I don't get it...

Rating: 2/10 (8 July 2005)

Wow - I don't understand how this movie got so many positive reviews. I personally believe this is one of, if not the, worst movies I have EVER seen. The plot is totally unbelievable, and the main character reminded me way too much of a Fred Savage wannabe.
The movie is also super complicated: I've singled out about 7 different plots - that's incredible! The first half of the movie was OK, in an American Pie sort of way, but the rest was just added on cheese. Every time you think the movie will end, it just keeps ON GOING - like forever! I think I preferred Chris Marquette and Paul Dano's acting than Emile Hirsch's - he just didn't seem in his element. I seriously was just waiting for a Wonder Years voice-over at almost every scene of the movie.
And the imagined scenes were just too complicated and clumsy for this movie... Leave those to Scrubs, where they know how to make it work.
All in all, yes, Elisha super hot (as all the other reviewers needed to point out), but that doesn't make the movie work.