It’s a sign of the times that Rob Schneider and erstwhile Wayne’s World babe Tia Carrere are old enough to play the adults in Wild Cherry, one of those head-feint hormonal comedies that would perhaps seem to promise an endless supply of boozy high school partying and topless chicks, but in actuality is a tale of a trio of savvy babes turning the tables on some of their boneheaded brethren.

The front-and-center star is Tania Raymonde (Jeff Goldblum’s ex-arm candy, above left), who plays Helen McNicol, a virginal good girl who lives alone in a small town with her dad (Schneider), and dates high school classmate and footballer Stanford (Ryan Merriman, above right). Her friends, Katyln Chase (Rumer Willis) and Trish Van Doren (Kristin Cavallari), are a bit more romantically experienced but also virgins. When they discover their names in a legendary book that pairs the school’s senior virgins with football players — ostensibly to bring good luck — the ladies undertake a series of pranks to get back at Franklin (John White), “Skeets” (Jesse Moss) and a bunch of other guys, and show them who’s really in charge.

There’s a convoluted history of writing credits pegged to director Dana Lustig’s film, which contributes a bit to a feeling that ghost traces of tonally disparate material have been mashed up against one another. Raymonde (not to mention the rest of the cast) seems far too old for a high schooler, but actually has a bit of eye-batting charm. Unfortunately, she’s not given much with which to work, as the script cycles through all sorts of expected set-ups and montages.

Wild Cherry isn’t terrible, but its pedestrian rewards — Schneider, for instance, rather astonishingly tries to craft a recognizably human character — aren’t really likely to satisfy the target demographic of a movie featuring a midriff-baring girl in a “69”-emblazoned T-shirt on its cover. It pulls too many punches, really, and bits that seemingly most squarely hit the target at which the movie is aiming — that of a femme-centric American Pie sequel — are delivered with a kind of winking, too-chaste apologia that cleaves them from the emotional honesty of a teenager discovering their body. When Katyln and Trish give Helen an “iBod” (which supposedly pegs a vibrator to the rhythms of bass-happy music), Helen fitfully monkeys around with it for a bit before turning to a water faucet, then a carrot, and then the washing machine. There’s a really interesting — and still quite funny, I’m sure — movie to be made about teenage girls figuring out their bodies and learning about sex before actually having it, but Wild Cherry just isn’t that film.

Housed in a regular Amaray case with partially hollowed-out spindles (to use less plastic), Wild Cherry comes to DVD with a complementary cardboard slipcover, presented in a 1.78:1 aspect ratio, with a Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound track that more than adequately handles the title’s meager aural requirements. Optional English SDH and Spanish subtitles are also included. An action menu screen will drive viewers insane in less than 10 minutes if its chirpy background pop music is left turned up too loud, but apart from the requisite chapter stops (of which there are a dozen) and a version of the trailer, there are unfortunately no supplemental extras, not even an EPK-style making-of featurette. Nevertheless, to purchase the DVD via Amazon, click here. C- (Movie) D (Disc)