Can't Hardly Wait

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Summary: College Student Votes Yea
Review: Although on the surface Can't Hardly Wait seems wimple and silly, the characterization is brilliant. Every person in the movie is a hyperbole of each type of typical high school student. There is the cheerleader, the nerd, the jock, and the typical not-so-typical high school student. I reccommend this movie to anyone who attends, did attend, is thinking about attending, or has nothing to do with high school. What a great flick!

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Summary: I couldn't wait to watch it again
Review: What a Movie. This was one of the first movies I purchased when I got my new DvD Player. The sound quality is amazing using 5.1 surround, it's effect is evident from the first scene. The storyline focus's on the High School break up party and one, Preston meyers (Ethan Embry), Who is finally given a second chance at winning the heart of Amanda beckett (Love Hewitt). It certainly is a Great Movie with a well thoought out script and an excellent cast. If you like the teen flick type genre, then this is a film worth watching.

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Summary: Thought I couldn't hardly wait to see it...now I wish I had
Review: I was also a graduate of the class of 1998, so I thought that I would check this movie out and see if it was something that I could really look back on in the future. NOPE! There is nothing in this movie really about how things were in those 12 years of school that I could watch this when I'm 45, and go, "Oh, yeah, I remember that!". It's just a bunch of drunk teens trying to deal with issues that should really mean nothing at all to viewers of this movie. My mistake was I bought the video before renting it. Take my advice, if you want to get an idea for yourself of what the movie is like, RENT IT FIRST. Better to spend a few bucks than about 10 or 15. I do give it the 3 stars because I have to admit that there were some funny scenes, and a select few situations that I could relate to. Other than that it was rather goofy and almost a waste of time.

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Summary: Not as good as American Pie, but the next best thing!
Review: A very funny movie, and the best teen flick in exception to the great American Pie. If you don't like American Pie, you simply wn't like this. The movie is very funny and has some funny actors including Seth Green (Scott from Austin Powers, and the werewolf in Buffy the Vampire slayer). The story is simply about High school students spending there last night as high school students in the party of all parties. I like this film a lot, but I know not everyone will.

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Summary: da bestest film ever!
Review: great, this film is.i got this film out last week and watched it 3 times in one night, so i think i would know.anyway,if you like american teen romance type films,get this one out coz it is really funny and seth green and ethan embry are gorgeous! cya [e-mail]

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Summary: Surprisingly fun tribute to the high school experience
Review: A friend of mine brought this one over and got me to watch it, and I really have to thank him for it. I didn't see this one in the movie theater, and probably would never have thought to actually see it on my own, considering that I left the high school scene a decade ago. Perhaps because I had so few expectations for this movie, I found myself being pleasantly surprised by this fun, upbeat film. Ethan Embrey is perfectly cast as Preston, the guy who believes that he has found his perfect mate in Amanda, played by Jennifer Love Hewitt, and finally tries to get the nerve to tell her how he feels at the all-night graduation keg party. What really makes this admittedly well-used plot work is the rest of the cast that make up the party goers. Anyone who went to an American high school in the last 30 years will recognize these people from their own school. True, the story isn't deep, and perhaps it relies too heavily on high school stereotypes, but there is a real charm to be found here. Frankly, it's nice to see that the movie doesn't preach or fall back upon teen angst and turmoil to keep the story going, and that's probably why I really enjoyed it. It's fun, light, witty, and has heart. If you can't sit through this without laughing and enjoying yourself, then you probably hated high school (or really need to stop being so serious). For the rest of us, you'll find it to be a fun diversion.

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Summary: "anybody else care for a bite of banality?"
Review: "Can't Hardly Wait" falls firmly in this category ofbanality, as it supplies the viewer with stock characters, merelyslaves to a "plot" that hasn't been fresh since at least 1984. Many cite links between this and the John Hughes films of that era. How soon they forget that Hughes crafted films of intelligence, films that actually said something: "Breakfast Club" examined, among other things, the futility of the caste system, as well as the way some parents push their kids to unrealistic depths as a means to compensate for glory they never achieved. "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" examined materialism, evidenced by the relationship between Cameron and his father.

None of that is to be found in "Can't Hardly Wait", which is more content with selling us a...saccharine tale that's been done too many times already. Of course, it doesn't help that we're saddled with stereotypical characters, or that we're supposed to believe that Preston's love for Amanda stems from something as preposterous as a shared flavor of Pop-Tart...

Many have called this film "cute". That's essentially what's wrong with it: rather than being "cute" and sticking to a formula, Elfont and Kaplan should've spent more time being real and giving the characters weightier issues other than getting the most amount of yearbook signatures. And, PG-13 teen movies don't work, for obvious reasons.

Speaking as a member of the class of '99, I knew a lot of people whose passions in life had little or nothing to do with the superficial; Moreover, I was (and still am) one of those people. To suggest that so little can be expected of teenagers, to make such a petulent retort, and and to place such petty limitations is what is _truly_ perpetrating a myth, and it is insulting and patronizing to the hard-working students who go against the grain, who refuse to submit to conformity, and who to aim to be productive members of society.

Take this for what it is: just the thoughts of someone who's been down that road. We are officially in the year 2000; now is the perfect time to set a new path for films in this genre. God help us all if they keep making them like this.

BTW, those who claim this is the "best" or "greatest" movie ever may want to consider perusing the works of Kubrick, Scorsese, Kurosawa, Spike Lee, and Matthieu Kasovitz.

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Summary: Stonking (and Tense)
Review: This Is one of the best feelgood films i have seen in a long time. It was one of those films with the tense feeling all the way through. with the will they, wont they, moments all through out. if you liked ten things i hate about you, fast times at ridgemont high and films of a similar ilk then this is for you It is about a boy who has loved the same girl for 4 years. when she is finally single he makes a pact with himself to show his true feelings. Along with many other plot lines and a spectacular cast (especially Seth Green In his Best role to date) this is a must see movie. see it before it is too late.

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Summary: Definitely Recommendable
Review: An excellent choice of cast - Jennifer Love Hewitt ( I Know What You Did Last Summer), Ethan Embry (Disturbing Behaviour), Seth Green (Buffy, The Vampire Slayer) and new faces like Lauren Ambrose, Charlie Kosmo and Peter Facinelli (Dancer, Texas, Pop. 81). So, Amanda Beckett (Love Hewitt) has been Preston Meyers (Ethan Embry) love interest since he first saw her. Now he has his chance to dive right in when Amanda dumps her ex-boyfriend, Mike (Peter Facinelli)! This movie is like one of those where everyone has a main part - it's excellent!

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Summary: Great movie!
Review: This movie rules and deserves 5 stars for Seth Green alone! The other actors and actress' are great too but Seth's character is without a doubt the funniest. Everyone should see this movie!