Wonderful character development!

Who payed the critics

Boring, long, and too preachy.

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

Say what you might but this movie did nothing for me. Maybe even was a tad bit boring. I was waiting for that wow moment the whole time but nothing happened. Deeply disappointed.

Like a soulful, honest cover of John Hughes, the world of teenagers in "Say Anything..." is captured with such love, humor and a healthy dose of grounded romance. Lloyd Dobler is one of the great youth characters in film; punk, romantic, popular, sweet, poetic, and cool, he defies easy categorization yet remains believable through the brilliant writing and Cusack's natural presence. And talk about a nailed ending, with the airplane "No Smoking" ding.

This movie was referred in a book I was reading - Life in Outer Space by Melissa Keil. I found the movie quite boring, picking up pace only in the last half an hour. Ione Skye (Diana) was amazing - a natural beauty and impressive expressions. John Cusack (Llyod) was average. John Mahoney (Diana's Dad) was good.

I rated it 5/10 because I don't like John Cusack acting screenplay is boringIone Skye is not beautiful at least for me i barely could finish itsome goofs In the break-up scene in the car the background changes completely. Before the line "You told your dad?" you can see an intersection and a hillside behind them, then after there is a yellow house and two parked cars.