Get Over It
Get Over It
PG-13 | 08 March 2001 (USA)
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When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long girlfriend, Allison, he soon begins to lose it. But with the help of his best friend Felix's sister Kelly, he follows his ex into the school's spring musical. Thus ensues a love triangle loosely based upon Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", where Berke is only to find himself getting over Allison and beginning to fall for Kelly.

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Maidgethma

Wonderfully offbeat film!

Exoticalot

People are voting emotionally.

UnowPriceless

hyped garbage

AshUnow

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

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Eric Stevenson

This was by no means terrible, but I was underwhelmed by it. I think the main flaw is that the crude jokes were really annoying. We didn't need to have all this stuff about guy's butts being shown and women accidentally losing their bras. That really did weigh it down. Also, some of these characters (especially the leader teacher) can be pretty annoying. With all that being said, it certainly had its good points. I'll give it credit for having a story about the actual play in the actual movie that's reenacting the actual play. That was pretty interesting.We even get this nice "September" dance number at the very end. Still, the bad definitely outweighed the good. I liked how I could recognize Kirsten Dunst. With me watching more and more movies all the time, I can recognize more actors and actresses. I even found the main character to be pretty likable. I guess it was too short. When you make a Shakespeare adaptation, it should probably be more epic. I guess it's mostly harmless. I realize that I'm not into teen movies at all. **

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disdressed12

it thought the first half of this film was pretty good.instead of being your standard teen romantic comedy,it actually had some slapstick thrown in,some of which was quite amusing.to me,that was kinda different for this genre.at least it was something i hadn't seen before.not that that means anything.and the movie also had a bit of a musical bent to it,which i liked.sure,most of the movie is fairly predictable.but then most movies are,at least to a point.anyway,the movie moves along fairly well for the first 45 minutes or so.but then it gets really bogged down.you kinda know how things are gonna end up,but it seemed to take forever to get there.as a result,i just wanted it to finally end.for me,because of the slow(and to me,boring)second half, i can only give Get Over It a 5/10

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James Hitchcock

When high school student Berke Landers is dumped by his girlfriend Allison, in a desperate attempt to win her back he auditions for the school drama production, a musical version of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", even though he has no experience of either singing or acting. Fortunately, his best friend Felix has a musically gifted sister, Kelly, and Berke enlists her help to get himself through the audition. Initially, he only succeeds in winning the part of Third Attendant, but after an accident puts out of action the student initially cast in the role, he finds himself promoted to the leading part of Lysander, playing opposite Allison's Hermia. The other two leading roles of Helena and Demetrius are played, predictably enough, by Kelly and Allison's new boyfriend, Striker. In an equally predictable plot twist, Kelly finds herself falling for Berke. The result is a love-triangle which loosely parallels the one in Shakespeare's play.This film is sometimes referred to as a "teen comedy", but it is rather more innocent than some other recent films in that genre. Apart from a running joke about an over-sexed dog, there is little of the grossness that characterised films like "American Pie" or "The Sweetest Thing". If those are typical "teen comedies", "Get Over It" is perhaps best categorised as a romantic comedy whose leading characters just happen to be teenagers. There is, however, plenty of humour, much of it directed a the film's adult characters, such as Berke's embarrassingly liberal parents, the sort of middle-aged swingers who still think they are teenagers themselves, or Desmond Forrest Oates, the hilariously camp and manic theatrical director, or the glamorous but terminally accident-prone Dora-Lynn (played by real-life supermodel Kylie Bax), still at school in her twenties because she spent six years in a coma.If there is a moral to this story, it is that a good heart is more important than good looks. Kirsten Dunst's Kelly, although she has plenty of girl-next-door charm, is not a classical beauty like Melissa Sagemiller's Allison and Berke is rather nerdish compared to Striker. (In British slang the term "berk" means a fool; I wonder if the scriptwriters were aware of this when they chose the name). The unsympathetic characters tend to use "loser!" as a term of abuse for anyone they hold in contempt, but at the end of the day it is the handsome but arrogant Striker and the beautiful but self-centred Allison who end up the losers in love. Allison ditches Striker when she discovers that he is no more capable of being faithful to her than she was capable of being faithful to Berke. She hopes that she can resume her relationship with Berke, but it is clear that he will choose Kelly, who loves him for himself, over Allison who merely regards him as a consolation prize because she cannot get the boy she really wants.Shakespeare's comedies frequently end with several weddings, and this structure is parallelled in "Get Over It". Berke ends up with Kelly, Felix and Dora-Lynn fall for one another and a third romance develops between two other students. Even the dog finds a lady friend. One might think that a musical aimed at teenagers would be dominated by loud rock music, but the music is often surprisingly lyrical, especially the main song "Dream of Me", supposedly written by Kelly herself. (Although it did perhaps need a rather stronger voice than Kirsten Dunst's to put it over). "Get Over It" may not be Shakespeare, but it is an amiable, good-hearted and often amusing teenage rom-com. 6/10

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nez150

Hilarious movie and I laugh Every time I see it. It just never gets boring. Alright so it hasn't got the greatest dialogue and is a bit thin in places but you cant beat it for fun laughs and making you feel good! the whole premise is the old story of losing the love of your life and trying anything to win her back but in doing this our hapless youth falls for his best mates sister without even knowing it and what ensues is a mix of laughs, tears and a dog humping anything that moves.....or doesn't! Really didn't think i was going to enjoy this film but i was pleasantly surprised by it. Top drawer movie and a must see, if only for Martin short's portrayal of a slightly unhinged stage director! Thought I would hate it but loved it, give it a go!

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