I like this movie, maybe for reasons I can't explain. There are flashes of brilliance in this film that probably want me to like it, and I guess that's why I do. Nothing cracks me up more than when the two nerdy sci-fi dudes on the rooftop are talking about how one of them isn't going to get to see their internet girlfriend because she's on a photo shoot in Fiji, before he utters the classic line in total matter of fact fashion, "But that's the price you pay for dating Christy Turlington". It's those little things that suck me into giving this thumbs up. Seth Green, as the clueless but likeable (After he drops his guard) white rapper is another reason. Green just has a way of nailing these character so perfectly, projecting all the insecurity of a teenager.
Now on to the flaws, the main one being the Jen Love Hewitt/Ethan Embry romance part, which IS the center of the film. I'm sorry, but it is hard to believe that his character would be so enthralled by her for anything other than physical reasons. We don't even have any evidence that he has ever heard her SAY ANYTHING, yet he can write letters professing love and how he sees beyond her exterior. Give high schoolers a little more credit than that, please. Sure he's a goofy kid, but he has to have SOME brains to go to Dartmouth, right? Meanwhile, she rambles on about how everyone thinks she's shallow, yet says nothing to prove the contrary. I can't believe her character is that emotionally dependant on a sophmoronic high school jock that she "Doesn't even know who I am". I get the feeling that if the Embry/Hewitt characters sat down over a cup of coffee, he would realize how stupid it was to obsess for four years. Do you think she even KNOWS who Kurt Vonnegett is? Hell, I though she didn't know who she was!
Okay, I'm analyzing it too much, but overall the funny moments make up for the flaws.
Now on to the flaws, the main one being the Jen Love Hewitt/Ethan Embry romance part, which IS the center of the film. I'm sorry, but it is hard to believe that his character would be so enthralled by her for anything other than physical reasons. We don't even have any evidence that he has ever heard her SAY ANYTHING, yet he can write letters professing love and how he sees beyond her exterior. Give high schoolers a little more credit than that, please. Sure he's a goofy kid, but he has to have SOME brains to go to Dartmouth, right? Meanwhile, she rambles on about how everyone thinks she's shallow, yet says nothing to prove the contrary. I can't believe her character is that emotionally dependant on a sophmoronic high school jock that she "Doesn't even know who I am". I get the feeling that if the Embry/Hewitt characters sat down over a cup of coffee, he would realize how stupid it was to obsess for four years. Do you think she even KNOWS who Kurt Vonnegett is? Hell, I though she didn't know who she was!
Okay, I'm analyzing it too much, but overall the funny moments make up for the flaws.