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Love Don't Cost a Thing
Warner Bros.
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sexual content/humor
Starring
Nick Cannon,
Christina Milian,
Vanessa Bell Calloway,
Kal Penn,
Steve Harvey,
Nichole Robinson,
and
Melissa Schuman
In an attempt to improve his reputation in school, an unpopular but super-intelligent teenage boy (Cannon), hires a cheerleader (Milian) to pose as his girlfriend.
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Troy Beyer
Michael Swerdlick (also screenplay Can't Buy Me Love)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Troy Beyer
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: April 27, 2004
Theatrical: December 12, 2003
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| RUNNING TIME: |
100 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Sweet and kind of touching, and I liked it. The difference, I think, is that the new one is lower on cynicism and higher on wisdom, and might actually contain some truth about the agonies of high school insecurity.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Often rowdy and uproarious, the film also has surprising depth and subtext.

70
Film Threat
Kevin Carr
A fun movie. It accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do. Its a great first date movie.

60
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Kids who are still subject to the slings and arrows of high school will find this a lot funnier than I did, though I did get a bang out of Kal Penn, Kevin Christy, and Kenan Thompson as Cannon's car-crazy pals.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Director Troy Beyer, who adapted the original screenplay, can't seem to decide if this is a morality play or a music-video fantasy.

50
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The movie is so dependant on its source material that it fails to put Carter, Thompson, Penn, and Christy to better use.

50
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
I can't recall the original, or even if I saw it or not. But this variation certainly makes its points effectively, in what must be a more superheated milieu.

50
The New York Times
Dave Kehr
The cast is uniformly high spirited and attractive, and Ms. Beyer's direction, apart from a few over-weighted Wellesian camera angles, is functional.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Clocking in at 105 minutes, Love Don't Cost a Thing drags for stretches. The nicest thing about most standardized teen movies is their brevity. When we all know where it's going, it shouldn't take so long to get there.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
The music, at least, is welcome.

40
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
Sadly, though, the movie as a whole feels blatantly dedicated to fleecin' da kidz.

40
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
Instantly forgettable.

40
LA Weekly
Ernest Hardy
Remains short on charm, purpose or laughs.

40
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Looks mostly like the same-old, same-old.

38
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
But where the original was slight but sweet, the remake is depressingly superficial and cynical.

30
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
This is teen product at its most generic.

30
Variety
Robert Koehler
Stuffed with attitude but just as hackneyed as the original, Love Don't Cost a Thing brings a year of exceptionally lame youth comedies to a fitting conclusion.

30
TV Guide
Angel Cohn
All the money in the world couldn't have saved actress-turned-filmmaker Troy Beyer's lewd, obnoxious, product placement-laden remake of the sweet and simple romantic comedy "Can't Buy Me Love."

25
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The result is an atrociously unfunny, unromantic, and unpleasant product.

25
Entertainment Weekly
Scott Brown
You realize you're watching a snuff film, where the victim isn't just teen innocence but teen romance.

25
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt
About as sharp an updated version of the original as is Jennifer Lopez's song of the same name a modern, Latina version of the Beatles classic.

20
Village Voice
Laura Sinagra
Even in the teen-flick "Sweet Valley" of 1987, there were few places outside John Hughes's brain where paying somebody to be your girl didn't look like prostitution. Yet somebody made the Slow-Times-at-Clueless-High stinker Can't Buy Me Love.

0
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A sexed-up Afterschool Special pretty much guaranteed to render audiences comatose.


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