The story quickly -- and I mean quickly -- devolves into an unimaginative high school retread.
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07/13/09
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I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:2
Rotten:25
Average Rating:3.6/10
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 CriticThis is dreadful. This is a pathetic excuse for a movie.
07/13/09
Top CriticThis unfunny, unoriginal, charmless teen comedy is so stunningly awful from start to finish, it's amazing to think its director has made a single film before, much less a dozen.
07/10/09
Top CriticA flat, tired rehash of teen movie story tropes, the film attempts to have it both ways by winkingly acknowledging its secondhand origins.
07/10/09
Top CriticOne high school graduation party that you won't want to attend.
07/10/09
Top Critic[Columbus'] new film feels curiously outdated.
07/10/09
Top CriticMakes for a lively and refreshing glimpse into how the other half lives.
07/10/09
Top CriticA sweet effort that touches all the bases that have been touched so many times before.
07/10/09
Top CriticLike the high school's bison mascot, this romp is lean on fresh laughs.
07/10/09
Top CriticWith roles that seem tailor-made for Michael Cera and Jonah Hill, this nerd wish-fulfillment comedy reminded me of Superbad, though a more accurate title might be Sub-Bad.
07/10/09
Top CriticThe charmlessness of its central characters -- Rust's charisma-challenged Denis, Panettiere's Barbie-hard and vacuous Beth -- makes this putative farce all the more difficult to endure.
07/10/09
Top CriticThe 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 CriticAiming for the heartfelt hilarity of Superbad, I Love You, Beth Cooper is just super bad.
07/10/09
Top CriticI Love You, Beth Cooper moves along, taking two steps backward into crassness for every clever or just plain sweet moment it offers.
07/10/09
Top CriticBeth Cooper isn't a terrible addition to the teen coming-of-age party movie catalog. It just feels dated.
07/10/09
Top CriticAdapted by Larry Doyle from his 2007 novel, I Love You, Beth Cooper peaks early -- like, during the first three minutes -- and rapidly goes downhill from there.
07/10/09
Top CriticWith 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 CriticA disappointingly flabby teen flick that reaches for (and spectacularly fails to grasp) both the effective sincerity of a John Hughes film and the irresistible humor of Superbad.
07/10/09
Top CriticIf 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 CriticWants 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
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