Get Over It

Plot synopsis:
Berke Landers (Ben Foster) and his girlfriend Allison (Melissa Sagemiller) were the quintessential high-school couple who grew up together and eventually fell in love, but she breaks up with him immediately after the film begins. This leads to an opening musical number of "Love Will Keep Us Together" by Captain & Tennille, imagined by Berke. He seeks advice from his embarrassing parents Frank (Ed Begley Jr.) and Beverly Landers (Swoosie Kurtz), who are hosts of a relationship advice show called Love Matters, but they don't help with the situation and constantly focus on his sex life and sexuality throughout the film. Allison then starts a relationship with Striker (Shane West), a 'foreign' student who was once the lead singer of a boy band called the Swingtown Lads. When Allison and Striker audition for the school's upcoming musical, Berke desperately tries to win Allison back by also auditioning for the play, despite having no theatrical talent and having a busy schedule as a member of the basketball team. Meanwhile, Berke's friends Felix (Colin Hanks) and Dennis (Sisqó) try to find a new girlfriend for him.
With the help of Felix's younger sister, Kelly (Kirsten Dunst), a talented songwriter and singer, Berke wins a minor role in the play, a modern musical version of Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream called A Midsummer Night's Rockin' Eve, written and directed by the school's domineering drama teacher, Dr. Desmond Oates (Martin Short). Striker plays Demetrius, Allison plays Hermia, Kelly plays Helena, and Lysander is to be played by the school's star actor, Peter Wong (Christopher Jacot). But after Peter is injured in a freak accident, Striker nominates Berke to take over the role of Lysander, and, still intent on winning Allison back, Berke accepts. He gradually improves with continuing assistance from Kelly, but remains unaware of the growing attraction between the two of them. While searching through props backstage, Kelly accidentally shoots Berke in the arm with an arrow gun, thinking it's a prop. Meanwhile, Oates blames Kelly's singing for his own poorly written song and rejects her suggestions to improve it.
Felix and Dennis set Berke up on a date with Dora (Kylie Bax) a very attractive but accident-prone woman. The date ends horribly when Dora inadvertently causes a fire in the restaurant. They try again by taking him to a strip club. However their attempts fail when Burke is locked into a harness and whipped by a dominatrix named Mistress Moira (Carmen Electra). The night ends with the club being raided by the police, Felix and Dennis abandoning Berke who is then picked up by his parents who, to Berke's shock, congratulate him.
At a party at Berke's house, Kelly kisses Berke, but he insists that a relationship between them could not work because she is Felix's sister. She leaves him, annoyed at his unwillingness to move on with his life, and Felix, coming across the two, punches Berke. At the same party, Berke and Allison catch Striker cheating on Allison with her best friend Maggie (Zoe Saldana), and so Allison breaks up with Striker. Meanwhile, Frank and Beverly return home to the party and once again congratulate Berke. Berke lampoons them for constantly embarrassing him and not acting like normal parents would to these types of situations.
On the play's opening night, the first half of the performance goes smoothly except for some onstage scuffling between Berke and Striker. During the intermission, Allison confides to Berke that she wants to get back together with him, leaving him with a difficult choice between her and Kelly. Meanwhile, Striker bribes two of the theater technicians to try and blow up Berke using stage pyrotechnics. Before the play resumes, Felix gives the orchestra sheet music for a love ballad written by Kelly to replace Oates' unpopular tune.
After the curtain rises, Kelly sings her song so beautifully that Berke is reminded of their time together and finally realizes he loves her. As the fourth act begins, he abandons his lines from the script and makes up his own verse professing his character's love for Kelly's character Helena. The audience applauds as Berke and Kelly kiss. Striker protests this change, but unwittingly signals the technicians to set off the explosion, blowing him offstage. Felix saves Dora's life and they become a couple. Dennis kisses Kelly's friend and his dancing partner Basin (Mila Kunis), who kisses him back, suggesting that they also begin a relationship. Kelly and Berke leave the theater after the show, looking forward to their future together as they discuss the next night's performance. The film ends with Sisqó and singer Vitamin C singing and dancing along with the cast to the song "September" as the credits roll.

Tags: romantic, humor, comedy, fantasy

Review:
I often find myself fast-forwarding to these scenes when I don't have the time to watch the whole thing.Good movie for when you want to shut off your brain and just enjoy mindless entertainment..
OK, i picked this film to watch on a night in with the girls because it looked funny and it had Kirsten Dunst in it, and lets face it everyone loves her!
I love Martin Short as the over dramatic Play director (being a drama student i have had directors very similar to him!) The movie does constantly slip in and out of reality but the amazingly funny songs do hold it together and leave the the audience with the tunes stuck in there heads for days!
