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| Comedy and Romance 1 hr. 27 min. MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content and language. Release Date: July 28th, 2006 Starring: Jesse Metcalfe, Sophia Bush, Ashanti, Brittany Snow, Arielle Kebbel Directed by: Betty Thomas |
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If hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, just think of the damage three teenage girls could to do if pushed to their romantic breaking points. Okay, now, take whatever you're imagining and triple it. That's how much havoc a band of resourceful high school girls end up wreaking on the triple-timing campus stud. The destruction begins when three gorgeous, popular girls from competing high school cliques discover that they've each been dating the same guy: the school's smooth and hunky basketball team captain, John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe). After comparing notes, the fuming trio—reporter-wannabe Carrie (Arielle Kebbel), head cheerleader Heather (Ashanti), and vegan activist Beth (Sophia Bush)—conspire to teach Tucker a lesson he'll never forget. They decide to attack his game and make this guy, who is never without a date, undatable. Unfortunately, every wacky, grossly embarrassing scheme they hatch to undermine Tuck backfires and only makes him more popular than ever.
Desperate, the girls realize they'll have to step up their assault. There's only one way left to take: to break his heart...the same way he's broken theirs.
The movie was beyond unrealistic at times and makes you take a ton of things at face value and just accept them as being a part of a movie but after you get to this point the movie actually ended up being fairly quaint and cute and funny. If you can accept John Tucker as someone who has more basketball skills then Michael Jordan at the peak of his prowess and four girls from different clicks banding together to get even when they have nothing in common, then you will probably find yourself liking the movie and laughing throughout. I helps that it plays most of the completely outrageous and off the wall moments as tongue in cheek and moves past them like everything is normal. The film is funny, cute and surprisingly very entertaining.
If you wanted to nit pick the movie for anything it would be how predictable the movie is even though it contradicts itself by being so. Brittany Snow finds herself falling for John Tucker even though she knows how evil and manipulative he is but in the end all these pseudo feelings of love are completely forgotten just like how she conveniently forgets the guy she likes when she is falling for John Tucker. The movie plays out like you would expect it to and takes no deviations in the plan even though it sets them up which in the end makes the movie only likeable and not something you would watch over and over again.
Each of the four girls has her annoying High School teenage girl moments but the one that drove me was crazy was Ashanti. Yes, Ashanti we know your black, we understand that you’re a pop teen placating your fans but for the love of the dear lord do you need to pull out every single black cliché when putting a character together. Ashanti’s character is one that you would expect to pop out of the TV during a music video and is the most unoriginal character ever. I liked Sophia Bush the most as she plays a high school slut that doesn’t even realize she is one to perfection, she clearly brings out the most laughs and is the funniest character of their unholy quad. Brittany Snow is your typical outcast who is just trying to fit in and Arielle Kebbel is your run of the mill overachiever and John Tucker is of course John Tucker a cartoon like character that is only their as a backdrop to set the movie up and not really meant to be anything more. Cute but lacking substance.
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