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Summary: Great film with quirky twists
Review: Mandy Moore is an awesome entertainer, and this film proves it. Her quirky character is lovable and honest, and the film itself is the same. Absolutely great film, a must-see for everyone!
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Summary: A Movie worth seeing just for Mandy Moore, a Rising Talent
Review: HOW TO DEAL
(*** 1/2 stars out of 5)
Mandy Moore stars as Halley Martin in 'How To Deal', a coming of age movie aimed for teenage girls. Halley is a teenage high school student who doesn't believe in love because of the examples of love gone wrong around her. Her parents have gotten a divorce, her sister has got engaged to the wrong guy and Halley is left to deal when she meets Macon, a guy that plays mind trick games on her and throws stones at her window at night. A lot happens to Halley in just one whole year of high school which forces her to deal. Her friend's boyfriend tragically dies and then she finds out she's pregnant with his baby, her father gets re-married and her sister Ashley has relationship problems with her soon to be husband. All of this leaves Halley with a bunch of theories on how love just doesn't exist.The plot is much more suited for a teenage soap opera rather than a movie and originality isn't the movies greatest asset. Sometimes the movie takes on too many subplots than it can handle rather than enjoying the characters freshness but although this is the case what 'How To Deal' does best is show off a rising talent in Mandy Moore. She has a undeniable screen presence, a fresh appeal and she carries her lines with great emotion unlike many of the recent singers turned actresses. The young star rises above the script full of plot holes and she comes across as just plain likeable
Allison Janney is witty and funny as Halley's mom who has her own developed character unlike many other teen moms in various teen movies. 'How To Deal' is a movie worth seeing just to watch Mandy Moore, a gifted actress whom is on the path to superstardom. I believe the best is yet to come from this talented actress.
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Summary: I still don't know how to deal.
Review: Hey, I respect Mandy Moore as both an actress and singer, but this film didn't do anything for me. The reason is simple. Everytime you think it's going to rise above melodrama, it just proves that it is in fact just that. On a good note Mandy performs well and there are some nice supporting characters like Halley's mother and pot smoking grandmother. To bad the script is mediocre. It's worth a look, but only worth owning if you must have everything that Moore does. The DVD features: Deleted Scenes, Commentary w/ Director & Stars, 4 Featurettes, Music Videos, DVD-ROM Content*, & More.
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Summary: wat do ya get when you cross violence and style? HOW TO DEAL
Review: Ok in all fairness, Kill Bill Volume One was pretty cool, but the sword fights in it are nothing compared to the sequence in which Mandy Moore fends off 20 zombie ninjas armed with only her trusty tampex pearl. SIMPILY GENIUS! Clair Kilner is the next John Woo. Like Woo, who uses doves to off the violence of his gunplay, Kilner uses turtles to provide a foil to her/his helter-skelter gurrila filmaking style. And the fart jokes never quit amazing, with Chris Farley giving his impeccable delivery of WACKY SLAPSTICK COMEDY as ninja zombnie number 3. Ironicly, Mandy Moore (who uses the codename Cobra Vixen X) dispaces him with booze and pills. The cinimatography or whatever is pretty cool too,(...) Anyway, when Dr.Doolittle unleashes the hoarde of the twenty or so flying ninja robot zombie sharks with epilepsey, The puppetry is amazing, and i have not witnessed better character development since Attack of the Clones and the Godfather pt III. Rounding out the all star cast are Robert Downy Jr as a coked-up samurai who teaches mandy how to eat magical jellybeans so that she can unlock her her "inner dragon-beast" to grow 3 stories tall and spit napalm, which is a wonderfull homage to Apocalypse Now. Carrot Top also makes a cameo as Mandys recovering alchoholic father who is terminaly ill with colon cancer and trains parrots for a living, so that he can support Mandy in going to Yale. His perormance is heart-tugging, much like a basket full of kittens and love. Panthor, the CGI dog who rides a motercylce that turns into a jet is voiced by hip hopper "50 Cents" and provides constant companionship and freestyle talent. However, How to Deal shows some anti-semitism in the scene where 50 cents character is crucified and shot nine times by flying ninja robot zombie shark (...) So that sums up why this movie earns 5/5 stars and will top out Citzen Kain as the best movie ever made. How to deal? Mandy anwsers that question with pop hits and a belt fed machine gun in vietnam! There is no better romantic comedy on the market!
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Summary: how to deal Review!!
Review: The movie, How to Deal sort of a copy of the book Someone you like...isn't it? It is sort of the same except that a few details are changed!!!
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Summary: ONE OF THE WORST OF THE WORST
Review: Don't get me wrong, I really like Mandy Moore as an actress, but this movie suckd arse! Never watch it!
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Summary: Another cheesy chick flick.
Review: I fell in love with the character, Hallie. I could relate myself to Hallie with our opinions on love. The movie was cute, and I liked it better the second time. I don't think the movie proveys a good message to teenagers. It seemed allright to have sex, and get pregnant. Even Hallie, the good girl persay started getting involved with the boy in sexual ways. It was a okay movie, the book is good too. The movie consists of two novels being put together, but the first part in HOW TO DEAL signifies the movie better than the second part.
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Summary: Read the books, this is missing a few key scenes.
Review: I read the reviews of this movie, and was skeptical. But I rented it on payper view, and I found it worth the money. But I do have a few battles to pick: Alot of topics were crammed into this one hour and thiry minute movie. Maybe too much. I liked Trent Ford, but had pictured Macon as slightly edigier. Macon and Halley's relationship was rushed, too rushed to be the focal point of the movie. The rest was good, I read both books,and even though parts were changed, I did enjoy it. Mandy Moore was wonderful in this movie, she had the ability to play the character much better than I had anticipated. I highly recommend this when you're bored, and keep an open mind while viewing.
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Summary: Buy A Walk To Remember
Review: How to Deal dosn't really live up to the high hopes that one might aspect....this movie flopped in theaters and is certainly bound to flop on DVD and VHS...
Mandy Moore plays this love cycnical who suddenly out of the blue falls in love with a troublemaker at school...the plot is dazed confusing and toatlly predictable... It jumps around from Mandy's stoned grandmother to Mandy getting into a car accident...What amazed me the most was how people and events were appearing out of nowhere...and I hate to say it girls but Mandy Moore comes out as kind of obnxious in this film...
The teen crowd will hate and it was definately not worth twenty three dollars...buy your daughter,niece, sister, or best friend A Walk to Remember instead and let the US Army use this movie to torture terrorist suspects.
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Summary: GR8 Movie for Teen Girls and Those of us who still Remember!
Review: This movie is a movie that most teenage girls will be able to relate to. It looked very familiar to me and I'm not even in those years anymore. Divorce - Check, Pregnancy - Check, Death - Check, Love - Check, Raging Hormones - Check, it's all here! Mandy Moore does an excellent job as Halley a smart, funny girl with a lot of baggage. She unintentionally falls in love with Macon. Must be there to support her pregnant best friend, her lonely mother and her crazy (pot smoking) grandmother. How to Deal is a funny and heartfelt movie. Definetly not deserving of the bad reviews, because if any of these reviewers were ever, or can remember being a teenage girl, wasn't the whole thing just an extended drama and comedy act? It was for me!
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