another viewer said, I was expecting this kind of movie to be more like 'American Pie' - even something like 'The 40 Year Old Virgin' would have been nice, but Pollak seemed to get stranded between those and some stupid coming-of-age teenage flick. Based on the promising opening, I got fooled into watching the rest of this pedestrian comedy that really, really tried to get it up but at the end tried too 'hard' and just became a flaccid mess - pun intended. His friends were at the level of children and it was hard to believe a doctor would still be friends with such tools, much less let them have free access to his apartment. Here's a clue your friend is stupid: if all he ever talks about is his boner, then he's stupid. And I don't know about what kind of friends other guys have but I personally have never had any that openly talk about masturbating all the time - that's ridiculous. We certainly do it but we don't advertise it to everyone like a neon billboard at a stripper's joint! I think I snickered once or twice during the movie, and I was hoping for the last third of the movie to redeem the rest of it and I was sorely mistaken. I don't watch chick flicks and thought this was safely out of that category and I am sad to say it isn't. At least for chicks who are profane and enjoy stupid dick jokes.Kevin Pollak - go back to acting, playing poker and doing that great Christopher Walken imitation because this movie was just an oddball, nothing really hung together (another pun). At least it didn't have 'coming' attractions, which was a plus (my final pun).Skip it and spend the time doing something more enjoyable - like having sex. :-)

The Late Bloomer made me laugh out loud on more than one occasion. Maybe that's because I'm spectacularly childish being as all the humour was of the awkward sexual kind. I don't care, I loved it! I'm surprised by the negative reviews... Maybe I just have a penchant for pre-pubescent 30 year old's because I actually found myself having a crush on Johnny Simmons which made his angsty teenage strops particularly amusing to me. Loved his parents characters, loved his two sidekicks. Didn't find his love interest particularly appealing. But this is a comedy and to me it totally served it's purpose and kept me entertained and amused throughout.

If you are in favor of restoring the patriarchy I highly recommend this movie. If you are afraid to be yourself or be different than boy/girl stereotypes, please watch this movie! If confident women like Beyonce or Emma Watson scare the living day lights out of you, please watch this. Your lack of confidence will be restored by the horrible jokes some middle-aged white man I never heard of - Kevin Pollak- thought would be funny when he directed this movie. He attempts to bring back the dying sexism he must have grown up with in the 1950s to modern culture. He must have had a horrible experience in therapy too or just be incredibly ignorant - and makes fun of people with sexual addictions and mental health issues within the first 5 seconds of the movie. Movie received a good rating on Netflix - 2 stars. It actually should have a 0 (if that's even possible). Has an immature mentality and as a result - is not put together well. The point of the movie is obvious, but horribly written - unfortunately driving home the ignorance and stupidity of the director. Nothing smart about this production. Probably why I never heard of the director.

I found it rather hard to watch...The problem with people who are not able to enjoy certain movies is the lack of ability to suspend disbelief. I've always thought that I was well-endowed with this ability. I could easily put myself in a movie and view it in the way the people behind it wanted it to be seen. I could enjoy the stupidest premise but, this movie was very difficult for me to watch. Maybe it's the acting or the directing. The film appeared to look too serious for its (for the lack of a better word) stupid premise. The drama factor just didn't mix well. Maybe, in my case, it is because the lead just failed to capture my sympathy. I think silly premises, sex-based jokes, like those found in this movie is better off paired with over-the-top farce than some kind of a "teen" drama.