I Love You Beth Cooper (2009)
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Reviews Counted: 115
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 99
Heavily reliant on stereotypes and shallow teen comedy clichés, I Love You Beth Cooper is a humorless affair that fails to capture the charm of its source novel.
Average Rating: 3.7/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 30
Heavily reliant on stereotypes and shallow teen comedy clichés, I Love You Beth Cooper is a humorless affair that fails to capture the charm of its source novel.
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When a geeky high-school valedictorian throws caution to the wind by expressing his love for a popular cheerleader during his graduation speech, life finally starts to get interesting in this coming-of-age comedy adapted from the book by journalist/author/screenwriter Larry Doyle. Denis Cooverman (Paul Rust) may have brains to spare; it's guts that he lacks -- or at least, he did until today. Stepping up to the podium to deliver an inspirational speech to his graduating class, Denis decides that
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Cast
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Hayden Panettiere
Beth Cooper -
Paul Rust
Denis Cooverman -
Jack Carpenter
Rich -
Lauren London
Cammy -
Lauren Storm
Treece -
Shawn Roberts
Kevin -
Jared Keeso
Dustin -
Brendan Penny
Sean -
Marie Avgeropoulos
Valli Wooley -
Josh Emerson
Greg Saloga -
Alan Ruck
Mr. C -
Cynthia Stevenson
Mrs. C. -
Pat Finn
Coach Rupp -
Andrea Savage
Dr. Gleason -
Violet Columbus
Sullen Girl (Angelica) -
Anna Mae Routledge
Patty Keck -
Anja Savcic
Victoria Smeltzer -
William C. Vaughan
Paul Bergie -
Darien Provost
Young Rich -
Samm Levine
Convenience Store Clerk -
Ellie Harvie
Female Cop at High Scho... -
Dallas Blake
Cop at Lake -
Emily Tennant
Raupp's Sophomore #2 -
Maggie Ma
Raupp's Sophomore #3 -
Natalie Von Rotsburg
Librarian -
Dharrol Alves
Laughing Teen #1 -
Karyn Michelle Baltzer
Laughing Teen #2 -
Devin Douglas Drewitz
Laughing Teen #3 -
Lucy Lu
Laughing Teen #4 -
Brandon Barton
Party Boy #1 -
John Gulayets
Party Boy #2
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All Critics (116) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (100) | DVD (5)
There's the potential for 'Superbad'-style comedy when Denis and his pal go on the run with Beth and friends, but the pace is slow and lines fall flat thanks to long pauses and hammy delivery.
Top CriticThe story quickly -- and I mean quickly -- devolves into an unimaginative high school retread.
This is dreadful. This is a pathetic excuse for a movie.
The script by Larry Doyle, based on his novel, has some smart flashes, and a few of the young performers resemble real people and not the usual prefab teen idols.
This unfunny, unoriginal, charmless teen comedy is so stunningly awful from start to finish, it's amazing to think its director has made a single film before, much less a dozen.
A flat, tired rehash of teen movie story tropes, the film attempts to have it both ways by winkingly acknowledging its secondhand origins.
Columbus tries to bridge the gap between the 80s and the modern teen flicks from Judd Apatow, but it never quite hits its mark.
It so desperately wants to be an '80s high-school romp, yet comes across as a film made by people who have never even seen one.
It's nothing but a painful, tedious, cruel, and mean spirited exercise in sadism that actually tries to transform child molestation in to a comedic bit...
The movie could have been much improved by slicing a few frames from each shot, and reining in Rust's weirdness just a bit%u2014so as to not contribute to the lumbering, hallucinogenic feel of his initial characterization.
Sweet, funny, and smart in unexpected ways
A bimbo pride teen comedy whose cheerleader girl entourage of shallow sexpots gets enlightened too, about how 'useful' and even entertaining smart geeks with tons of brainy information to spare can be, even if totally lacking in hunk appeal.
A bimbo pride teen comedy whose cheerleader girl entourage of shallow sexpots gets enlightened too, about how 'useful' and even entertaining smart geeks with tons of brainy information to spare can be, even if totally lacking in hunk appeal.
Laughs are in equally short supply as interesting, much less likable, characters.
So much emphasis is put on pratfalling that it leaves the sensitive moments completely stranded, unable to make themselves felt for fear they may get a punch in the mouth.
Mean-spirited and coarse with a shallow girl at its hollow heart, Beth Cooper is Superbad without the super.
This is pretty average stuff.
This adaptation of Larry Doyle's bestseller is too soul-starved and lethally bland to warm the cockles.
An undistinguished work.
We've seen it a million times before, and better. The situations are forced, the script is weak, the pace drags and, frankly, it just isn't funny enough.
A sexed-up, dumbed-down romp that can't decide whether to please undemanding adults, sniggering adolescents or naughty children who shouldn't be watching in the first place.
The mixture of obvious jokes and winsome sentiment pretty much robs the film of any guilty pleasure value it might have provided.
The real problem is that it doesn't have any heart. This is by-the-numbers film-making in which even those moments when the characters step off the merry-go-round to catch their breath feel manufactured.
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