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Mitchell Lichtenstein offers a painfully funny scenario about denying human nature

You could never accuse Mitchell Lichtenstein (son of artist Roy) of pandering to market expectations. His first feature, "Teeth," is a dark, gory and hilarious sendup of contemporary prudery, teen horror films, Christian abstinence programs, rampant cultural misogyny and latent gynophobia in ancient mythology that plays serial castration by vagina dentata for laughs. The movie re-imagines the ancient myth as the mortifying personal problem of a sweet, unsullied American teen who is having a hard time remaining unsullied and whose awesome powers are as big a surprise to her as they are to her date-raping boyfriend, only not as painful. [...]

di Carina Chocano, articolo completo (4110 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 18 gennaio 2008