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Drive Me Crazy
Metascore
42 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 24 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 24
  3. Negative: 6 out of 24
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  1. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Carrie Rickey
    75
    Buoyed by the appealing Hart and Grenier.
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  2. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    75
    An impressively competent "how will male teen star get with female teen star at high school dance?" romance.
  3. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    65
    The appealing cast makes the most of the derivative story.
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  4. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    63
    Slight and sweet, not a great high school movie but kinda nice, with appealing performances by Hart and Grenier.
  5. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Mark Caro
    63
    An innocuous teen film.
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  6. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Luke Y. Thompson
    60
    Actually quite agreeable, but only because of a group of actors who are able to salvage the paper-thin material.
  7. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Tom Keogh
    60
    Doesn't go the distance in either story or style, unwilling to liberate itself from real or presumed expectations about what it takes to sell a movie featuring teenagers.
  8. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    60
    Impressively nuanced.
  9. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    58
    Amusing in its very shallowness.
  10. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Phoebe Flowers
    50
    That it manages a certain air of likability is due solely to the considerable charms of Grenier.
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  11. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    50
    Recycles the teen romantic comedies of the last few years...and it's easily the worst of the lot.
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  12. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    50
    Succeeds in its modest way because its stars, Melissa Joan Hart and Adrian Grenier, are pleasant to be around.
  13. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    50
    A minimally tolerable excuse to splice one or two perfunctory scenes between song cues.
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  14. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    50
    Gets by on the watchability of its young stars.
  15. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    50
    Smarter and more engaging than it has to be.
  16. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Van Gelder
    50
    When it comes to an ending, Drive Me Crazy offers no surprises, but it arrives there in amiable, sensible style.
  17. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robin Rauzi
    40
    Like the song, the movie is bouncy and catchy but disposable pop material.
  18. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    40
    Enough to make any thinking person want to shoot a hole in the screen.
  19. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Paul Cullum
    30
    Nothing in this craven exercise... will register in the memory for longer than the walk back to the car.
  20. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    30
    Sloppy and dull in equal measures.
  21. TNT RoughCut
    Reviewed by: Christopher Brandon
    30
    A poor excuse to put out a soundtrack of teen pop songs.
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  22. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    25
    Isn't a movie as much as it is a feature-length screen test.
  23. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Sarah Hepola
    20
    The goal of Drive Me Crazy is simple: to sell tickets by selling fantasy.
  24. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Paula Nechak
    16
    So badly plotted and written that it rarely makes much sense, even with the elementary story line.
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