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Awesome Movie

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Can't Hardly Wait (1998): Dir: Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont / Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embly, Lauren Ambrose, Seth Green, Jenna Elfman: Teen comedy about moving onto the next stage of life. It centres around a party where sex and loud music are the norm. Jennifer Love Hewitt is tired of countless sexual innuendos and Ethan Embly is a love struck graduate who has kept a hand written love letter for four years in hopes of giving it to her. Film serves as another example of teens viewed as sex starved alcoholics. Predictable tripe directed by two people, which is perhaps the film's biggest surprise. Their names are Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont who do well in a sequence in which a note transcends about a room. Unfortunate a decent script never floated about the set or this might have been better than the concocted formula crap that it became. Hewitt basically sits and looks pretty while Embly bellows and wails about his urge to share his feelings. It is obvious that they will connect and that Hewitt will look at him with starry eyes. Lauren Ambrose and Seth Green dislike each other and are trapped in a washroom until they finally put differences aside for sexual conquests. Then there is Jenna Elfman making a ridiculous cameo as an angel who hasn't anything better to do. With its total lack of anything original, I can't hardly wait for studios to quit producing crap like this. Score: 3 / 10

Those who make these ridiculous teen-age pictures which is supposed to show the coming of age after high school graduation do a disservice to the youth out there. High school is shown as one big preparation to graduate and drink the night away and that college shall be a 24/7 non-stop continuation of this.As in all these type of films, we have an assortment of characters where Joe College usually winds up behind the egg-ball at film's end and love is realized by others.Enough of the wild parties at a graduate's home. How convenient that the parents aren't home.These pictures really lack substance when you think about it.

during the 90's there was a slew of movies of this Genre coming out. I had no interest in Freddie Prinze, Jr., The American Pie Cast or Rachel Leigh Cooke at the time...Not because they weren't talented, but because of the amount of fluff their names were attached to. As a Teenager, I could not relate to ANY of these Teen Flicks until "Can't Hardly Wait" came along. It was practically a Spoof with a Plot. I remember being happy about the Character's resolutions, and most of the characters were played by funny actors. I decided pre-Robot Chicken that Seth Green was a genius after this movie. Perhaps it is the way you recognize all these characters hitting their extremes as Caricatures that makes us want to keep watching this movie.The other teen flick from the 90's I recommend is "10 Things I Hate About You." Again, another movie that goes overboard showing the High School experience, and doesn't force a sincerity that isn't there.

The film is a good depiction on views on the future and sudden realizations before their life truly starts. The film is about the party after graduation involving nerds and jocks alike. Seth Green plays the "Cool in his own mind" type of guy and really makes this movie special. The main character is good as the nerd who just wants his break for once instead of being broke. As a nerd, it was good seeing what happened to the jocks. Overall, anybody anywhere will like this movie, it is funny, it is witty and the stars are just so numerous it becomes sort of a "Which star comes next" type of movie. I rate this film 72%.