The Phoenix Network:
 
 
About  |  Advertise
 
Features  |  Reviews
Best2012Vote-1000x50

John Tucker Must Die

...and so must this film  
By PETER KEOUGH  |  July 26, 2006
0.5 0.5 Stars

Maybe if John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe) did die, this sad foray into teen romantic comedy wouldn’t be so demoralizing. But the high-school superstar and lothario keeps bouncing back, as resilient as a Republican administration, after taking the worst that a trio of wronged exes (Arielle Kebbel; Ashanti; Sophia Bush) in search of vengeance can dish out at him. As a last resort they set him up to fall in love with Kate (Brittany Snow), a newcomer who’s “anonymous” because she doesn’t fit into any of the school clichés, er, cliques. The outcome of that ploy, like everything else, will surprise and delight only those for whom such misogynist stereotypes as binge eating, or an estrogen joke last seen in the remake of The Longest Yard, are refreshingly hilarious. Director Betty Thomas, whose clever The Brady Bunch Movie must have been a fluke, seems to have learned everything she knows about teenagers from old John Hughes movies; some crappy concepts never die.

On the Web:
John Tucker Must Die on Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/johntucker
John Tucker Must Die's official Web Site: http://www.johntuckermustdiemovie.com

Related: Hollywood bribes us with thongs, Becoming Jane, Night at the Museum, More more >
  Topics: Reviews , Celebrity News, Entertainment, Internet,  More more >
| More

 Friends' Activity   Popular   Most Viewed 
[ 02/19 ]   The Addams Family  @ Shubert Theatre
[ 02/19 ]   American Lamb Jam Tour  @ Charles Hotel
[ 02/19 ]   Boston Ballet in "Simply Sublime"  @ Opera House
More Information
ARTICLES BY PETER KEOUGH
Share this entry with Delicious
  •   REVIEW: CORIOLANUS  |  February 16, 2012
    In a line of fascist-style stagings of the Bard from Orson Welles's 1937 black-shirted Julius Caesar to Richard Loncraine's brown-shirted Richard III (1998), Ralph Fiennes sets his lean and hungry take on Shakespeare's tragedy in a mo dern-day war zone, paring the play to a brisk two hours.
  •   REVIEW: SAFE HOUSE  |  February 15, 2012
    Daniel Espinosa's over-edited but engaging spy thriller delves into edgy territory untouched by any of the numerous movies it imitates: it has Brendan Gleeson do an American accent.
  •   REVIEW: THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY  |  February 15, 2012
    The most touching love story and best children's movie in a long time, Hiromasa Yonebayashi's adaptation of Mary Norton's book The Borrowers employs old-fashioned animation techniques to create a world that is familiar, uncanny, and luminous.
  •   REVIEW: RAMPART  |  February 15, 2012
    The rotten cop flick has become a mini-genre of sorts, a subset of noir, going back at least to Orson Welles's Touch of Evil .
  •   REVIEW: THE OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2012: DOCUMENTARY  |  February 10, 2012
    The films in this program contain some of the most powerful images to be seen on the screen this year.

 See all articles by: PETER KEOUGH

MOST POPULAR
RSS Feed of for the most popular articles
 Most Viewed   Most Emailed