You won't be disappointed!

Fantastic!

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

To be fair, this film is listed under the Teen Comedy genre so if you generally don't find Teen Comedies tasteful then do yourself a favor and move along. Now as I say it is a Teen Comedy, I should also say that this is a Comedy in the traditional definition of the genre, meaning that it is a Comedy that explores some thoughtful and deep themes before the Act III obligatory turn away. This is what a traditional Comedy looks like: it's life affirming, completely aware of the human body and its limits, the community is reformed where it needs to be, the society merely exists in the earthly space that creates the community (ignoring Heaven and Hell), and it turns away in Act III informed by but not obsessed by some rather ponderous thoughts on what it means to be human in its society. It's not Satire like Scream, nor is it Farce like American Pie or Not Another Teen Movie, so don't come in expecting that you're going to be laughing every few seconds.If you're familiar with the genre you know the story. Nicole (Hart) is a preppy girl in High School, aiming for the handsome jock, Brad (Carpenter), to ask her to a community dance that she's helped organize. Brad falls in love with a cheerleader from another school, leaving Nicole to make a deal with her former childhood best friend and "rebel without a cause" boy next door, Chase (Grenier), to make Brad and Chase's recent ex-girlfriend jealous. From here the plot begins to resemble a gender-swapped Pygmalion (aka. My Fair Lady) slightly as Nicole "cleans up" Chase to make the deal seem realistic. And here is where the "ponderous thoughts" begin to crop up--mostly having to deal with the social masks people wear throughout life in order to maintain some kind of status in their society.Lovely performances are given by Keri Lynn Pratt, Kris Park, and Mark Webber, who play small but well fleshed out character parts that come across as refreshingly new looks at old archetypes (the pretty girl who used to be ugly, the quietly rebellious underdog, & the geeky outcast who both wants to and doesn't want to fit in) that are truthful and never exaggerated.The film's largest weakness is with its antagonists: Alicia and Eddie, who are played by Susan May Pratt & Jordan Bridges. Jordan's Eddie is simply a jerk for the sake of being a jerk--and is hardly developed at all. Susan's performance is well nuanced, but there seems to be a deeper inner life to her character that we are never allowed to see. I feel that this is because Alicia as well as Eddie, are developed poorly compared to other more minor characters. All the characters that you are supposed to care for are developed in quite humane ways, while the two main antagonists (S.M. Pratt and Bridges) are left by the script as nearly two-dimensional stereotypes and the film never bothers to explore how or why they came to be who they are or provide motivations for what they do throughout the course of the film.Overall, the film is a simple and lovely Teen Comedy that is worth watching if you enjoy Teen Comedies and want to see a fairly decent one. It's not the best Teen Comedy of the bunch, but it is quite far from the worst one every made. I'd give it a B/B-.

My liking of this film is simple,here's why just the fact that in the end Melissa Joan Hart's character realizes that a lot of the thing's people are or were in high school don't matter to the outside world,in fact we are all nobody's, and therefore all equal's,some may go off to bigger and better thing's and college is kind of the same way it's not truly the real world some get caught up in it. All i'm saying is that in the end she realizes the truth in high school yea you might be someone in the real world though your just like everyone else trying to make it in the world trying to find your place or niche whatever that may be and it's real, those of us who are not clueless realize that at the moment she did(at the end or nearing the end of high school), and it's great that someone thought of that while writing the script or making the movie however it was discovered it was. The truest line she say's is "he will be winning award's on M.T.V while your still the local weather girl." That is not the only reason i liked it though but that's my favorite thing about the whole film realization not just imagination and truth from somewhere all of us know.

I agree with another poster on every point, but this is simply not in the league of "The Breakfast Club". "TBC" was an edgy, clinical examination of philosophies and attitudes prevalent in the teen condition. The characters and issues seemed real, but the scenario was somewhat forced.On the other hand, the scenarios in "Drive Me Crazy" feel totally natural and believable. The characters and issues seem real enough from what I remember of high school. And as stated by the other poster, the character transitions are not shallow and immediate, but travel through many shades. As a result, perhaps fewer topics can feasibly be covered when compared those presented by "TBC". But we can not only forgive "DMC" for not being a monumental exploratory, but actually appreciate and enjoy the authenticity.The story is told with some class and taste that is rarely found in Hollywood today. The actors/actresses portrayed characters with a lot of warmth, humanity and in a dignified manner.

Drive Me Crazy is the new Comdedy Romance film directed by John Schultz its about popular high school student Nicole Maris (Melissa Joan Hart) who plays a charade with grungy nextdoor neighbour Chase Hammond (Adrian Grenier) after being dumped for the prom, there charade fast turns to a love that neither expected, also starring Susan May Pratt and Ali Larter.Drive Me Crazy actually wasn't a bad film for your typical high school romance movie, it did have good and believable acting in it. Melissa Joan Hart still seems like that young girl from Clarissa Explains It All. I have always been a fan of Ali Larter and she played a good role as the bad girl, the only reason it wasn't great is because I have seen better of this type of film its all be done before.