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0For the audience, it's like watching the dreckiest of teen puppy courtships trying to pass itself off as ''Annie Hall.'' La-de-blah.
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40No one expects a light teen romance to be "Madame Bovary," but this is Colorforms filmmaking.
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12Stinko movies often unwittingly critique themselves -- and the brain-dead romantic comedy Down to You (which Miramax understandably didn't screen in advance for critics) is no exception.
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0The confusion it mistakes for true soul-searching is about as realistic a look at the politics of youthful attraction as one of those "Did somebody say McDonald's?" commercials is a look at mainstream American family values. Did somebody say McCheese?
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30The best the makers of Down to You can hope for is that girls in their early teens--clearly the film's target audience--will be so carried away by its charismatic stars that they'll overlook the film's various flaws.
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10Neither character seems especially insightful, and their intense focus on the self and the terrific delicacy of their feelings comes to feel narcissistic and annoying.
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10Extremely good-looking people tend to be shallow, self-involved and not very bright. Let's call this statement what it is: a form of prejudice, a stereotype. It is, sadly, a stereotype that Down to You does everything in its power to promote.
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10Prinze and Stiles regularly talk to the camera, but that doesn't make their characters self-aware.
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50Latest Freddie Prinze Jr. vehicle stalls at on-ramp.
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50A pleasant addition to the time-honored genre of terminally cute youth romance movies, roughly equivalent to staring at a saccharine greeting card for a while.
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21There's nothing wrong with Down to You that a smart script and savvy direction couldn't cure.
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30Floating this material slightly above the assembly-line level is the energetic cast and the efforts of writer-director Kris Isacsson.
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30A Boring Young Couple.
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0One of those puppy-love movies that make you feel like you're slowly drowning.
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50Ostensibly a story about first love in college, and I never believed a frame of it.
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0A disaster: dull, predictable, at times cringe-worthy.
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Just another cutesy, rather toothless comedy about the pitfalls of first love.
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38Prinze charming, but can't save movie.
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The highlights of the movie are a great song, Sam Phillips' "I Need Love,'' which comes at the end, and Stiles' affecting crying scene.
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20Something oddly appealing about this mushy romantic tale, but first-time feature writer-director Kris Isacsson doesn't have the skills to raise it far above its formulaic foundation.
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25Ah, young love. It can be quaint and heartwarming, but is largely inconsistent and painful -- kind of like this movie.
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KritiK.9Pretty cute love story. Nothing wrong with watching a slightly dull movie at times. The love scenes are really sweet!
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BubbaS.10Stellar. Soul-touching. It will move you to the depths of your very being.
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KrissyR.0