I KNOW it's just another teen romance movie, but for me the acting of the two main characters, Ben Foster and Kirsten Dunst, as well as the singing that they actually did themselves, combined with the fact that parts of the movie are just plain weird, somehow captivates me into watching it...oh...maybe 25 times now.
In the new tradition of taking a classic work and casting it as a high school romance (I guess this tradition began with "Clueless", which is still the best of the bunch), "A Midsummer Night's Dream" gets turned into "Get Over It", but as a nice (if occasionally heavy-handed) twist, the movie revolves around a high school production of that play.
Berke is Helped and Hindered by his friends along the way leading to some hilarious scenes.However, Berke is so blinded by his love of Alison, he completely misses Kelly's (Kirsten Dunst) attempts to gain his affections.However Best-over-acting-and-getting-away-with-it award goes to Martyn Short, who steals the show as the manic producer of the school Drama based on Midsummer Night's Dream.As the film progresses, so does the humour..
Brilliant songs and musical score, however I challenge anyone not to be enraptured by Kirsten Dunst when she sings 'Dream of You' SIGHHHHH!!Give this film a try, it does not use Semi-Nude girls to sell the film (there is one short swimming pool scene which is Most Pleasant (DROOL), but thats about it.8/10..
Trying to cash in on the recent spate of teen Shakespeare updates such as the enjoyable "Ten Things I Hate About You", the filmmakers serve up a lame teen break-up movie centered around a painfully unfunny parody of a high school musical production of "A Midsummer's Night's Dream".
It's definetely better than writer/director Tommy O'Haver's last film ("Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss").I'll list the bad and good things about this movie: The bad: Foster is way too nerdy to be likable; West's imitation of an English accent is hysterically bad; Martin Short is really REALLY irritating as the school drama coach and some jokes are real groaners.The good: Dunst is very good and stops the show when she sings "Dream of Me"; the songs and dances aren't half bad and full of color and energy; Sagemiller is beautiful and very appealing; West (accent aside) is really handsome and hunky and dir.
Shane West was cool, but his character's arrogance annoyed me a little.Despite all this, I think it was a really good film, and I'd love to see it again!.
Combine some funny shtick by the hilarious Martin Short and some really ultra-hip permissive parents played by Kurtz and Begley with a spritz of musical theater and I all spells fun for teens.
(This doesn't include the Austin Power's rip-off ending where everyone dances infront of some weird back drop, where she has more equal screen time to the rest of the cast.)  So, for those of you who like a bit of T&A in their movie going experience, wait until this movie comes out on video as an "Unrated Version" then rent something completely different!
I remember wanting to watch it when I had my huge crush on Kirsten Dunst but for whatever reasons I couldn't just rent it.The situations are funny and somehow entertaining with some bright editing and musical numbers.
Kirsten Dunst demonstrates she's a really good actress and singer.The plot is the typical from any teenager film but it somewhat takes the direction to a comedy oriented for a younger audience.
I think I could imagine the original purpose of the film, making a teen movie adaptation of a well-known Shakespearian play, but I'm amazed by what a misfire it turned out to be.
It's obviously geared towards a 13-16 year old audience, and absolutely no one out of this age group would fail to recognize it as what it is - absolutely mediocre, or worse, in every way.The plot is the usual lame affair: a guy called Berke gets dumped by his longtime girlfriend Alison and joins his schools production of a Shakespeare play in order to impress her and get her back.
Will Shakespeare would have turned over in his grave: it's like they took his play, ran over it with a steamroller and then hacked it to bits with a chainsaw for good measure.Comparing 'Get Over it' to another Shakespeare-teen-comedy like 'Ten Things I hate about you' easily highlights just how bad GoI is.
These are for Kirsten Dunst's acting (despite being trapped in a substandard role), the fact that GoI is NOT a teen comedy about sex (which I really did appreciate), and that the movie did have 3 or 4 mildly enjoyable scenes.But really - don't waste your time watching this.
It's too bad because, if not for the play turned musical concept, West and Short, this movie could've been good.
Now, in conclusion, to all you Kirsten Dunst fans who haven't seen this sweet movie that's sure to touch you, make you feel warm inside, and make you laugh, I highly recommend it..
It's funny, the characters are compelling, the music is fun, there's a one shot sequence at the beginning that must have taken forever to shoot, the actors and actresses are great and I love the chemistry between Burke and his two best-friends.What can I say.
Yes I know some enjoy this movie but me no no no way would I ever torment myself into watching this movie.I enjoy Kirsten Dunst as a actress but this clearly wasn't one of the finest movies in her career nor Zoe Saldana, Mila Kunis.Now I do enjoy teen movies like American Pie and films like that but this one clearly is one apple that fell way off the tree and hit every branch on the way down.Story wise is pretty much what you would expect in a Teen movie and what makes it sad is that the plot is not even worth paying attention What ruin the film is pretty much the characters are more or less complete idiots and I can't see how this film was even consider being made because clearly it was made to make a buck or two so.The comedy in the film is simply bad it try to be funny but clearly the film comedy is just rude, gross, and in the words of a famous character "This is bad comedy".
