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10 Things I Hate About You

10 Things I Hate About You

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This movie is amazing !!!
Review: I saw it with my best friend and we bothed loved it. The whole cast did a fantastic job. I thought the cast was so cool, and it's a very superb movie.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: VERY FUNNY MOVIE
Review: I saw other similarily formatted "She's all that", but it lacked what "10 Things..." had, something I'm still trying to figure out!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: There are more than 10 Things I Love About This Movie
Review: This is a great movie to see over and over again. It has great actors and actresses and deserves all of the credit of it's wonderful storyline. I HIGHLY recommend it to everyone.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best Teen-Comedy I have ever seen
Review: I love this movie!!! 10 Things has everything you could ever want in a movie. I laughed at different times, I cried when Kat was reading her poem. And I couldn't wait tell the next scene.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Teen Comedy Review
Review: I felt this movie was fairly okay. It involves high school teens getting ready for the prom. I liked Joseph-Gordon Levitt's part of trying to get Bianca to fall for him and she eventually did.
I thought that, of course, Julia Stiles and the one who played Bianca were both very hot and attractive. Heath Ledger had his own cool part as well. Of course, it's not really that great to
pay someone to go out with someone. I found it to be a descent
funny romantic teen comedy.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles update Shakespeare
Review: "10 Things I Hate About You" is obviously inspired by Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," but it would be a mistake to think that the story is simply translated entact to the Sea-Tac area of Washington State. Actually, what we have here are the basics translated to the high school level (with some of the names): Bianca (Larisa Oleynik) cannot date until her older sister Kat does so (Julia Stiles), and new kid in town Cameron James (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) hires moody Pat Verona (Heath Ledger) to pitch woo to Kat. However, from then on "10 Things I Hate About You" reminds you more of a standard Hollywood teen flick where two people who hate each other fall in love rather than Shakespeare--not that there is anything wrote with that.

The success of the film probably owes as much to the two leads as it does to ripping off the bard. Perhaps the best evidence in support of this hypothesis is how quickly Ledger and Stiles became stars after this film. Ledger is a hunk in the more physical sense of the word, with shoulders and everything, with the touch o' accent from Down Under to give him an air of the exotic. Meanwhile, Stiles is never going to play an airhead and I think that has more to do with her eyes than either her hair color or body type. You just know this is a smart character and I do not mean conveniently smart in a "Legally Blonde" sort of way. Of course, this is going to be enhanced by the fact that Stiles seems to be destined to be the queen of the Shakespeare updates, having added "O" to her resume along with this film.

The consensus is that Shakespeare wrote the Petruchio -Katharine plotline of "The Taming of the Shrew" while somebody else did the inferior Bianca subplot and that divison of quality pretty much applies to this film as well. The Bianca-Cameron subplot is used to kickstar the main Kat-Pat pout and then sort of becomes background noise. In fact, the relationship between school doormat Michael Eckman (David Krumholtz) and Kat's best bud Mandella (Susan May Pratt) becomes more of a rooting interest on the part of the audience.

The adults are comic foils for the main festivities in this one, but there is a pretty nice array of talent running around making the most of their bit parts, especailly Allison Janney as Ms. Perky, David Leisure as Mr. Chapin, and Daryl Mitchell as Mr. Morgan (who proves you can rap Shakespeare). Larry Miller plays the poor suffering father of Kat and Bianca, and it is nice to see an actor who usually plays such weasely charactrs show he can provoke our sympathy with such subtle shadings. The end result is an enjoyable teen film which will make the literary deities happy by inspiring a few thousand kiddies to check out the "original" story.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A MUST SEE!!! NOT AS CHEESY AS YOU WOULD THINK!
Review: I thought this would be another cheesy teen movie, and sure...there are traces of it in there...but for the most part it is a truly GREAT flick. Very witty. Great acting. Julia Stiles shines as a brilliant artist! I loved it so much I bought it on DVD and VHS!!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Love the movie, DVD is not too impressive
Review: The movie is a cute, funny teen movie with a great cast. I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes movies like She's All That, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, etc.

I don't know if it's worth the extra money to buy the DVD. It has very few extras.

All in all, the movie is great, the DVD is so-so.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A Fresh View of Taming the Bard's Shrew
Review: Being an advocate of the claim that you can find good movies in every film genre, it's always nice to see movies coming out to support my point! The genre of teen movies is considered by many as an easy target for criticism, which of course is not completely unjustified. Nevertheless, films belonging to that genre are not necessarily full of flaws. "10 things I hate about you" is such an example.

I have not read Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" so I cannot say if the script of "10 things I hate about you" is close to the Bard's original work, from which it was inspired. What I can say though, is that "10 things I hate about you" is a fresh, witty movie with sharp dialogs and a rather interesting set of characters.

The plot: What can you do when your high school love interest is not allowed to go on a date with you, unless her older sister first goes on a date herself? What about becoming an ally with your main rival in order to find a guy capable of dating the older sister?

Larisa Oleynik plays Bianca, the pretty, always in fashion but rather shallow, younger sister. Kat (Julia Stiles) is the older sister. She is the one that has to go on a date first, if her younger sister can go out too. The problem is that Kat is unpopular and "incapable of human interaction".
Bianca immediately catches the attention of Cameron (Joseph-Gordon Levitt), the likable, smart (how else would he be able to learn French so quickly??), and shy, new boy on the block. Cameron with his friend (David Krumholtz, in a role that provides some good moments of laugh) will have to try and persuade the wild and scary Patrick (Heath Ledger), who may not be that wild and scary after all, to go out with Kat. Of course, there is the "bad" guy, played by Andrew Keegan, who will try to mess things up, just when everything seems to lead to a happy ending.

I especially liked the Kat-Patrick couple. Stiles and Ledger definitely have the required chemistry and are able to make us believe how their relationship gradually develops into genuine love.

Apart from the main characters, a big asset of the film is the supporting characters, like the English teacher (who makes a habit of throwing Kat out of his class, without any apparent reason) or the sex-obsessed counselor (who tries hard to find fitting words for her new novel...)

Overall, "10 things I hate about you" offers quite a number of moments of genuine laughter, without ever resorting to cheap or crude humor. It is a movie that you will enjoy, if you know what to expect.
One thing though, I have to note as a negative: there were no real extras in the DVD version to completely justify such a purchase.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not My fave.
Review: This movie was entertaining. But it wasn't my fave. It has some
hilariously funny moments but it's just funny and stupid.
Overall, I reccomend it.


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