Less of a movie and more a collection of 1980s teen movie cliches.
Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
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Reviews Counted:45
Fresh:20
Rotten:25
Average Rating:5.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: It's graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and you know what that means - time to party. And not just any party, either. This one will be a night to remember, as the nerds become studs, the... It's graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and you know what that means - time to party. And not just any party, either. This one will be a night to remember, as the nerds become studs, the jocks are humiliated, and freshman crushes blossom into grown-up romance. Will Preston (Ethan Embry) finally talk to teen queen Amanda (Jennifer Love Hewitt)? Will whiteboy rapper Special K (Seth Green) hook up? Writing/directing team Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont (JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS) pay loving tribute to the 1980's teen films they obviously adore, updating the genre for a new generation of young people. [More]
Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Charlie Korsmo, Seth Green
Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Charlie Korsmo, Seth Green, Lauren Ambrose, Peter Facinelli, Jaime Pressly
Director: Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont
Director: Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont
Screenwriter: Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont
Producer: Jenno Topping, Betty Thomas
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In between these humorous lines is a series of arguments and conversations between characters, which are more flat than those of real life.
A decidedly healthy antidote to the hate-driven, ghoulishly cynical bloodlettings of Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer and the rest of that sick ilk.
A failed attempt to recapture the exuberant magic of such highschool movie classics as American Graffiti, this is a loud and boisterous comedy, in which the entire action is set during an interminably long graduation night.
The title seems unexpectedly appropriate, as it accurately summed up my feelings about sitting in the theater and anticipating the arrival of the end credits -- I couldn't hardly wait.
Most of the film feels a bit trite; too much of it comes off like warmed-over jokes from other teen romp flicks.
Flip through any yearbook, and you'll find the stock characters who amusingly populate the teen-age comedy Can't Hardly Wait.
The film might have been good if its writer/director duo had concentrated more on characterizations and less on getting cheap laughs.
A mostly funny, sometimes sentimentally nostalgic look at the last days of the greatest days of most of our lives.
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