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John Tucker Must Die
This teen comedy fails in most ways, it doesn't have the heart that it would claim to have, and it doesn't have the comedy that you would hope for either. It has a little bit of both, but they tend to get quite lost in the cliches that this film throws around.
The story is along the lines of Mean Girls in many ways, getting revenge, or bringing down the popular person, but this time instead of girls against girls, it is girls against guys. That doesn't make the story any better, and in many ways, it allows the film to fall into a whole lot more guy-girl relationship cliches, which it seems to find a lot of. Also, the plots for getting revenge are much, much more absurd then anything that Mean Girls ever dreamt up, and played out to a much more absurd end. That does get a few laughs from time to time, but for the most part, it is just painful. It eventually colminates exactly as expected. They really couldn't have been setting up the ending anymore, and I would say if they had tried, but I'm pretty sure they tried to set up the ending.
The acting in the film was tolarable. There weren't any characters that really drove me up the wall, but by the end of the film, there was only one character that I liked at all, and it wasn't the main one that they were setting up for people to like. This hurt the film in some ways, but the actual portrayal of the actors to the characters was generally above the standards for a teen comedy like this one.
Basically everything about this film was a cliche, the three people who wanted to get revenge on John Tucker were extremely cliche. There was the cheerleader, there was the nerdy but hot gal, and there was the slutty animal activest. They were all played out completely with the nerd being extremely detailed oriented, the cheerleader only caring about beauty, and the animal activest, well, she was the sluttiest. It would have been notably better without a lot of the cliches that they threw in, or at least they could have reduced them instead of making every person, literally, a walking cliche.
Overall this was a well below average film. It was aided by the fact that the girls were hot, so that raises it up a little in my book, as even though it was cliche, it was just fine to watch. Still, it could have been a little better then it was, but then again, it was a teen movie, and I wasn't expecting it to be good.
Grade: D
Story: D-
Acting: D
Audio/Visual: C
This teen comedy fails in most ways, it doesn't have the heart that it would claim to have, and it doesn't have the comedy that you would hope for either. It has a little bit of both, but they tend to get quite lost in the cliches that this film throws around.
The story is along the lines of Mean Girls in many ways, getting revenge, or bringing down the popular person, but this time instead of girls against girls, it is girls against guys. That doesn't make the story any better, and in many ways, it allows the film to fall into a whole lot more guy-girl relationship cliches, which it seems to find a lot of. Also, the plots for getting revenge are much, much more absurd then anything that Mean Girls ever dreamt up, and played out to a much more absurd end. That does get a few laughs from time to time, but for the most part, it is just painful. It eventually colminates exactly as expected. They really couldn't have been setting up the ending anymore, and I would say if they had tried, but I'm pretty sure they tried to set up the ending.
The acting in the film was tolarable. There weren't any characters that really drove me up the wall, but by the end of the film, there was only one character that I liked at all, and it wasn't the main one that they were setting up for people to like. This hurt the film in some ways, but the actual portrayal of the actors to the characters was generally above the standards for a teen comedy like this one.
Basically everything about this film was a cliche, the three people who wanted to get revenge on John Tucker were extremely cliche. There was the cheerleader, there was the nerdy but hot gal, and there was the slutty animal activest. They were all played out completely with the nerd being extremely detailed oriented, the cheerleader only caring about beauty, and the animal activest, well, she was the sluttiest. It would have been notably better without a lot of the cliches that they threw in, or at least they could have reduced them instead of making every person, literally, a walking cliche.
Overall this was a well below average film. It was aided by the fact that the girls were hot, so that raises it up a little in my book, as even though it was cliche, it was just fine to watch. Still, it could have been a little better then it was, but then again, it was a teen movie, and I wasn't expecting it to be good.
Grade: D
Story: D-
Acting: D
Audio/Visual: C