Movie Review: Dad Crush (2017) seen on Netflix and Tubi

Thriller/horror; not recommended for young children; violence, sexuality, nudity, coarse language, partial gory scenes

This movie follows a teenage girl who fights for the affection of her new teacher who is her best friend’s father.

I’m not even going to go into detail about what happens in this movie. It seems like every movie follows the same formula with drama to say the least. So much for me wanting to incorporate new genres into my movie collection. However, I will say this. There is so much wrong with this movie, it’s ridiculous. There are multiple relationships and situations shown in this movie which would not be allowed in the real world because of conflict of interest. I’m not just talking about the sexual aspect. The teacher’s daughter is in his class in the movie which would be frowned upon in the real world due to the possibility of her receiving preferential treatment due to her personal position in her teacher’s life. Also, the teacher spends a lot of time at his student’s house and thus treats her as if she is a member of his family and not just a student while he supposedly dates the girl’s mother. If this wasn’t bad enough, he gives her rides back and forth to school, showers in her home and doesn’t display any amount of professionalism around her except for when he’s actually teaching. I mean what happened to society? There used to be rules that everybody was treated as an equal and in most schools, (at least as far as I know,) teachers would automatically be fired for having any sort of relationship outside of school as this would be deemed unfair to other students as the student in question is likely to be treated better than all of the others, maybe by being given good grades without having to earn them, ETC. In my opinion, this movie breaks that rule.

On a personal level, this movie tends to actually illustrate basically what was happening in my brain during and after the events that took place in my first relationship with the only difference being that actors were playing the roles and it was a male teacher who was the girl attempted to lure away from her father. This movie really tugs me the wrong way and anybody who asks me what was going on in my brain for all those years should just watch this movie. I mean, you have the girl who befriends the teacher’s daughter just to get close to her father and they eventually have sex which the daughter walks in on them having, he grows to regret it but the girl keeps pursuing him over and over again and though she loses the battle in the end, her influence made it so their once strong father daughter bond was severely damaged to the point where she doesn’t forgive her dad until pretty much the very end of the movie.

Now, take everything I just wrote and attribute it to myself. I believed that my ex girlfriend was at one point getting too close to my mother. Eventually, we broke up but my mother had been influenced by her to a degree that even though we finished dating, she would still go to her house and be seduced by her when she went there and eventually, mom saw the light and tried to go away but she wouldn’t stop pursuing her. This all came to an end when she moved away yet in the years following her departure, I was haunted by the thought of her once welcome presence now having turned evil and having indirectly influenced not only mom’s life but mine as well and putting me in a situation where I believe she has turned mom against me while mom was basically left with an indirect warning to basically watch her step because she had made my life miserable to the point where every step mom took that didn’t involve me was a step towards me ex. If you’re wondering what this has to do with the movie, it’s because our relationship was just as severely damaged as the girl and her father’s was due to her influence. There’s numerous similarities between this movie and the problems I had in my teenage years. You know, watching this movie really makes me not want another girlfriend because I may once again fall victim to pretty much the same thing the teacher’s daughter did in this movie and at my age, I don’t know if i can come back from it. It took mom and I five years to even begin to mend our once severely damaged relationship. If this happens again, maybe I won’t be able to this time.

The bottom line is that this movie clearly brings back bad memories of my failed first relationship. This will surely negatively effect the rating of this film. I have to be honest in saying there was not one good scene or at least any scenes that did not bring me back to the horrible time my life was in my teenage years. I hope I never see it again.

Movie rating: 0 out of 10

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