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07/10/09
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I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)
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Reviews Counted:109
Fresh:16
Rotten:93
Average Rating:3.5/10
Consensus: Heavily reliant on stereotypes and shallow teen comedy clichés, I Love You Beth Cooper is a humorless affair that fails to capture the charm of its source novel.
Theatrical Release:Jul 10, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $14,706,744
Synopsis: I Love You, Beth Cooper chronicles the story of a nerdy valedictorian who proclaims his love for the hottest and most popular girl in school – Beth Cooper – during his graduation speech. Much to... [More]
Starring: Hayden Panettiere, Paul Rust, Jack T. Carpenter, Lauren London
Director: Chris Columbus
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Reviews for I Love You, Beth Cooper
Top CriticThe writer of I Love You, Beth Cooper says the story is based on a dream. I believe him. This is one of the very few movies where I wanted the hero to wake up and discover it was only a dream.
07/09/09
Top CriticSilly, highly contrived and far from a classic, but it's ultimately a harmless comedic adventure with a terrific cast and plenty of mindless fun that should please its target audience: teenagers.
07/11/09
Wants to emulate a John Hughes film, in much the same way that a crack whore wearing a dime-store tiara wants to emulate Queen Elizabeth.
07/09/09
Top CriticParental Content Review
07/10/09
Bland as the day is long, 'I Love You, Beth Cooper' seems to be a movie pretending to be a comedy. This high-school-graduation-night road trip has been done much, much more enjoyably before.
07/15/09
The story is timeless; this could have taken place when [screenwriter] Doyle graduated in '76 -- or any year, really, since the effects of high school linger throughout adult life and nerds are forever.
07/09/09
Top CriticWe've seen nerds pine for less-unattainable-than-expected hotties before, but rarely does it feel this real...and funny.
07/09/09
I Love You, Beth Cooper is just about worth seeing, thanks to likeable characters and at least one inspired gag, but it should have been a lot funnier and it falls short of hitting its emotional targets.
08/21/09
A miscast and misjudged graduation-night comedy, Cooper occasionally -- only occasionally -- wanders into 'harmless.'
07/09/09
Because other than HP looking cute in next to no clothing, this film is a total waste of time. The jokes range from crude, to daft, to offensive. And none of them are funny.
08/21/09
Painfully unfunny, I Love You, Beth Cooper is more likely to elicit the opposite reaction.
08/21/09
If fun is what you're looking for, you might want to avoid I Love You, Beth Cooper, a drab and incoherent teen comedy.
07/10/09
Top CriticHayden Panettiere provokes many emotions as the title object of desire in Chris Columbus's dreadful teen romance. Love is not one of them.
07/16/09
The mixture of obvious jokes and winsome sentiment pretty much robs the film of any guilty pleasure value it might have provided.
08/24/09
As one-crazy-night teen comedies go, it won't be mentioned in the same breath as Superbad, Dazed and Confused, Sixteen Candles or American Graffiti. Or even Can't Hardly Wait.
07/10/09
So much emphasis is put on pratfalling that it leaves the sensitive moments completely stranded, unable to make themselves felt for fear they may get a punch in the mouth.
08/27/09
If watching this makes you long to be young again, you probably grew up in an Algerian prison.
07/09/09
Sweet, funny, and smart in unexpected ways
11/12/09
There’s the potential for ‘Superbad’-style comedy when Denis and his pal go on the run with Beth and friends, but the pace is slow and lines fall flat thanks to long pauses and hammy delivery.
08/21/09
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