10 Awful Teen Comedies That Are Actually Hilarious

With a film about young adults dating in the modern age, the logical thing would be to have someone write it who is familiar with dating apps and current student life, or who at least has a rudimentary understanding of modern relationships. Instead, Swiped was written and directed by Ann Deborah Fishman, a middle-aged lawyer. And it shows. By god does it show.

Everything about this film is atrocious. It's essentially this genre's answer to The Room. It centers around a freshman at college who is a tech geek, approached by a group of guys to create a new dating app with no strings attached. The movie is marketed as satirical by the director but the writing is so devoid of any wit, charm, commentary or heart that at times it just feels like the most bigoted misogynist wrote this film.

In fact nobody is portrayed in a positive light in the film. It makes out that every male is a sex crazed lunatic constantly evading the trap of commitment, and portrays women as emotionally naive, extremely gullible and fickle to the extreme. The two saving graces of this movie are that Noah Centineo is in it, and that every piece of dialogue is so truly bad that it makes for maximum entertainment value.

The crux of the plot is when Daniel, the lead, finally realizes this app is a bad idea. Good for him right? Well he only realizes this once his mother is on the app and then he gets all Norman Bates, eventually hacking every dating app available and crashing them.

The message of this film is actually a detrimental one. The entire film goes out of its way to paint men with this large brush of being only interested in one thing, and yet the film trumps this by being a covert 90 minute exercise in slut shaming. Basically if you have sex for the fun of it, you're a bad person. Thank you Swiped for teaching us this valuable lesson.