Whatever It Takes Reviews

This is simply an assembly of cinematic cliches.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Please, oh please, make these teen-targeted romantic comedies go away.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

What you're actually hearing is the sound of a really old coot preaching a very practised sermon.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Whatever It Takes is certainly nothing new or ground-breaking, but for what it is, it's entertaining and slightly above-average.

| Original Score: 2.5/4

This is about as lame as teen comedy/romance films come.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

It never has enough confidence to let itself go and shock or surprise the audience.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

An occasionally amusing but otherwise unimaginative teen-based comedy.

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You -- yes, you -- can write a teen comedy. Whatever It Takes is proof.

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While it isn't really worth the trip to the theater, it's good enough for a rental when it comes out on video.

What the film takes for granted is that there is a young horde waiting to be sold the old tripe again, a group very specifically targeted (from about age 15.2 to 19.4) as laugh patsies.

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The predictable scenarios don't allow the actors many opportunities to distinguish themselves.

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Mark Schwahn didn't really write Whatever It Takes; he more or less assembled it out of spare parts, pop-culture detritus, the best and worst leftovers available to a first-time writer on a school-lunch budget.

Yet another leaden, witless, cliché-drunk, teen romantic comedy.

Lame script.

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Although the leads are appealing, you're better off watching them for free on the little screen, in Once and Again....

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Worthy sentiments all, but not exactly fresh insights.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

There are way too many poop and crotch jokes.

What's that you say? You want what? Originality? Or at least something marginally distinctive? That's not what these movies are about!

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Tepid, predictable fantasy.

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Falls flat with unbelievably bad scenes that are also just plain unbelievable.

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