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Summary: Great chemistry=A+
Review: I was bored one night and I wanted to tune into something just to kick back. I found out this movie was on Cinemax OnDemand so I watched it. As I'm watching it, I'm thinking this movie isn't too bad. Then the following day, my opinion changed on this movie. The movie went from a not too bad movie to watch occasionally to a must have movie. The movie is great because of the chemistry between Nick Cannon and Christina Milian. Cannon plays Alvin, a really smart guy with two part-time jobs but is a social outcast. Milian plays Paris, the most popular girl in school and the girl that every guy in high school dreams of dating. Alvin is one of those guys and when Paris takes her mother's Escalade in for repair, Alvin buys the parts to fix it and they make a deal that they have to pretend to be boyfriend and girlfriend. She turns him into a cool person and everybody likes him. But his ego gets in the way of his future and his original friends lose respect for him, his family is concerned about him, and Paris comes to like the old Alvin instead of the new Alvin. I really like this movie. Alvin is awesome because he's someone we can relate to and Paris is sweet and hot. This movie is a combination of two movies I hate. Those movies are Class Act and Can't Hardly Wait. I hate each movie for a different reason. I hate Class Act because it's off-key and I hate Can't Hardly Wait because JLH is in it. But this movie has a better script and everybody plays their part well here. Kenan Thompson does a great job as one of Alvin's friends and Steve Harvey is hilarious as Alvin's dad. This movie further exposes how biast movie critics are and how political The Oscars are. This movie has great laughs, great characters, great chemistry, and a great ending and all that equals a great movie!
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Summary: Steve Harvey: The Scene Stealer!
Review: "Love Don't Cost a Thing" is a remake of an 80's movie "Can't Buy Me Love." The thing that saved this movie was Steve Harvey. He was probally in this movie for about twenty, twenty five minutes, and he stole every scene that he was in. It was also kind of sweet and you feel bad for the main character Alvin, played by Nick Cannon. Cannon was in the hit "Drumline" last year, which I missed, but I'm sure he did fine in that movie, because he did well in this. The story of this movie is the same as "Can't Buy Me Love," and unlike that movie, this one works. Cannon is joined by Christina Millian, who probally could have been replaced by somebody a little less cute, because she wasn't that right for the role."Love Don't Cost a Thing" is about Alvin Johnson, a nerdy kid that is usually invisable to the other students at his high school. He works in a local auto shop, where he is quite good at what he does. When he's not hanging out with his friends Walter, Chuck, and Ken, he is working on making a car for a science competition. He also gets embarrassing sexual advice from his father Clarence, played by Steve Harvey. Steve Harvey has a comedic talents where you can't help grinning because he is grinning, and you know that something funny is going to come out of his mouth. He has a crush on a girl, Paris, but so does everybody else in the school. His luck changes when Paris wrecks her mother's car. Her mother is away for the weekend, but Paris needs it fixed before she gets home. Alvin makes a deal with her. He could fix the car before her mother comes home, and she will pretend to be dating him so that he could become popular. She agrees. The next Monday at school they pretend to be dating, to the shock of the school, including her crowd of friends. With advice from her, he begins to change his image. From nerdy Alvin, to cool Alvin, much to the dismay of his friends who begin to not like him because she is not being himself. Alvin and Paris begin to fall for each other, and that makes Alvin question weather he should go back to his normal self, or continue with the image that everybody else thinks is cool. The chemistry between Alvin and Paris is well done. You could feel for these characters and throughout the movie you are always hoping for them to get together with each other, even though they might not, because she already has a boyfriend. It was a good movie, but its problem is that it has scenes that are useless. Useless scenes ruin many movies, and "Love Don't Cost a Thing" is one of them. Worth an afternoon theatre ticket, but for an evening show you should see something else. ENJOY! Rated PG-13 for sexual content/humor.
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Summary: Bad remake, but good film!
