“Prime Video Premieres Teen Rom-Com ‘Joli Désastre’ – A Steamy Film for Fans of the After Saga”

Prime Video is launching into a new market, that of the sexy teen movie. The platform, which bought the rights to the After saga during COVID, offered us Perfect Addiction last March. She returns this May 5 with Joli Désastre (of which she is only the broadcaster) which uses the same codes. And the synopsis gives a little insight:

Abby is a wise young girl, but when she meets Travis, an inveterate flirt, her life changes. Travis and Abby make a bet. If the young man loses he will have to abstain from sex for a month, if Abby loses, she will have to live with Travis for a month…

Like the two examples mentioned above, Joli Désastre is also the adaptation of a novel – written by Jamie McGuire – which met with great success. In the cast, Virginia Gardner (Marvel’s Runaways) and Dylan Sprouse (not to be confused with his twin Cole, who plays in Riverdale). A regular of the genre that we saw precisely in After 2 where he was already turning the head of the heroine. A component that was also directed by Roger Kumble, director of Joli Désastre, and to whom we also owe the cult Sex Intentions in 2019.

This new Prime Video film does not hide its ambition to target the same audience. All the ingredients are there: the not-so-shy young girl, the bad-boy heartthrob who ends up falling in love with her, the tension and the torrid scenes…be careful, Joli Disaster is aimed at an informed audience since there is nudity and some olé olé scenes. But don’t expect much more from the plot side.

The film is even in many ways problematic when it comes to consent. After several years of progress on the subject, Joli Désastre is a real step back, conveying sexist clichés (Abby who is only attracted by Travis’s biceps and buttocks, when the latter forces the former to sleep with him after a failed bet) and by staging a toxic relationship.

And we should not be done with these two since a second part – Beautiful Wedding – has already been shot. We imagine that Prime Video will also offer it to its subscribers around the world.