Starring Matt Bennett and Zack Pearlman. Rated 14A.

Hollywood knows you’re a freaky-monkey Internet voyeur. You like looking at strangers’ vacation photos, watching videos of other people’s babies laughing their asses off, and doing whatever else you do that you should keep to yourself. So it’s unsurprising that a movie would appear that’s essentially a giant YouTube video. What is amazing is that teen sex-and-bong-hits comedy The Virginity Hit is funny, inspired, and even poignant. That includes the scene with the hermaphroditic blowup doll.

Superficially, this Will Ferrell–produced flick is classic coming-of-age stuff: four geeky New Orleans teenagers want to get laid. As the movie begins, the most endearingly geeky, Matt (Matt Bennett), is the last chaste man-child standing. Thus begins a crazy odyssey—led by tenacious buddy Zack (Zack Pearlman)—from upper-class neighbourhoods to swamps, strip clubs, grand old hotels, and wild mansion parties. It’s the camera that takes this into virgin big-screen turf—like The Blair Witch Project crossed with Superbad, then uploaded to YouTube.

Not only have codirectors and cowriters Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland shot the thing in homemade, kamikaze-documentary style—with the hand-held camera seeming to pass from kid to kid—but the famous video-sharing Web site figures most entertainingly. When Zack puts Matt’s misadventures on-line, thousands of strangers amusingly weigh in on the action, or inaction. And the young actors use their real first names—except for porn star Sunny Leone, who uses her first and last names and both plastic-fantastic breasts.

The Virginity Hit taps playfully into the Internet Zeitgeist—nothing is private, everything is public, and we not only don’t mind, we find it damn titillating—but the film’s unexpected sweetness says something yet more meaningful about the value of friendship. And, hey, looking for a new pickup line? Try, “I’ll fuck the taste out of your mouth.”