The Boy Next Door — a fifth - rate sleazefest in which an English teacher played by Jennifer Lopez gets «involved» with one of her students — was too dumb to generate much attention when it released last week (its Rotten Tomatoes rating sits at a dismal 14 percent) but it does feature one moment of such straight - faced outlandishness, such eye -
popping ludicrousness, that it must be considered worthy of whatever the opposite of an Oscar is.