Review: I have to say if you ever saw the movie Can't buy me love, then you pretty much know what it's about. I just have to say that when it comes to the facts of a remake this one is way low on my scale. I mean the guy pays the girl 1500 hundred dollars plus labor for two weeks of being popular. In the other film it was only a thousand dollars, and a month's worth of being popular. The only parts I liked was that it was funny, but it definitely was not a true remake. Good potential overall, worth a rental at best, I wouldn't but it though!
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Summary: An unfortunate movie....
Review: I realize that in this day and age, some people go to the movies to be midlessly entertained without giving any thought to the messages on display in the film. If you are that kind of person, you may be slightly entertained by this movie because there is plenty of eye candy. (Honestly, every girl in the picture is fine and they wear a minimal amount of clothing most of the time!) But if you want to save your money, you can probably get the same rise out of watching the rumps jiggle on BET. DO NOT PAY FULL PRICE TO SEE THIS FILM!!! Noticably absent from the main cast of characters in this film are any ethnicities other than African-Americans. There is exactly one white girl who is actively involved in the plotline. The film-makers seem to want the audience to believe that black teenagers are over-sexed, popularity-chasing hedonists who are incapable doing anything else. Even though the stars of the film come true in the end, there is no real lesson on display because none of their peers ever see the light for themselves. What is the take-home message for the millions of Afican-Americans who have already been trapped by our materialistic way of life in this country? Please help stop this kind of irresponsible film-making by making it unprofitable for the producers to continue to portray black people in this manner. Stay home cause it'll be on HBO soon enough.
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Summary: Love don't cost a thing was off the chains
Review: I think Nick Cannon and Christina Mullan made a great couplethe only thing that i hated was when Paris (Christina Mullan) was trying to get Alvin (Nick Cannon) attention and he just kept fronting and dissing her and of course she was mad and sad and as soon as she got home he was right on her doorstep begging for another choice and then the best part was at the end when theese fellas wanted Alvin and his crew to backoff the front aisle but they didn't because Alvin wasn't scared and he had done a speech on how he was playing himself and PARIS FELL IN LOVE WITH HIM
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: I think the movie was of a good quality, and the actors that were casted for the story did an excellent job. The story basically covered what happens in some of our lives, and it makes you think about some of the things that you've done to fit in to a particular group or crowd.
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Summary: The best movie
Review: I think this was a great movie. This particular movie taught me that trying to be popular in school can cause you a lot of grief in the long run. Popularity isn't for all students, and being isn't everything. Note: If you are a nerd in school, stay a nerd because if you try to hang out with the popular kids, it can cause you lots of grief.
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Summary: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Review: I thought this movie was pretty bad. Firstly, because I do not have an appreciation for Nick Cannon's work. I think he is a very corny actor, rapper, whatever. I don't know any remakes that are as good as the original, but this one was bad. I only went to see it b/c I was outnumbered by my friends (I'm mad about my $6). Anyways, the 80s version is multiple times better. I'm so glad that the original is on Oxygen's favorite movie list.
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Summary: A good remake of Can't buy me LOVE!!!!
Review: If you seen the original Cant buy me love then you should know what to expect. Nick Cannon plays as Alvin whos a outsider and wants to become populuar with the rest of the cool kids Christina Milian who plays Paris is the hottest girl at the school,rich,sexy,hot man im about to break a sweat!!She crash her mom car and Alvin pays for the cost but in one condition that she pretends to be his girl for 2 weeks. Overal the movie is very good I like it alot and it teaches you alot especially being yourself.Overal just buy it you wont be disapointted.
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Summary: is about alvin johnson a nerdy kid it school.
Review: is about a nerdy kid in school who is trying to be a cool guy tryed to talk to the cool girls and tryed to be man. but he works in local auto shop where he is quite good at what he does. when he's not hanging out with his friends he is working on a car for a science competition.he also gets embarraassing sexual advice from his father. he has a crush on a girl paris but so does everybody else in the school his luck change when paris wrecks hemother car so he had to fix that car before the mother come home like in two weeks.form
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