Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Reece Witherspoon
Buffy stops slaying, moves to New York, and becomes a b*&^%
Hollywood loves to show off their new stars, just look at the number of what I call "high school movies" recently. There's James Van Der Beek ("Dawson's Creek") in Varsity Bules, Rachael Leigh Cook (a few times on "Dawson's Creek" and that heroine commercial) in She's All That. In fact, since this movie has Joshua Jackson (also from, you guessed it "Dawson's Creek") I might as well start calling them "Dawson movies" in stead of high school movies. Anyway, this latest Dawson movie stars Sarah Michelle Gellar ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") and Ryan Phillipe (I Know What You Did Last Summer and 54) who are two of Hollywood's rising movie stars and Reece Witherspoon (Pleasantville) another young up and comer.
Ryan Phillipe and Sarah Michelle Gellar
Sebsastion Valmout (Phillipe) is one of Satan's minions who gets off on doing anything that causing other people great emotional pain. His parter in evil is his stepsister Kathryn Merteuil (Gellar), who favorite passtime is screwing with peoples heads and hurting them. As our story begins Sebsatian reads an editorial in some teen magazine by the daughter of his and Kathryn's new headmst Annette Hargrove (Witherspoon) that states she is saving sex until marriage. Sebastian takes this as his next challenge and makes a bet with Kathryn that he will sleep with her before school starts again. As Sebastian uses his "charms" to get Annette into bed with him he begins to fall for her and by the end he is completely in love with her.
Reece Witherspoon as the innocent girl
I know I ususally I go into more detail about the plot then this, but there really isn't more plot (except the ending) to go into, that and it has been three weeks since I have seen this and I figured I better get a review out quick. This movie was all right, but definitely nothing to get all worked up over. The acting was OK, but the dialogue got pretty lame most of the time. And as much as I like to see teenagers portrayed as more then just stupid, apathetic wastes of space... I don't think the best way to get a good portrayal of youth is to make us look evil. I guess if you like Buffy, or Ryan Phillipe, or Pacey (that's Joshua Jackson from, yet again "Dawson's Creek") you will probably like it, but mostly it was kid of a disappointment. (Sorry Buffy).
