I Love You, Beth Cooper

I Love You, Hayden…..

The Story:

When Dennis Cooverman (Paul Rust) gives the commencement speech at his graduation, his friend tells him to let it all out. So he proclaims his love for Beth Cooper (Hayden Panettiere) the head cheerleader, and reveals things about everyone in the graduating class as well as some other people.

Later Beth confronts him and he invites her to a graduation party at his house. And to his surprise she and two of her friends show up. But also some of the people he offended with his speech. And one of them is Beth’s boyfriend who she just broke up with. So they all get in Beth’s car and drive away. And what follows is wild adventure

Release Date: July 10, 2009 (US)

Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Directed by: Chris Colombus (Home Alone 1&2, Mrs. Doubtfire, Nine Months, 2 Harry Potter movies, Rent)

Starring: Paul Rust, Jack T. Carpenter, Hayden Panettiere, Lauren London

Budget: $18,000,000

Gross Revenue: $16,509,336

Review:

The story of a nerd falling in love with the most beautiful prince/princess in school is a common plot in teen movies. Then, why we have to watch this one? The answer is Chris Colombus, the box office director and producer. After he directed two Harry Potter movies, we almost forgot that his specialization before was in comedy genre.

Like in other Colombus’ movies, this film has its own proportion of laugh and moral lessons. The good thing about his movie is, it has a warm sense of humor instead of  a string of gross out jokes.

So, does this movie good? Not really. There are a lot of gap in the story. Why did Dennis fall in love with Beth? And the most weird, why Beth even want to go out with Dennis? In this movie, Dennis looked like a total idiot, he didn’t even show any good side of him. Of course he still looks like a nice and warm-hearted boy, but that’s about all.

What I really enjoyed to saw was Hayden Panettiere performance. Not her acting, because it was dull, but her overall figure. She really looked cute and the typical of girl which every boy in the school would proud to be her boyfriend. She really has a different kind of sexiness compared to others young adults like Megan Fox, Blake Lively or Ashley Greene.

My Rating: C+

IMDb user rating: 5.1/10

Rotten Tomatoes meter: 15%

Metacritic: 32/100

Yahoo! critics: C

Yahoo! users: B