unintresting

Rating: 5/10 (27 January 2008)

OK, granted I am far from being a teenager, and definitely this movie is not for me but to receive such high grade at this site??? I guess I'm an old school - I believe that any movie suppose to be a show, and trigger up certain emotions. At the grade of 8.4 it really should appeal to everyone, well it didn't. If it's suppose to be life like,than the whole idea of a "nerd" boy getting a hot girl when she realizes her "wicked" confused ways does not belong in it. The plain truth is that successful people attract another successful people, and at teenage years it's much harsher then later on in life when you compromise, so I really didn't really buy that part. In my personal opinion that excellent casting is the thing that saves this movie. Ellen Page is excellent in it, though i do feel that she's overacting a bit with her part. I feel that she is much too confident for a teenager. I did feel that chemistry between Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner was good - there was unfulfilled tension and everything - that was the high point in "life likeness" of the movie. The story is old and a modern interpretation of it doesn't really saves it. Really didn't get what is so special in it. In any case, I think that this movie is good for people with teenage kids, and maybe for teenagers but as for all the rest it's quite boring.