Martin Short's character summarized Foster's entire acting job in this movie when he approached him during one of Foster's "daydreams" during class and asked "Are we having a little R.E.M?" Why does no one in this film see that Ben Foster's character is mentally ill and in need of treatment?
With his best friend Felix (Colin Hanks)'s sister Kelly (Kirsten Dunst), they follow Allison into the school's musical "A Midsummer Night's Dream".Martin Short is absolutely annoying as the drama teacher.
The main plot point, about a boy being dumped by his girlfriend, who then begins dating a minor celebrity who happens to be a douche bag, had interestingly enough been a subplot in another high school comedy released two years earlier: "She's All That" (1999).Even more interestingly, this movie's screenwriter, R.
Still, there are other elements of this movie that feel mercilessly ripped from other teen comedies.Most notably, the love story within this movie loosely follows the non-supernatural plot line to William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", which, not coincidentally, happens to be the play in which the movie's characters participate.
Berke doesn't seem to explain that fact at any point in the movie, either, and it hurts his case.Finally, in the film's opening credits, you see Berke, departing Alison's house after she lay down the bad news, being followed by Vitamin C and an accompanying band as they lip synch Captain & Tennille's classic "Love Will Keep Us Together".
Vitamin C mouths the song very well, but would feel less out-of-place in that scene if she were actually mocking Berke on his walk of shame.So Berke tries out for the spring play, a musical version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", specifically to spite Alison and Bentley (Shane West).
When Kelly Woods (Kirsten Dunst), a cheerful, magnetic girl who happens to be the sister of Berke's best friend Felix (Colin Hanks), offers to help Berke with his lines, you pretty much know how the story is going to go.Kirsten Dunst gets top billing in this movie despite having fewer lines and scenes than Ben Foster, but she totally deserves it.
Despite an energetic ending sequence where he and Vitamin C sing a rendition of Earth, Wind, & Fire's "September", Sisqo has a thankless role as the Token Black Guy. On the other hand, it's better to remember Sisqo from this movie than for his only hit, the atrocious "The Thong Song".While Foster is on emotional autopilot along with the love story, Dunst actively makes the best of her role.
One of her best scenes is when she sings "Dream Of Me", a touching song her character wrote and included in the play against the wishes of Dr. Desmond Forrest Oates (Martin Short), the production's narcissistic director.
Dunst is one of the few actresses and singers to make that song more heartbreaking and less cheesy, and she sells it."Get Over It" has its good moments, and the climactic final showing of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" lives up to more than the entire film ultimately does.
If you like seeing Martin Short in an over the top and very funny role, accompanied by some great musical numbers then this is a must see.
it thought the first half of this film was pretty good.instead of being your standard teen romantic comedy,it actually had some slapstick thrown in,some of which was quite amusing.to me,that was kinda different for this genre.at least it was something i hadn't seen before.not that that means anything.and the movie also had a bit of a musical bent to it,which i liked.sure,most of the movie is fairly predictable.but then most movies are,at least to a point.anyway,the movie moves along fairly well for the first 45 minutes or so.but then it gets really bogged down.you kinda know how things are gonna end up,but it seemed to take forever to get there.as a result,i just wanted it to finally end.for me,because of the slow(and to me,boring)second half, i can only give Get Over It a 5/10.
It is what Hollywood does best, a good old fashioned shallow love story where rich middle class teenagers follow their hearts in a squeaky clean high school that only exist in the movies.
In the process he meets his best friend's little sister, Kelly (Dunst).This movie shows how teens go about looking for love, but ultimately miss it when it is right in front of them.
Besides Ben Foster, Kirsten Dunst, Melissa Sagemiller, they have Colin Hanks, Marton Short, (many quotables, like "I need you...not really" or "ahh, those were the salad days...but these are nice.), Shane West, Mila Kunis and of course Sisqo (love the ending song/video September Love.)Like I said the plot is simple, but it is filled with quirky scenes designed to have you feel the emotion or the Main Guy Ben Foster day dreaming about one thing or another.
Martin Short's character is absolutely hilarious with his blunt insults - "I would tell you it was good, but that would be a lie." To his overbearing actions of taking the play WAY too seriously, he reminds us all of our high school theatre teachers.
This is some silly teen comedy but I like this movie, especially first scene and end credit.
