Rating:
(Of a possible five chainsaws.)
Where to see it:
At your local first-run theater, right now!
Review:
In the long standing tradition of Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles,
The Breakfast Club, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High, comes another
high school movie that kicks ass!
If you ever had a puppy-love crush or went to high school, you won't want to miss this
movie. Every typical stereotype of the high school food chain is represented, and
all in a very self-parodying way that still manages to have believable teenage characters.
When it does sacrifice its reality, it is for situations and characters that are so
overblown and over-the-top that it makes it all worth it (The geeks on the roof, the
delivery of "the letter", etc.).
As a bonus, we get to see another top rate performance from the kid who played Scott
Evil in Austin Powers. Keep an eye on this guy, he's going to be the next
Anthony Michael Hall. Mark my words.
This movie so effectively created the atmosphere of a high school party that I was starting
to get those same kind of awkward anxiety feelings that I would actually get
when I was in these kinds of situations.
And I would be remiss not to mention Jennifer Love "Party of Five in my pants and you're
invited" Hewitt. Rrrrrooww-rrroooow! Woo-woo! For everybody who experienced
the horror of I Know What You Did Last Summer (by "the horror", of course I mean
struggling through a movie that awful) just to swoon over Ms. Hewitt, this movie
will dazzle you with beauty and also satiate you with likeable characters and an
interesting plot.
It kicks ass. Go see it. Then rent Sixteen Candles to cool off.
