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Summary: Can't Hardly Wait
Review: Can't Hardly Wait was pretty funny! There's a lot of laughs amd some all out crazy lines and also a little romance as well. And the soundtrack to this movie is awesome (RUN DMC, Busta Rhymes, Guns N Roses ...)It's the last day of school for the Senior Class at Huntington Hill Sr High and it all comes down to one last party before it's good bye and all of the kids go to college or wherever. After 4 years of lamenting over the one girl, Preston (Ethan Embry) finds out that his dream girl, Amanda (Jennifer Love Hewitt), has broken up with her boyfriend. Fate has finallt given him a second chance and he plans on making good on it at this party. This movie was funny. The foreign exchange student had me rollin! And Seth Green's character (Kenny) was totally clueless and the fact that he was so sad made it hilarious. Plus every teen movie star was in this movie (Selma Blair, Melissa Joan Hart, Jamie Pressly, Charlie Korsmo, Breckin Meyer and Donald Faison and many more). CAN'T HARDLY WAIT is a great kick back and laugh comedy with a hint of romance but mostly fun. Check this one out and also check out 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU and if you're looking for some old school laughs, check out FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH.
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Summary: As close to "Fast Times" as the 90's has produced
Review: Nobody will ever mistake this film for "The Godfather" or even "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (the seminal 80's teen-angst movie), but "Can't Hardly Wait" is no less enjoyable than either of them and was undeservedly overlooked by the public when it was released to theaters. I hope this DVD presentation opens the eyes of those who missed it the first time around. It is a funny, sad, sometimes mean-spirited, but ultimately hopeful movie whose central figure is played by an underrated Ethan Embry (who did excellent work but went unnoticed in "That Thing You Do!"). Those who purchase this DVD will thoroughly enjoy the director's commentary which accompanies it (featuring, in addition to the writer-directors, actor Seth Green, who is hilarious in the role of urban gangsta wannabe Kenny). It was only after being informed by them that I noticed that Embry's hair color changed a bit throughout the film and that Lauren Ambrose was under-the-weather during her parting scene with Embry. Will moviegoers remember this film as fondly as they did "Fast Times" ten years from now? Probably not. But they should.
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Summary: Can't Hardly Wait
Review: It really is a shame that Ethan Embry has not gained more starring roles. though many of his films feature him as a goofy guy, Can't Hardly Wait is his proof that he can play a leading man wonderfully.
This simple story of a man in love is jam-packed with an all star cast that creates perfect little subplots that all come together in the end. it's hysterical! cheesy when it's supposed to be and serious when needed.
In the last scene, the two main characters finally come together and share great chemistry when they finally do. it also shows that ethan embry, aside from being a great actor, is one of the best on-screen kissers i've ever seen.
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Summary: 5 Star Movie!!! 3 Star DVD special features = 4 Star DVD
Review: One of the best "teen comedies" out there. It is about Preston (Ethan Embry of Empire Records, another good film) who sees "fate" work in his favor once again as Amanda (Jennifer Love Hewitt), the girl of his dreams since freshman year, breaks up with her boyfriend. Preston sees the post graduation party as his last opportunity to tell Amanda that they are meant for each other before leaving town the next morning. The rowdy, alcohol filled post-graduation monster party if filled with hillarious scenes and substories which include: Special K(Seth Green) and Denise (Lauren Ambrose) locked in a bathroom together and Nerdy William (Charlie Korsmo) seeking revenge on his jock nemisis Mike Dexter (Peter Facinelli). Basically this movie is all about "fate". There is a whole part of the movie devoted to fate when Jenna Elfman gives the moral of the movie "There is such a thing as fate, but it only takes you so far, once you're there its up to you to make it happen". Advice that everyone should take to heart. This movie is a 5, no question in my mind because of the memorable quotes, scenes, and performances. If you buy DVD's just for the special features you will be disappointed with this one. As a DVD , this DVD is really lacking. The only extras that it has are the trailer, a Smashmouth music video, commentary, and photo gallery. This DVD would have received 5 stars if only there were a cheesy but entertaining "making the movie featurette" and especially deleted/changed scenes. 3 stars for the DVD with minimal special features. Even though this DVD is really lacking, I highly recommend buying this movie and hope in the future that they come out with a "Special Edition" of this DVD because it really deserves it.
