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Critics Consensus: Unoriginal and unremarkable high school satire adds little to the genre.
Critic Consensus: Unoriginal and unremarkable high school satire adds little to the genre.
All Critics (81) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (46) | Rotten (35) | DVD (4)
Drew Barrymore's virtuoso performance smooths over the plot holes.
The most exhilarating American movie I have seen this year -- which isn't saying much.
Barrymore again displays her remarkable ability to get the audience rooting for her singular blend of vulnerability and sunny optimism.
Drew Barrymore has been well cast as someone who doesn't act her age.
Relatively inoffensive and relentlessly mediocre.
While Never Been Kissed belongs heart and soul to Barrymore, Sobieski's natural poise and assurance reminds us that her own prime time is not so very far away.
A genuinely sweet and romantic story for teens.
The material is pretty much the same as She's All That and the other recent high school movies, but Barrymore has the big screen stuff to pull it off.
This is an okay date flick. It's somewhat forgettable, like high school should be, but possessing a few moments it'll be tough to get out of your head.
A surprisingly solid and entertaining teen flick
The less Never Been Kissed forces its material, the more enjoyable it is.
Barrymore demonstrates an acute sensitivity to the angst of adolescence, and handles it with kid gloves.
All time favorite chick flick of mine. Just rewatched it again and still love it just as much. One of Drew's best and I like LeeLee Sobieski in this too. People in recent articles saying it's problematic due to the teacher relationship are really missing the point that she's 25 years old and nothing actually happens until she admits as much. Honestly I just find this sweet and amusing and kind of sad too with the Josie Grossie stuff.
Super Reviewer
I love Drew in these rom coms. She plays a geeky girl who goes back to high school as an undercover reporter.
This is a movie I loved when I was younger, but as I got older it got more ridiculous and less funny. It has a story that has been used in other films, but Barrymore gives it a fresh, cute feel, and it has heart too, so I still like it.
Rob Geller: Wow, that was just like "Carrie"! I thought she was gonna kill us all. "A Comedy With Class" Never Been Kissed is one of the sorriest excuses for a movie I have seen. It's so annoyingly joyful. It's basically one huge delusion. Hey, I can go back to high school where I never really fit in, and have a second chance. Oh, look now I'm the most popular girl in school and all the boys want to tickle my belly button from the inside(obvious Youth in Revolt allusion). But I'm still the girl I was when no one liked me. I still have a great modesty about me that I'll give up my reign on top for a fellow nerd in need. And you know what? I'll still get the guy. Give me a fucking break. Could this movie be anymore predictable and dull? Answer: Probably, but not much more. The movie is extremely flawed in a variety of ways; some don't even pertain to the travesty they kill this plot. Their high school research was awful. These characters didn't feel like real high school students to me in the way good high school movies like Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Dazed and Confused did. It feels more like their not even using cliche, but just the cliches, cliches. I know that makes no sense at all, but it is the only way to describe this film. Here's the plot. A copy editor get assigned to go undercover at a high school posing as a teenager, and find a story. When the story involves her getting in good with the cool kids, her brother comes along for the ride also posing as a student. This is one of those romantic comedies that you have to have a vagina to watch. I'm a guy who can appreciate good, romantic movies, but when they are as tired and shamefully optimistic as this one, they can't be enjoyed by me. I'm actually a fan of Drew Barrymore, and it pains me that I hate this movie and her character as much as I do, but it's just the fact. The last scene of this movie made me nauseous at how fake and corny it was. I'm gonna put myself in front of the world and let my love come to me. Put five minutes on the clock. I wonder what's going to happen. Fuck this movie.
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