Perfect cast and a good story

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

This was by no means terrible, but I was underwhelmed by it. I think the main flaw is that the crude jokes were really annoying. We didn't need to have all this stuff about guy's butts being shown and women accidentally losing their bras. That really did weigh it down. Also, some of these characters (especially the leader teacher) can be pretty annoying. With all that being said, it certainly had its good points. I'll give it credit for having a story about the actual play in the actual movie that's reenacting the actual play. That was pretty interesting.We even get this nice "September" dance number at the very end. Still, the bad definitely outweighed the good. I liked how I could recognize Kirsten Dunst. With me watching more and more movies all the time, I can recognize more actors and actresses. I even found the main character to be pretty likable. I guess it was too short. When you make a Shakespeare adaptation, it should probably be more epic. I guess it's mostly harmless. I realize that I'm not into teen movies at all. **

This movie gets lost in the mix of good teen comedies made around the time because it didn't have a huge popularity and there's a total disconnect from attempting to appease the audience with a clear, presentable story or setting up the story with story points and story lines and whatnot and it's somewhat boring, BUUUUUUTTTTT the good thing is because of that previous sentence, Get Over It is a really nice flick to get lost in for some time with funny and absorbing characters without your standard introductions. The introduction scene of 'Love Will Keep Us Together' done by Vitamin C and some cool extras is classy. Ben Foster is really talented and acts easier then most, and he turns up the intensity so naturally better than most, BUUUUUTTTTTTTT, the shame is he takes it too far often and he acts strangely like he's on permanent intense mode like he's a super actor or something but he needs to tone down the nerves a little bit. I would not mention this sexy little bikini scene in Get Over It if not for the fact that Kirsten Dunst and Mila Kunis are incredibly hot together. I love Kirsten. Mila too. Sisqo too. Martin Short is funny. I'm sure he knows that. I love Martin Short. Colin Hanks is good. Swoosie Kurtz and Ed Begley Jr. are both nice to see. Get Over It has a nice easy vibe with good writing that makes it a favorite of many.

Get Over It (2001): Dir: Tommy O'Haver / Cast: Ben Foster, Kirsten Dunst, Melissa Sagemiller, Shane West, Martin Short: Opens with Ben Foster dumped by his girlfriend and the hilarity that follows as the song and dance that emerges behind him with dancer popping into frame. Title suggests carrying on with life after a crisis. Ben Foster tries to win back his girlfriend from a sleazy hunk so he joins the Shakespearian play of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Kirsten Dunst assists him. Director Tommy O'Haver does a fine job at combining reality with Shakespearian dream sequences. Despite its formula structure its climax is quite funny. Foster is hilarious as the love lost teenager bent on venturing into the realms of Shakespeare to prove himself but we know how this concludes. Fetching Dunst is well cast as his eventual love. She is his best friend's sister and she agrees to assist him with the play. Melissa Sagemiller plays Foster's ex-girlfriend who embarks upon the play but will see the error of her ways. Shane West steals scenes as the new boyfriend who will obviously cause division between Foster and Sagemiller but his climatic scene during the play is most amusing. Martin Short brings another level of hilarity as a drama teacher who struggles to pull this all together. Relating Shakespeare and modern romance allow for an intriguing comedy. Score: 8 / 10

I caught this on TV again last night and I was reminded of just how much fun it was to watch this movie. In the age where teen slapstick comedies are a pound for a dozen, Hollywood occasionally manages to get it just right and produce something with heart, like this one. The story is loosely based around The Bard's perhaps most popular comedy in that it also utilises a love square.Sure, the film is never going to win an Academy Award any time soon, but really, that's not what you're watching this film for, is it? It's light and fluffy, perfect for a night in with some friends and you can all get some laughs out of it. The casting was perfect; right down to Shane West's laughably abysmal accent. Ben Foster is definitely nerdy enough to play the "hapless loser" or so Berke calls himself, and you can't help but feel sorry for him as he tries so hard at every turn to win back his ex-girlfriend in vain. But sometimes you just want to scream at him for not seeing what's right in front of him: Kelly, played by the gorgeous Kirsten Dunst, the quintessential girl next door. However, the star of the show here is actually Martin Short, who manages to steal every scene he's in as a maniacal, completely OTT drama director. His lines are pure gold and he manages to accompany that with a crazed performance – "Pluck! You've got to PLUCK it!" What sets this film apart from all the rest is that it's a musical that works. The actual production at the end was fantastic, had some great energetic, toe-tapping numbers and O'Haver did a marvellous job directing it. This is exactly what High School Musical tried to be and failed. It's a shame that some of the production songs aren't on the OST because if carried out in full, I think they're good enough to fit onto an album in their own right. I know I would love to watch the final production in its entirety. Kirsten Dunst really surprised me with how good of a singer she is.So watch it, laugh out loud, and don't take it too seriously. It sure didn't.