Disappointed

Rating: 2/10 (12 April 2001)

After hearing a bunch of good stuff about this film and then finally seeing it, I was disappointed by it. The characters are pretty likable, depictions of high school seem pretty down-to-earth, and Jason Bigg's pie scene is the best thing in the whole movie, but there's nothing much else. It's slow and unfunny in pretty long stretches. The sentimental material seems to overshadow the fact that it's a "raunchy sex comedy". It still has plenty of gross-out material, but barely any of it makes a big impact on you the way "There's Something About Mary" does, and it's not so funny either. "Mary" handled sentimental AND gross-out material much better. It's also sad that, with the exception of Mena Suvari doing "American Beauty", none of the main young actors who do a favorable job here (Biggs, Chris Klein, Tara Reid, Seann W. Scott, Thomas Ian Nicholas, and Eddie Kaye Thomas) have done anything good or, in the case of Thomas and Nicholas, anything at all. Overall, the movie is overrated and unremarkable.
** out of ****