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Love Don't Cost a Thing
Metascore
37 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 23 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 23
  3. Negative: 9 out of 23
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  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    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.
  2. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Kevin Carr
    70
    A fun movie. It accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do. It’s a great first date movie.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    70
    Often rowdy and uproarious, the film also has surprising depth and subtext.
  4. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    60
    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.
  5. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    58
    Director Troy Beyer, who adapted the original screenplay, can't seem to decide if this is a morality play or a music-video fantasy.
  6. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Carla Meyer
    50
    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.
  7. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    50
    The movie is so dependant on its source material that it fails to put Carter, Thompson, Penn, and Christy to better use.
  8. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Liam Lacey
    50
    The music, at least, is welcome.
  9. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    50
    The cast is uniformly high spirited and attractive, and Ms. Beyer's direction, apart from a few over-weighted Wellesian camera angles, is functional.
  10. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Stephen Hunter
    50
    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.
  11. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Michael Rechtshaffen
    40
    Instantly forgettable.
  12. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    40
    Looks mostly like the same-old, same-old.
  13. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    40
    Remains short on charm, purpose or laughs.
  14. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Gregory Weinkauf
    40
    Sadly, though, the movie as a whole feels blatantly dedicated to fleecin' da kidz.
  15. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    38
    But where the original was slight but sweet, the remake is depressingly superficial and cynical.
  16. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Angel Cohn
    30
    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."
  17. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Keith Phipps
    30
    This is teen product at its most generic.
  18. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    30
    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.
  19. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Allison Benedikt
    25
    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. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    25
    The result is an atrociously unfunny, unromantic, and unpleasant product.
  21. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Scott Brown
    25
    You realize you're watching a snuff film, where the victim isn't just teen innocence but teen romance.
  22. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Laura Sinagra
    20
    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.
  23. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    0
    A sexed-up Afterschool Special pretty much guaranteed to render audiences comatose.
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User Score
7.9 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 27 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 21
  3. Negative: 4 out of 21
  1. StAcEyC.
    10
    Of course a ten im mean nick cannon wats FINE!!!! hell yeah i watched it like a million times! i like the parts wen nick got his new hair and cloths plus wen they were at the beach and finally the last part actully ill rate it a 1000000000 lol!… Full Review »
  2. D.W.
    1
    I love this movie.
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