Iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk
Having spent two series of 24 being variously menaced by terrorists, stalked by mountain lions, trapped by psychotic survivalists, wanted for murder, running from the cops and trying to get away from a possible nuclear explosion, having to look sexy, pout and flicker her eyelashes must have seemed a welcome relief for Elisha Cuthbert.

Zwire.com
The Girl Next Door is peppered with these sage words of wisdom. For a film that is also heavily peppered with sex, profanity and a menagerie of high school students, those three words must be heeded at all costs. If you just "go with it," you might actually find yourself appreciating some of its candor.

Lasvegasmercury.com
If you're going to tout a flick with the tagline "Matt never saw her coming...but all his friends had!" you'd better deliver the goods, or tactically turn such an implication on its head. Either way, the audience is duped here.

Mlive.com
"The Girl Next Door" starts off as a genre picture with a unique premise, and it's reasonably pleasant for about the first 30 minutes or so. After that, it takes a serious nosedive into areas no one would reasonably expect the movie to do. It's crass, it's crude, and most of all, it's just not funny.

Eonline.com
this rises above your regular teen flick. And it boasts one of the best fantasy sequences since Fast Times at Ridgemont High, not to mention plenty of sexy scenes with Cuthbert. Go ahead, get in bed with The Girl Next Door.

Myrtlebeachonline.com
As Danielle, Elisha Cuthbert (TV's "24") is fine in the early scenes, when she's just supposed to look va-va-va-voom sexy. But later, when the mood turns grim and actual acting is called for, she doesn't always have it in her. Basically, Cuthbert can't stop twinkling.

Filmstew.com
Twenty years after Tom Cruise burst onto the scene in Risky Business, Elisha Cuthbert lands her first major role as a porn star – not a hooker – with a heart of gold.

Filmforce.ign.net
Elisha Cuthbert is one of the reasons to go see this flick. Here are some more...

Eye.net
From the auteurs what brung you National Lampoon's Van Wilder, high school comedy The Girl Next Door marks an early bet-closer for 2004's most terrible film -- an impressive achievement, in a year already front-loaded by Ashton Kutcher vehicles and Ice Cube action flicks.

Filmjerk.com
Director Luke Greenwald does a fine job with the story for about an hour, and masterfully finds new ways to sexualize co-star Elisha Cuthbert to Teutonic-plate shifting extremes in every scene. But soon the fun ends when the plot begins to unravel, unnecessary subplots are introduced, and the title character is forgotten for long periods of time.

Washingtontimes.com
A coming-of-age fable with Emile Hirsch as a high school honor student who develops a crush on a slightly older woman — an attractive new neighbor, Elisha Cuthbert, who happens to be a former porn actress.

Journalnow.com
Luke Greenfield's The Girl Next Door is a pleasant surprise on many counts, not the least of which is that this is director Greenfield's second feature after the odious Rob Schneider vehicle The Animal. After that film, there was nowhere for Greenfield to go but up - and he has, by leaps and bounds.

Msnbc.msn.com
Cuthbert, who plays Kiefer Sutherland’s peril-prone daughter on “24,” already is a star — but after sexy supporting roles in “Love Actually” and “Old School,” this is her first shot at the lead.

She’s lovely, with a Marilyn Monroesque combination of innocence and sex appeal. And she and Hirsch have an easy, flirtatious chemistry that transcends the movie’s boy-fantasy premise: As Danielle, a former porn star with a heart of gold, she moves in next door to Matthew to start a new life in suburbia.

Zap2it.com
In the end, though, it's not the tricks that elevate this movie. It's the acting.