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I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009) Rank 1 Reviews
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Cinema Blend
Then again, it's silly to complain about acting in a movie that's so poorly scripted (by the guy who wrote the original book, no less, Larry Doyle) and so poorly directed by someone who obviously knows better. ...read the complete I Love You movie review at Cinema Blend
Susan Granger
Whether the fault lies with Chris Columbus' inept casting or writer Larry Doyle's formulaic screenplay, adapted from his 2007 coming-of-age novel, is anyone's guess. ...read the complete I Love You movie review at Susan Granger
Philadelphia Daily News
The movie does answer one question: What's director Chris Columbus been doing with his free time? Not much, it appears. ...read the complete I Love You movie review at Philadelphia Daily News
Los Angeles Times
A flat, tired rehash of teen movie story tropes, the film attempts to have it both ways by winkingly acknowledging its secondhand origins. ...read the complete I Love You movie review at Los Angeles Times
Rolling Stone
Aiming for the heartfelt hilarity of Superbad, I Love You, Beth Cooper is just super bad. ...read the complete I Love You movie review at Rolling Stone
The Movie Kit
Pretty damn hard. If you've just crawled out from under a rock and had never seen any other movie of its ilk before, then maybe you'd like it. Maybe. ...read the complete I Love You movie review at The Movie Kit
Belief Net
Parents should know that this film includes extremely crude and raunchy material, constant sexual humor and irresponsible behavior, father encourages son to have casual sex and provides condoms, extended conversation about whether a character is gay, thre ...read the complete I Love You movie review at Belief Net
Chicago Tribune
If your teens express an interest in seeing this movie, make sure they see "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" too, as a sort of antidote. Both are wish-fulfillment fables spanning 24 hours. One is sweet, relaxed and amusing; the other is a soul-crusher. ...read the complete I Love You movie review at Chicago Tribune
I.E. Weekly
Even when Beth's best friends Cammy (Lauren London) and Treece (Lauren Storm) have a threesome with Dennis' pal Rich (Jack Carpenter), all parties end up disappointed. ...read the complete I Love You movie review at I.E. Weekly
The Onion A.V. Club
What follows is a dusk-'til-dawn coming-of-age story in the Dazed And Confused tradition, though that's all the two films have in common. ...read the complete I Love You movie review at The Onion A.V. Club
PopMatters
I Love You Beth Cooper crashes because it can't decide how to handle its many competing conceits. ...read the complete I Love You movie review at PopMatters
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Suffering through "I Love You, Beth Cooper" is like being locked in detention with five idiots misquoting "The Breakfast Club. ...read the complete I Love You movie review at St. Louis Post-Dispatch
San Francisco Chronicle (Peter Hartlaub)
Daily Mirror [UK] (David Edwards)
PopMatters
Miss Cooper, on the other hand, is undeserving and two-dimensional, an object of desire, just as the film's title announces. ...read the complete I Love You movie review at PopMatters
About.com
I Love You, Beth Cooper is an insult to our intelligence, an insult to the genre, and should be avoided at all costs. ...read the complete I Love You movie review at About.com
Chicago Metromix
A caricature of teen life instead of an appreciation of it, the stilted, airless "I Love You, Beth Cooper" rigidly adheres to the novel's basics and loses all of the spunk, wit and complexity in translation. ...read the complete I Love You movie review at Chicago Metromix
Time Out New York
It doesn't help that Rust is a sniveling nonpresence, unable to balance the screen with his female counterpart. In her first major big-screen role, the Heroes star conveys a strange, sad aloofness behind her sexed-up, car-crashing anarchy. ...read the complete I Love You movie review at Time Out New York
Orlando Sentinel
At least this should quickly become one of those blips on Panettiere's resume, a Leprechaun for the New Jennifer Aniston to roll her eyes about on Conan's couch a few years down the road. ...read the complete I Love You movie review at Orlando Sentinel
filmcritic.com
Less geek fantasy than Disneyland, Columbus's tone is wildly inconsistent, swinging from PG gross-out to tearjerker often within the span of a minute. ...read the complete I Love You movie review at filmcritic.com
Time Out New York (Kevin Lee)
Christianity Today
Here's the bottom line: Denis Cooverman might love Beth Cooper. But I don't. ...read the complete I Love You movie review at Christianity Today
thescorecardreview.com
It's the worst movie I have seen this year. This movie brings up a lot of classics. None worse than Say Anything. ...read the complete I Love You movie review at thescorecardreview.com
Slant Magazine
Eventually, Beth Cooper tries to mine some sympathy for its stock characters via sappy speechifying and close-ups of Panettiere looking all misty-eyed, but this seems hypocritically at odds with the film's dominant tone. ...read the complete I Love You movie review at Slant Magazine
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by Tetramobile on July 17, 2009 New York, New York
This movie should have been good. It could have been good, but it wasn't. There are alot of smaller movies like this that work really well, but for some reason this just doesn't. I don't know what it is about this, but it's probably ...
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