The same old story

Rating: Null/10 (3 July 2002)

Hands down, the corniest movie I have ever seen in my entire life! Mandy Moore plays the typical dork who nobody likes and Shane West plays the dynamic character in the story, the typical popular jerk...can't you already tell what is going to happen?!?!?!?!!! In some twist of fate, popular jerk ends up being forced to be tutored by the dork and surprise, surprise, he ends up falling in love with her. How unoriginal can the plot be!!! How many times have I heard that story before? The writer's must have sensed it's overwhelming predictability in the beginning so they decided they had to come up with some sort of way to give the lame story a twist. I'm not kidding, half-way through the movie, I leaned over to my friend and whispered, "I think she's going to die..." My friend replied, "I was thinking the same thing." So, low and behold, after the popular jerk had gained some depth to his character and learned the important lesson of why you should not judge a book by it's cover, Mandy takes a turn for the worse and her secret illness she was trying to hide is exposed. And...ugh, God help me...they get married...ugh!!! I wanted to barf!!