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Summary: Great, but why no director's cut?
Review: This movie came out just before the teen flick rennaissance, and remains a cult favorite instead of a box-office smash. It's as good or better than the party/prom flicks that followed it, and a worthwhile addition to anyone's DVD collection. The two romantic leads are great: Ethan Embry's pop-eyed earnestness makes him likeable, Jennifer Love Hewitt gets to show the downside of being beautiful and adored (poor kid). There are also plenty of notable cameos. Jenna Elfman (Dharma and Greg) has a funny bit as a stripper/angel, the always welcome Seth Green is pretty fly for a white guy, and Charlie Korsmo gets laughs as a geek who enters the social stratosphere by lip-syncing "Paradise City." All in all a funny, feel-good movie. But the commentary on the DVD left me hungry for more. The directors had to cut several scenes, and re-edit others, to insure a PG-13 rating from the MPAA. The scenes that they talk about sound hilarious. They also describe how several awkwardly cut scenes should have played. The scenes sound brilliant. So, why not put a director's cut on the disc? How hard would it be? I'd like to actually see the movie the director wanted to make, not just hear about it. One of the points of DVD is to give the director that final say. So one star docked for the DVD edition, but still a worthy addition to any teen-movie (John Hughes and the next generation) fan.
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Summary: a feel good party movie
Review: this one you can stand if your paying attention to the leads. the extras nearly trash this one. Seth Green is the scene chewer as Kenny Fisher, the kid whos a wannabe gangsta and his scenes are the highlights. Ethan Embry is wonderful, Lauren Ambrose is bitchy but thats sorta hot, Jennifer Love Hewitt is a bore sometimes but shes easily good, Charlie Korsmo as the geek is hilarious when he stands up and dances and sings to Guns and Roses Paradise City and Peter Facinelli is the mbodiment of all jocks. the party scene is nice but some extras like the annoying Melissa Joan Hart, Jerry O'Connell, Jenna Elfman and all the other jocks nearly burn this one into the ashpahlt. favorite line
Kenny Fisher(Seth Green)- are you crying.oh no baby please!, you are far to fine to look so sad.
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Summary: One of the best high school party movies ever
Review: This is one of the few feel good movies that I would give this high a rating. It isnt anything new, the characters don't break any new ground, but that isn't important. It is like listening to Beethoven, no new ground is broken, but how well are they playing it? The cast is perfect, they not only were all decent actors and fit the roles, but they don't look like actors. They are people that you can see yourself going to high school with, not my white trash high school;), but from the average high school. Seth Green is in perfect form as the white boy who wishes he was black, posing and growling more than acting with others around him groaning. Ethan Embry plays a believable book worm, flawed and nerdish, but believably so. Jennifer Love Hewitt is the clas princess, and looks the part. She is pretty, but has the look of the girl next door not a model in teenager clothing. Rounding off the cast is the refreashing Lauren Ambrose playing the bitter intellectual. She was rated as the new Jeannine Garafalo, unfortunate she didn't do much after this as she was a better actress than Jeannine. As well as the underrated Charlie Korsmo, playing the uber nerd of the class. Interestingly this was his last performance before joining the department of energy. As previously stated, they don't really break any new ground. The white boy wishing he was a black guy has a moment of self realization. The bitter intellectual realizes that she might be at fault for her lonliness and hooks up with a very unlikely person. The quiet book worm gets courage to ask out someone who was beyond his level. The jock has a sobering moment when he sees where is life is headed. etc........ No new ground broken, but it is treated more seriously than most movies of its genre. The pacing is well done and keeps you interested throughout the movie. The humor is offbeat at times and has a freash feel to it. Though the characters are cliche, they make you interested in them and their plights. I found myself wanting the bookworm to give his letter to the girl, for the princess to discover who she is alone, etc.. Plus they used their soundtrack well, good songs and they fit the scenes that they were in. All in all it was a good movie, not great, but good. It is also one of the few feel good movies that I would advise to others. It is a movie that is idealistic and has a happy ending but doesn't become sappy or preechy like others of its genre. It also manages to be one of the best high school party movies ever.
