It made perfect sense to bring Doyle's book to the big screen--unfortunately the humor and emotion got completely lost in translation.
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07/09/09
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I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)
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Reviews Counted:110
Fresh:16
Rotten:94
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
With its painfully awkward shifts between pat sentimentality, hackneyed teen-movie tropes and parent-baiting raunchiness, there's little to love about I Love You, Beth Cooper.
07/10/09
Top CriticForgettable teen comedy has lots of sex and drinking.
07/10/09
This is the worst version of Can't Hardly Wait imaginable. Denis shouldn't hang out with Beth. Beth shouldn't give Denis the time of day.
07/12/09
Chris Columbus has fallen off the edge of the earth. His latest film is a misguided ship sailing among an increasingly rocky body of work.
07/28/09
The filmmakers lacked the courage and conviction to tell an honest, character-based story and resorted to something that has been massaged into a more comfortable, easily consumable cinematic morsel.
07/10/09
Top CriticMost of the characters are one-sided and boring and the actors who play them are so bad the movie suffers for it.
08/02/09
The woefully unfunny I Love You, Beth Cooper is a teen sex comedy's worst enemy.
07/10/09
This is pretty average stuff.
08/24/09
It seems to want to be an edgy story, but it's just depressing.
07/10/09
Succumbs to really dumb comedy routines.
07/09/09
Panettiere, I’m sad to report, is a dud as the title character, a supposed wild thang who never rises above the level of runty, obnoxious mall chick, down to the roll-on tan.
07/09/09
Top CriticThe troubles start with the casting. Rust is only 28, but he has the hangdog look of a 50-year-old plumbing salesman. Charisma is not his strong suit.
07/10/09
a film of convoluted shallowness and bloated melodrama
07/09/09
Does Chris Columbus owe somebody a favor?
07/10/09
It just tries a little too hard. If the movie were a high school geek and the American audience were the prettiest cheerleader, this would not be a match.
07/10/09
Sweet, funny, and smart in unexpected ways
11/12/09
A film so badly executed that you have to wonder if Larry Doyle (who serves as screenwriter) ever read his own book, let alone wrote it.
07/09/09
Here's the bottom line: Denis Cooverman might love Beth Cooper. But I don't.
07/10/09
Though one understands the desire to return to one’s roots, root rot is always a consideration.
07/10/09
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