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DVD John Tucker Must Die
An unlikely sisterhood plots a girl-powered revenge in John Tucker Must Die. When the class-overachiever (Arielle Kebbel, Aquamarine), the head cheerleader (Ashanti, Coach Carter), and the vegan alterna-girl (Sophia Bush, One Tree Hill) discover they're all dating the same guy--namely, star basketball player John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe, Desperate Housewives)--they recruit a bashful new girl named Kate (Brittany Snow, The Pacifier) to become the ideal girl to break Tucker's heart. But as Kate uses the gang's combined wiles to lure Tucker, his interest gives her a social standing she's never had before...an intoxicating experience that may cost her a chance at honest love with another boy. John Tucker Must Die contrasts male and female behavior to cunning comic effect. The portrait of high school life is typically absurd, but the engaging cast, sprightly plot, and crisp dialogue will draw you in. It's a testament to the smooth guiding hand of director Betty Thomas (The Brady Bunch Movie, Private Parts) that ex-Playmate Jenny McCarthy's performance can genuinely be called understated. One of 2006's best teen comedies. --Bret Fetzer
I really liked this movie, eventhough the ending was trippin. Some of the lines are......mediocre. The acting was okay but could have been better. Overall a light, funny, enjoyable comedy. Worth a view or 2. Also this movie has a very good looking cast ;)
Dimwitted high school comedy: a lot of flash, but no sharpness
By watching "John Tucker Must Die," I occasionally came to the realization that Hollywood must have been running out on ideas about how to make a good movie about high school. We've seen moviemakers go near the edge with "Heathers" and "Jawbreaker," and the recent "Mean Girls" examined the post-'Valley Girl' era, pro-MTV generation of young women. But it seems to me that the only great high school movies are the ones that are R-rated, because they allow the director and writers some wiggle-room to play around with the possibilities (this one`s PG-13). "John Tucker Must Die" has a fantastic premise, itching up and down with various schemes and twists to lead the audience with, if only the writers managed to be inquisitive. I was anxious to see how the film would play out. This is too bad, because the film is a trove of deadening performances and indolent screenwriting. I doubt even teenage girls will think much differently about the movie after seeing it.
In a scene where John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe) takes a young woman to a movie theater, plastered in the background is a promotional poster for the movie "X-Men: The Last Stand." If you were a regular moviegoer, you would realize that the studio just released third X-Men film a scant two months before "John Tucker" hit theaters. This observation reveals the hastiness of the filmmakers to push the production into theaters. The writing is apparent with this fact, because it's so blatantly dull and puerile. So few modern high school movies take a courageous step in going somewhere with the material, and "John Tucker Must Die" falls into the same mold. There is no wit, no sparkle from its performers, no sharpness to the dialogue, and a drab and ordinary production design. Like "American Pie: Band Camp," it's a made-for-DVD flick in the strictest sense.
Just Plain Lame
This is one of the worst comedies ever made. I mean that. The acting is the worst I have ever seen, even including high school plays. The script is so lame it could have been written by a third grader, and the pranks they play are not that funny or that nasty. I give it a star because the music is good throughout. Metcalfe is the worst male actor I have ever seen. He makes Jesse Bradford and Luke Perry look like acting gods - they might as well bring back Screech. Ryan Reynolds would have been a better choice but he looks a bit old for high school, plus even he couldn't save such a terrible script. Ashanti should stick to singing because her acting makes Paris Hilton look like Meryl Streep. Save your money on this one, and if you want a great revenge comedy, go rent "Waiting" or "Dirty Deeds."
Justin Long has been hovering on the edges of movies like The Break-Up and Dodgeball, providing little comic bursts that are often funnier than the rest of the movie. In Accepted, Long plays Bartleby Gaines, a fast-talking slacker who, when he gets rejected by every college he applied to, invents a phony college to get his parents off his back. Unfortunately, the website his best friend creates is too effective--hundreds of other rejects apply and are accepted. Instead of revealing the hoax, Gaines decides to forge ahead and let the students create their own curriculum, little suspecting that their school is obstructing the expansion plans of the nearby snobbish college. Accepted is much better than you might expect, given the low bar set by most campus... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Steve Pink DVD Release Date: Released the 14 November 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Shakespearean comedy and American high school are a match made in heaven--or Hollywood, at any rate. Somehow the exaggerated emotions and budding hormones of adolescence are perfectly suited to Shakespeare's twisty plots, and She's the Man is a perfect example. Viola (Amanda Bynes, What a Girl Wants) is furious when she learns that her high school, Cornwall, has cut the girl's soccer team--so furious that she takes advantage of her twin brother Sebastian (James Kirk, Final Destination 2) skipping town for a few weeks to take his place at his school, Illyria, so she can join the soccer team there. But her disguise as her brother leads to complications when she falls in love with her soccer-playing roommate and the girl he's in love with falls in love with... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Andy Fickman DVD Release Date: Released the 27 June 2006 Usually ships in 6 to 11 days
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This clever, funny big-screen adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's best-seller takes some of the snarky bite out of the chick lit book, but smoothes out the characters' boxy edges to make a more satisfying movie. There's no doubt The Devil Wears Prada belongs to Meryl Streep, who turns in an Oscar�-worthy (seriously!) strut as the monster editor-in-chief of Runway, an elite fashion magazine full of size-0, impossibly well-dressed plebes. This makes new second-assistant Andrea (Anne Hathaway), who's smart but an unacceptable size 6, stick out like a sore thumb. Streep has a ball sending her new slave on any whimsical errand, whether it's finding the... More Info about this DVD Director(s): David Frankel DVD Release Date: Released the 12 December 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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There are a lot of broad comedies about men refusing to grow up, but few have the sly bite of You, Me and Dupree. Even though Carl (Matt Dillon, Crash, There's Something About Mary) is newly married to Molly (Kate Hudson, Almost Famous, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days), when his best friend Dupree (Owen Wilson, Wedding Crashers, The Life Aquatic) ends up homeless, Carl invites Dupree into their house--in which Dupree promptly makes himself at home, culminating in setting the place on fire during lurid sex. But though he's trapped between his wife and his best friend, Carl may have bigger problems as his boss--and father-in-law--hates him and is sneakily working against his marriage. You, Me and Dupree seems at first glance to be a... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Anthony Russo (II) - Joe Russo (II) DVD Release Date: Released the 21 November 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Take the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, add a dash of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and a lot more rum. Shake well and you'll have something resembling Dead Man's Chest, a bombastic sequel that's enjoyable as long as you don't think too hard about it. The film opens with the interrupted wedding of Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), both of whom are arrested for aiding in the escape of Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) in the first film. Their freedom can only be obtained by getting Captain Jack's compass, which is linked to a key that's linked to a chest belonging to Davy Jones, an undead pirate with a tentacle face and in possession of a lot of people's souls. If you're already confused, don't worry--plot is definitely not the... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 05 December 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This clever, funny big-screen adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's best-seller takes some of the snarky bite out of the chick lit book, but smoothes out the characters' boxy edges to make a more satisfying movie. There's no doubt The Devil Wears Prada belongs to Meryl Streep, who turns in an Oscar�-worthy (seriously!) strut as the monster editor-in-chief of Runway, an elite fashion magazine full of size-0, impossibly well-dressed plebes. This makes new second-assistant Andrea (Anne Hathaway), who's smart but an unacceptable size 6, stick out like a sore thumb. Streep has a ball sending her new slave on any whimsical errand, whether it's finding the...