Lets be honest so would 99% of male teenagers, so this stupid dumb act of "I didn't realise she liked me".To make the story slightly credible, make the Kirsten Dunst character ugly, then it would be more realistic.In every movie do we have to have this close-up of the 'penny dropping'.
And this film more or less follows the Shakespeare plot.This amusingly ironic premise underpins a rather corny love story about a boy (Ben Foster) getting dumped by one girl (Melissa Sagemiller) and accidentally finding another one (Kirsten Dunst).Dunst (still a Virgin but no longer a Suicide) lights up the screen as usual and Foster gives a deadpan portrayal of the aptly named Berke.
Relax, just 'cos it's an american teen comedy it doesn't mean you have to find something bad about it.Why on earth were you watching it if you hate this kind of film?Why rip into peoples singing or accents when it's just not necessary.
operates on the loose premise that a high-school nebbish, played by Ben Foster, would waste his time pining for his childhood sweetheart (Melissa Sagemiller) when his best friend's drop-dead gorgeous younger sister (Kirsten Dunst) is staring him in the face the whole time..
I also enjoyed basically all the scenes involving the high school theater kids...they were very true to life, everything from crazy pre-opening night mishaps to the off-beat stage crew members.My main complaint lies in the way in which the plot of the movie was likened to "A Midsummer Night's Dream."  This allusion was a little bit shaky, if only because they had Berke (Ben Foster) and Stryker (Shane West) in the wrong Shakesperian roles.
That would be my other complaint...I know it's a teen movie and therefore it must end that way, but the director and writer could have saved us some grief by NOT having Berke change around the plot.Overall though, I thoroughly enjoyed watching this movie if only because it was fun and made me laugh at the insane silliness of it.
The Reason why I say this because I found the storyline in this movie very good.And I like the chemistry going on with Berke who is played by Ben Foster and Kelly who is played by the sweet and beautiful Kirsten Dunst.The movie was really good and I really enjoyed how it ended up in the end.There were some flaws A lot of flaws.First off they said this was a comedy movie hmmm nothing in this movie was funny to me.The only person who I thought was Martin Short he was the only hilarious person throughout the movie everyone else tried and yet they have failed.Another problem with this movie is the singing oh how man I do not know why they had to sing in this friggin movie it was really crappy.Kirsten Dunst however had a beautiful singing voice she probably was the only person in this movie who sanged really good.Well that's it for my review In conclusion I give the movie 5 out of 10 stars.
Anything with Kirsten Dunst in it will have at least that going for it, but the creative direction and bizarre sense of humour behind this film turned it into a brilliantly funny and original subversion of the generally cliched teen-comedy genre.
Get Over It is the best movie I've ever seen, I watch it as much as I possibly can, Ben Foster (Burke Landers) was the best actor for this part and Kirsten Dunst (Kelly Woods) has been one of my favorite actresses for a long time and she and Ben made a great couple in the movie.
You've got Kirsten Dunst (2001's Teen Queen), Shane West (Once and Again and Whatever it Takes), Colin Hanks (son of the ever wonderful Tom Hanks and Roswell resident), Sisqo, and the return of a loveable actor: Ben Foster (popular on Disney's Flash Forward!).
Kirsten Dunst and the guy who she helps with the play are pretty good in it too and have some funny scenes together.
Halfway original sight gags and surprisingly decent acting from Foster and Colin Hanks (son of Academy-Award nominee Tom), who plays Kelly's older brother, keep the movie from going the way of `10 Things I Hate About Julia Stiles.' Surprisingly, Martin Short delivers one of his most hilarious performances, with a disturbingly accurate portrayal of a high school theatre director.
The main character, Berke (played by Ben Foster, who I could have sworn was the red-haired kid from "Big") gets dumped by his girlfriend, and then tries to impress her the rest of the movie by joining the school play, which is directed by Martin Short, playing a wannabe actor/songwriter.
True belly-laughs by Short.Along the way, Berke gets help from his best friend's sister, played by Kirsten Dunst, and the plot is predictable from there.
At the same time Kelly (Kirsten Dunst) is trying to get Berke to open his eyes, and fall in love with her.
Kirsten Dunst and Martin Short are spectacular, and all in all, a very nice mood throughout the movie..
Get over it is simply a fun movie, it is your usual teen film but it works very well.
But I found it surprisingly funny especially the end when the play is finally performed.All the main actors are very good in particular Martin Short as the failed actor turned Drama teacher and  Kirsten Dunst as the aspiring musician.Overall this film is well worth watching and a very enjoyable 90 minutes, and unlike recent teen comedies it uses more mature humour rather than gross out humour which is a refreshing change..
Carmen Electra, in a very short cameo, seems wasted.In the end, the movie is funny, Kirsten Dunst is, as always, wonderful every second she's on screen, and the rest of the cast gives her adequate, or more than adequate, support..