teenage girls, here's your movie...everyone else...not so much!

Rating: 2/10 (30 March 2010)

I had put this movie off as long as I could, I dreaded watching it so bad, but it wasn't horrible. I never wanna see it again though. It's obviously for teenage girls and gay guys, and not meant to please anyone else.
Its a movie based on Shakespears The Taming of the Shrew. A new kid comes to the cliché high school and gets a big crush on a girl. The girl is out of his reach and she has the hots for another boy who's full of himself. The new kid at school thinks he can get the girl if he can show her how sweet he is and keep her attention long enough. One problem is in the way and that is the girl can't go on dates unless her older sister can. Her older sister is an individual and doesn't "need" a man so the new kid and his new found friend come up with a big scheme to get the older sister a date and ultimately get his crush close to him...
Teens...ugh...is there anything more pathetic than high schoolers? This movie tried so hard to hit on EVERY teen cliché ever put on film. It tries so hard to be "hip" and cool and makes my stomach churn with disgust that the world is full of people like this.
The writing was nothing good here, it was something you have seen a billion times. The directing wasn't meant to be great and it wasn't, production was run of the mill and all it offered was a so so soundtrack by many hot artists at the time.
I hate most of these teen actors and this one was full of crappy leads. Julia Stiles actually auditioned for the role of the younger sister and I think she would've done better at that. She does much better as a snobby teen cause she looks the part of a stuck up B*tch, not the part of a "cool" rocker chick. I guess though shes rather ugly and doesn't look like the kind of girl a guy would crush over. Heath Ledger is a horrible actor, esp. in his early years. Its sad he started getting better just before he died, but here he didn't amaze me at all. Joseph Gordon Levitt is a decent teen actor and looks so much like the cool innocent kid we all knew and loved back in high school...kudos to him, I also think his friend in the movie David Krumholtz does a great job.
Principal Perky (Allison Janney) was hands down the best character on the whole movie even if she only had about 5 minutes of screen time. Andrew Keegan would've done so much better in Ledgers role, but Ledger could not have pulled off his part...So I guess the casting is my biggest flaw with this film, also many of the extras kept looking right directly into the camera and god if I noticed it, why couldn't the director.
I gave it 2 out of 10 because I didn't completely hate it. I have seen worse. I can only suggest it to the teen flick/ chick flick lovers though.. I hope to never see it again