A teen comedy that ALMOST works...

Rating: 5/10 (1 August 1999)

What could have been an incredible and insightful teen comedy/coming-of-age story flounders due to poor execution. While there is a larger amount of content and insight than usual for these kinds of movies, the majority of the humour is lost as the timing for almost all the jokes falls completely flat. At least the characters are strong enough to make the movie interesting, but good characters alone do not make a good film.
Final score is 3/5; it is redeemed somewhat by the amount of insight, but that still doesn't quite manage to get it where it should go.