Strong and Moving!

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

I saw this movie for free and I still feel ripped off. Don't waste your time. A hour and a half you'll never get back again. It's so predicable!!!! Either of these 2 could act their way out of a paper bag. I have a hard time believing Melissa J. Hart is so popular. She is a minor celebrity with limited talent. The guy is not much better. They should return your money if you actually payed to see it. Go to twitter or Facebook and tell Melissa J. Hart you want your money back. I think she can afford to return your 10 bucks. High school drama is not my thing I guess. So, go do something else like comb your hair or wash your car. Take care DCGJ This is my opinion.

I really enjoyed this movie. It is like all Romantic comedies of course - and generally I am not a fan - but Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina the teenage witch) does a really good job portraying the romance. I thought the relationship was really authentic and believable. I felt actual chemistry between the couple. I gave it ten stars because it is easily worth the $5 that you pay to get this movie. I literally walked into blockbuster and picked it up for $4 tax included... If your looking for something that isn't predictable - than go for another genre b/c Romantic comedies are always predictable, and this movie is no exception. If you go into it with low expectations, you will be pleasantly surprised. I say, if your thinking about getting it - go for it!

This is one of the funniest movies around, the dialogue is so funny and it doesn't make them sound like they are child geniuses ( think Dawson's Creek), or have no personality like most teen flicks around. In this movie the characters actually have depth and they are not just your average cookie cutter characters.Chase is a funny, sarcastic outcast who is asked to go to the prom with Miss Teen Spirit, Nicole - a perky blonde (who is actually quite smart), as her date for the prom has backfired and now she has resorted to go with him rather than to go alone. Chase is stuck going with her in attempt to make his ex girlfriend jealous enough so that she will want him back. They both get to know each other again and realize so much that they never knew before.Sure this film might be considered a little dated in some of the scenes but the appeal of Adrian Grenier and the underlying messages in the film are more than enough to make you like it. Melissa Joan Hart looks too old to be playing a teenager but Adrian Grenier is very good as Chase Hammond, he brings character and depth into his character and is very convincing.No other teen movies are very much like this anymore, Cinderella Story, How to Deal, Raise your voice don't even compare to this movie. It has a lot of heart, and the characters are very likable and believable. Don't let the age of the movie fool you, it is really one of the better teen flicks around.

I really enjoyed this movie. I saw it for the first time on Comedy Central earlier this year, and had to go buy the DVD. I'm not really into the teen movies, so I was surprised I enjoyed it so much. Breakfast Club wasn't bad, but it was a little too cut and dry for me. You had the freak, the geek, the bad boy, the jock, and the princess. But I didn't like how each character fit so perfectly into their little slot. Nobody had any layers or any characteristics of any of the other "groups". Sure they found ways to identify with each other based on outside occurrences, but no person is all jock or all geek or all freak. As for the modern teen movies, they're all too raunchy for me. They're less about the characters and more about stereotypical teens doing stereotypical teen things with no real substance. Just one disgusting joke after another. Drive Me Crazy, was a fun and fresh teen movie. It showed many different teen characters, but many of the characters had different facets. Very few of the characters were stereotypical in my opinion. De Vine was the sweet popular girl who used to be unpopular but got thin and became popular but is not so sure she likes popularity any better than unpopularity (how often do we see that girl in teen movies?). Nicole was the popular girl who was perky and smart, but also seemed to care about other people. Brad was the top jock, but he fell in love and had his heart broken (how often does that happen to the top jock in teen movies?). Ray is the freak who is really the coolest character in the movie. All of the acting was above average for a teen movie. There are some great lines in the movie. The two main characters had excellent chemistry. I found the storyline believable. But I fell in love with and married the boy next door myself. He was the rebel and the jock rolled into one, and I was the freak and the smart girl rolled into one. We were friends growing up, had some problems in our early teens and didn't speak for years, then got back together a little later on and have been happily married for 8 years. So the storyline isn't that hard for me to believe, and reminds me of my own teen years. That being said I do think the writers dropped the ball in a few places. The ending was pitiful. Having the parents hook up was repulsive to say the least. Then they walk off in the sunrise to the tree house. That was ridiculous. What seniors spend the morning after their prom night in their tree house? It's like the writers didn't know how to end the movie. I didn't really like how they just left us hanging as to how Chase felt about Nicole until he left Dilcey hanging and showed up at the dance. Did he have feelings for her when he went back to Dilcey, did he not and realized it the night of the dance? I didn't like how Ray was just left out at the dance once Chase showed up. So I do have some complaints with the way the movie ended, but that doesn't take away from the storyline up to that point, the enjoyable multi-faceted characters, the chemistry between the two major characters, and the excellent writing up to the final few scenes of the movie.