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Summary: A favorite of mine
Review: I cannot put my finger on why I love this movie so much. It is just another teen movie, but if it is on, I have to watch it. No matter where it is in the movie. Unlike the other teen movies of the 90s, it doesn't preoccupy itself with sex. There is more of a plot than "To just get laid". Ethan Embry is good as Preston Meyers and is a likeable character. Peter Facinelli is hilarious as the jock. Seth Green reminds me of so many people in my high school. Pretty sad, really. Jerry O'Connell is hilarious in his short seen as Trip McNealy, the sexual icon at Huntington. He gave me advice about college that I use today: "Wear flip-flops in the shower. I got warts all over my feet."
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Summary: Can't Hardly Wait
Review: The first 20 minutes or so of this plotless romp about a post-graduation all-night party is torturous, at least for anyone who isn't a moron or a masochist. But once you're pulled into the forced fun of the piece and accept all the noise, the pain subsides into something merely blinding and numbing. You feel as wrecked as the partying kids on the screen. Co-written and co-directed by a pair of newcomers, Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, "Can't Hardly Wait" (which was titled "The Party" up until about a month ago) is essentially a shameless rip-off of Richard Linklater's 1993 film, "Dazed and Confused," an insightful period piece set in 1976 about suburban Texas teens carousing on the last day of school. There are also bits and pieces here from "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," "American Graffiti," "Animal House," "16 Candles" and even the ancient "Bye Bye Birdie," but most of the ideas come from Linklater's movie. We get the "Bye Bye Birdie" connection right off when Elfont and Kaplan stage a non-singing variation on "The Telephone Hour" from that film, in which one teen gossips to another, spreading the word that the graduating class' golden couple, Top Jock Mike (Peter Facinelli) and Homecoming Queen Amanda (Jennifer Love Hewitt), have broken up. Mike is going off to college and now has no time for high school girls. This leaves the field open for Preston (Ethan Embry), an introverted, brainy kid who has nursed a crush on Amanda for four years and now plans to take action. Interwoven throughout the all-nighter are several missed encounters between Amanda and Preston, as well as subplots about a white kid who thinks he's African American (Seth Green), a geek (Charlie Korsmo) and his two sycophants (characters who are direct steals from "16 Candles") and the class cynic (Lauren Ambrose), the only intelligent person on hand, whose favorite quote is Oscar Wilde's "A true friend stabs you in the front." Actually, the young cast works wonders with this material. There really isn't a bad performance here, with Embry, Ambrose and especially Hewitt turning in impressively self-composed work. The filmmakers tease us with Hewitt's character, at first only showing her in bits and pieces (sort of like Godzilla in its movie). But once Hewitt gets her first movie-star close-up, the audience went wild and applauded as if she were the Meryl Streep of Teen Trash. Hewitt is a sweet, pleasing presence who almost redeems the junkiness of the movie surrounding her. There are also cameos by TV's Jenna Elfman ("Dharma and Greg") as an erotic dancer and Melissa Joan Hart ("Sabrina, the Teenage Witch"), who's funny as "The Yearbook Girl," a dweeb intent on getting as many autographs in her yearbook as possible. And Jerry O'Connell ("Scream 2") pops up as a former high-school prince who has gone to pot. He's playing the role that Matthew McConaughey nailed so perfectly in "Dazed and Confused," a film also noted for early screen appearances by Ben Affleck, Parker Posey, Rene Zellweger, Milla Jovovich, Rory Cochrane, Jason London and Joey Lauren Adams. You might want to check it out. It achieves what "Can't Hardly Wait" only timidly hints at -- the giddy class structure among teenagers. It also makes partying look like a lot more fun.
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Summary: Simply the Best
Review: Of all the so called "teenage comedies" this one tops that list. It is the ultimate "feel good" movie.
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