Expected more

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Blistering performances.

Even though we are seeing Sabrina's Melissa Joan Hart and Adrian Grenier in this to fall in love, it turns out that this film disappointed me! The reason that is because, I didn't feel the story line to flow or made it easier for me to enjoy looking at it!It's just a story about a bad boy who falls for a smart girl because of her looks and this story ends with them being happily ever after. BORING! We have heard of this before like seriously, this movie should've been redone. It's just awful, I would avoid watching this even if you were like me, a fan of the Sabrina the teenage witch show!

Drive Me Crazy (1999): Dir: John Schultz / Cast: Melissa Joan Hart, Adrian Grenier, Stephen Collins, Ali Larter, Susan May Pratt: Mindless exercise about an emotional act of love and those knots that bind in our stomach that are this close to heaving lunch from three weeks ago. It is meant as a starring vehicle for Melissa Joan Hart with an opposites attract formula that died this very year when they released She's All That. The dumber than dumb plot has Hart and Adrian Grenier as next door neighbors recently dumped by ex's and pretend to date each other. Any moron can see the outcome of this without binoculars. The rest is predictable with every teen movie cliché available. Director John Schultz does his best while some set pieces provide amusement, but that doesn't save an absolutely recycled storyline. Hart and Grenier are going by the motions and nothing they do sparks anything interesting. It goes without saying that their bedroom windows are speaking distance away. This is a lame plot device that totally makes everything convenient for lazy writers. Stephen Collins of 7th Heaven fame makes an appearance but it isn't likely one that will be remembered upon any career retrospective. Ali Larter also shows up to wade through material traveled by hundreds of others before her. This is all totally recycled crap that is likely to drive you crazy. Score: 3 / 10

I really enjoyed this movie. I saw it for the first time on Comedy Central earlier this year, and had to go buy the DVD. I'm not really into the teen movies, so I was surprised I enjoyed it so much. Breakfast Club wasn't bad, but it was a little too cut and dry for me. You had the freak, the geek, the bad boy, the jock, and the princess. But I didn't like how each character fit so perfectly into their little slot. Nobody had any layers or any characteristics of any of the other "groups". Sure they found ways to identify with each other based on outside occurrences, but no person is all jock or all geek or all freak. As for the modern teen movies, they're all too raunchy for me. They're less about the characters and more about stereotypical teens doing stereotypical teen things with no real substance. Just one disgusting joke after another. Drive Me Crazy, was a fun and fresh teen movie. It showed many different teen characters, but many of the characters had different facets. Very few of the characters were stereotypical in my opinion. De Vine was the sweet popular girl who used to be unpopular but got thin and became popular but is not so sure she likes popularity any better than unpopularity (how often do we see that girl in teen movies?). Nicole was the popular girl who was perky and smart, but also seemed to care about other people. Brad was the top jock, but he fell in love and had his heart broken (how often does that happen to the top jock in teen movies?). Ray is the freak who is really the coolest character in the movie. All of the acting was above average for a teen movie. There are some great lines in the movie. The two main characters had excellent chemistry. I found the storyline believable. But I fell in love with and married the boy next door myself. He was the rebel and the jock rolled into one, and I was the freak and the smart girl rolled into one. We were friends growing up, had some problems in our early teens and didn't speak for years, then got back together a little later on and have been happily married for 8 years. So the storyline isn't that hard for me to believe, and reminds me of my own teen years. That being said I do think the writers dropped the ball in a few places. The ending was pitiful. Having the parents hook up was repulsive to say the least. Then they walk off in the sunrise to the tree house. That was ridiculous. What seniors spend the morning after their prom night in their tree house? It's like the writers didn't know how to end the movie. I didn't really like how they just left us hanging as to how Chase felt about Nicole until he left Dilcey hanging and showed up at the dance. Did he have feelings for her when he went back to Dilcey, did he not and realized it the night of the dance? I didn't like how Ray was just left out at the dance once Chase showed up. So I do have some complaints with the way the movie ended, but that doesn't take away from the storyline up to that point, the enjoyable multi-faceted characters, the chemistry between the two major characters, and the excellent writing up to the final few scenes of the movie.

"The last guy she wants is the only one she needs." You just have to love Melissa & Adrian's chemistry. That's really what binds the whole movie. I mean the are so hot & heavy you have to love them. The soundtrack it amazing. The actors are excellent, and you just have to love the plot.Use to be best friend then one got "too cool for school." Then she gets in a bind he gets dumped & BAM they're there to help each other for selfish reasons of course. Then as they spend more time together pretending to be a couple they realize what they wanted was there all along. How heartwarming. <3 LOVE! Go & see this movie & it will restore your faith in men. But it may have you wondering about your best friend. ;-) Go rent the movie & you will then understand what that comment means. I highly approve!