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50The problem with I Love You, Beth Cooper is that aside from Denis' speech at the start, everything else seems familiar.
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Although the teenage audience is notoriously undiscriminating, it's hard to imagine many kids turning out for this laugh-free comedy.
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35Lumbering comedy, adapted by Larry Doyle from his own novel.
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75Isn't especially hilarious, but it has a warm sense of humor instead of a string of gross-out jokes. It'll be a cable mainstay.
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50Of the two co-stars, what I can say is that I’m looking forward to their next films.
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50Isn't a terrible addition to the teen coming-of-age party movie catalog. It just feels dated.
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50For a teen film to resonate, it has to feel honest, and I Love You, Beth Cooper simply comes off as too paint-by-numbers to achieve any level of emotional authenticity.
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50This leaden teen comedy is meant to be lively, but it's curiously bland.
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50Panettiere, I’m sad to report, is a dud as the title character, a supposed wild thang who never rises above the level of runty, obnoxious mall chick, down to the roll-on tan.
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50There's a sense that a much better movie is trying to get out but it never attains escape velocity.
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50The movie feels like something parents want their kids to see. Harold and Kumar wouldn't want anything to do with Beth Cooper or Denis Cooverman. You're probably not going to like them much either.
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50Since that gifted, attractive performer is Hayden Panettiere, who has already won a wide following for "Heroes," it's a wonder that the studio hasn't been more heavily promoting her appearance in this decent, genial youth comedy. After all, she does play, ah, Beth Cooper.
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38The film quickly turns unintentionally, and unrelentingly, awkward.
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25Aiming for the heartfelt hilarity of "Superbad," I Love You, Beth Cooper is just super bad.
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25A funny thing happened to Larry Doyle's 2007 debut novel on the way to the multiplex. It turned into its own ring of coming-of-age comedy hell.
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40Painfully unfunny, I Love You, Beth Cooper is more likely to elicit the opposite reaction.
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0This unfunny, unoriginal, charmless teen comedy is so stunningly awful from start to finish, it's amazing to think its director has made a single film before, much less a dozen.
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Sloppy, not funny, downright stupid, ridiculous as well as horribly themed and shot.
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30Ends up as little more than a recursive footnote to the infinitely better up-all-night teen comedies of, you guessed it, John Hughes.
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83The story is timeless; this could have taken place when Doyle graduated in '76 -- or any year, really, since the effects of high school linger throughout adult life and nerds are forever.
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8I was stunned to learn that "Beth Cooper" was adapted by former "Simpsons" writer Larry Doyle from his young-adult novel and directed by "Harry Potter" helmer Chris Columbus. Rarely have two seasoned Hollywood professionals produced something so painfully, amateurishly, relentlessly unfunny.
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40Moves along, taking two steps backward into crassness for every clever or just plain sweet moment it offers. Although many of the movie's problems seem to be rooted in the script, Columbus has such a heavy touch that he sabotages nearly every scene.
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Not a remake -- it just feels like one.
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30Drab and incoherent teen comedy.
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30Peaks early -- like, during the first three minutes -- and rapidly goes downhill from there.
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Perhaps the best thing that can be said about I Love You, Beth Cooper is that the title is correctly punctuated. Beyond that, the movie is a disappointingly flabby teen flick.
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30A more accurate title might be "Sub-Bad."
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Joyless, offensively stupid end-of-high-school farce.
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25There’s hardly an authentic second in the film.
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75Has some smart flashes, and a few of the young performers resemble real people and not the usual prefab teen idols.
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Plays like a revival of a John Hughes classic.
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