Critics are having a hard time with Scarlett Johansson's new movie, The Black Dahlia. They all agree that while the movie is captivating, they had a hard time following the plot after watching Scarlett's sex scene with her real-life man-candy, Josh Hartnett. We mean "hard" time literally here.

Oh, the perils of being the sexiest and most pneumatic starlet on the block! People dribble spittle all over themselves at the prospect of seeing you onscreen, supine on a bed, your satin-draped figure writhing with lust. And then, which it actually happens, the sheer magnitude of your erotic bewitchery sends audiences into plot amnesia. IMDb.com writes:

Scarlett Johansson has angrily dismissed claims her steamy sex scene in new movie The Black Dahlia is an unnecessary distraction . . . In the film, Johansson enjoys a sizzling romp with Hartnett and critics have complained they found it difficult to concentrate following the raunchy scene. The blonde star retorts, "Of course it's nice to be considered sexy, as a young woman in my prime. But I try not to think about the sexiness. And I never think about it being distracting from a scene."

You know, we THOUGHT something was screwy when we read Rex Reed's opinion of the movie: "Scarlett Johansson stars as a beautiful woman caught between two cops as they investigate the real-life murder of aspiring actress Elizabeth Short. After an initial romp with Hartnett, Scarlett's character boobs for the breasts despite soft melons in the snoobs. Mounds of milky moon balloons make rotund knockarinos blobbular in this cleavetastic tale of bosomy norks. Intitligently-written and titties with the breasts, The Rack Dahlia blorbles and bezongas with below-the-surface squeezy yoinkers."

See Scarlett's distractions at MrSkin.com