Movie: Can't Hardly Wait
PG13, sexual content, alcohol.
Romantic Comedy
Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt
Ethan Embry
Director/Writer: Harry Elfont/Deborah Kaplan
Producer: Betty Thomas
Rating: 71%
In this classic teen flick about a graduating class getting
their final highschool party, the entire movie is cleverly
set at the party it-self throughout the entire hour and a half.
Amazingly, this film still provides a good laugh, quick humor,
and is obviously aimed towards a teenage audience.
Basically, the synopsis is simple. It's a party. It's
a big party. It's a really big BIG and I mean BIG party!
It's the final, huge, HUGE... HUGE blow out party of the year.
Apparently, Amanda (Jennifer Love Hewitt) had just been
dumped by her idiotic jerk of a boyfriend who thinks that
college will be a plentiful sess pool of women just dying to
get nailed by him. However, as the movie progresses, he
realizes that it's not the way it's gonna be, and he needs
to get Amanda back, and fast. Meanwhile, Preston, the gumpy
teenage love fool who has had a crush on Amanda since the 9th
grade tries to deliver this letter to her which expresses
his undying love. Somehow, she recieves the letter but has
no idea who this Preston guy is. Complications arise,
people get fed up, and an angel stripper becomes Preston's
influential guide.
While sub-plots role, and old friends re-unite, this film
is a definate teen hit! It's fun, humourous, and memorable.
While some profanity and themes were questionable to me,
I still enjoyed it. Overall, it's a good flick though.
Jennifer Love Hewitt did a surprisingly good job in being
the "sensible one" with lines where someone says to her "He's like
the hottest guy in school!" And she replies with the perfect
words "Yeah.. and school's over." Embry as well delivered his part
with style. He shows his innocence and eagerness with lines like
"Amanda's it, she's the one!" In films like these, it's all acting, regardless
the good script, and I must hand it to these guys. They actually know
what they're doing! While I'm somewhat being
redundant, I must say however, that the sub-plots really do add a lot
to the film. They're smooth, interesting, and rather cliche.
Also, as the music generation, Can't Hardly Wait has a die-hard sound
track! I definately recommend it, and if your a teen
who loves the sterio-typical teenage flick, you'll enjoy it.
It's now out on video!