In fact, much of the exaggerated angst that perpetrates the Bard's greatest work is perfectly akin to the exaggerated angst experienced by the acne set. Making the sisters teenagers with a paranoid dad is almost an inspired idea, except now the younger one is the chick everyone wants to nail, and the sister is a frigid femi-nazi. Other characters suddenly display worldly-wise proise when moments ago, they were walking teen clique caricatures. But their courtship and eventual thawing of her inner-bitch at times seem very forced. The cast is fresh faced, but misguided by TV director Gil Junger, who doesn't really have a handle on things.
Ledger starts out a bully with a dangerous reputation, but suddenly breaks out into song.
After a while, you put down the scorecard and just go with the individual scene, because what's here one minute probably won't be the next. Okay, the kids all have high IQ's and speak in three-dimensional sentences. A few scenes later, he's conducting lessons like a champ. He must be a fast learner. The fact that baby doctor dad Larry Miller won't allow his daughters to date.