Grow up, it wasn't that good

Rating: 3/10 (22 June 2000)

The first thing is, I am sick of people telling me how good this movie was. It's not a good movie. The only decent part is the plot, and since all they did was adjust a good Shakespeare play, (who, I'm sure, was not the first to use the plot, but has arguably one of the better adaptations) of course it was good. The acting was horrible, it wasn't anything like real life or high school (definitely not the same thing), and it plays to every short-attention-spanned flaky teenager who likes "cute" things and an easy emotional high. If you actually watch the movie as a movie, it sucks. Spend your time actually reading Shakespeare, or watching a better movie.