The script by Larry Doyle, based on his novel, has some smart flashes, and a few of the young performers resemble real people and not the usual prefab teen idols.
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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
This 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
It's a misguided, miscast, misleading, mistake of a film.
07/10/09
A 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
The 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
As pleasurable as revisiting the glossy, witty, misadventure-filled realm Hughes created for his adolescent characters is, you've also been here before. Often.
07/10/09
One high school graduation party that you won't want to attend.
07/10/09
Top CriticIt seems to want to be an edgy story, but it's just depressing.
07/10/09
Clearly a new low for the genre as well as a career low for Columbus.
07/10/09
[Columbus'] new film feels curiously outdated.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
I was stunned to learn that Beth Cooper was created by actual filmmaking veterans.
07/10/09
Like the high school's bison mascot, this romp is lean on fresh laughs.
07/10/09
In the real world, this would be called... passive-aggressive... but in the world of adolescent romantic comedies, this is deemed a charming and daring act by a 'nice guy'...
07/10/09
With 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
The 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
Almost diabolically unfunny.
07/10/09
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 CriticAiming for the heartfelt hilarity of Superbad, I Love You, Beth Cooper is just super bad.
07/10/09
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