Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Fluke_Skywalker Plot; The lives and loves of various teens intersect at a party on the night of their high school graduation.Part of the late 90s teen comedy resurgence, Can't Hardly Wait boasts an absolutely jam-packed cast of "before they were famous" faces. Nearly every scene had me going "He/she is in this too?". It was fun to see them here at the dawn of their respective careers with almost no obvious pretense on display. The film itself is riddled with the genre's many time tested (or worn, depending on your point of view) clichés, and the characters and their respective stories are wafer thin--even for a teen comedy--but despite this there's zip to its pacing and an enlivening charm from its cast that lifts the material. If you like the genre, if you have a nostalgia for that late 90s pop fizz era, then you'll probably enjoy this one.

preppy-3 This mostly takes place at a huge party thrown for a bunch of kids after they graduate from high school. The movie focuses on a few of them. Amanda (Jennifer Love-Hewitt) and Mike (Peter Facinelli) have been together since 9th grade but break up just before graduation. This gives nice guy Preston (Ethan Embry) a shot at her--but he's going away the next day. He also has a perpetually depressed friend Denise (Lauren Ambrose). Then there's William (Charlie Korsmo) a super nerd who has always been tormented by Mike--and plans to take his revenge at the party. Then there's Ken (Seth Green) a white boy who likes to pretend he's black.This got good reviews when it came out and it's easy to see why. It's a surprisingly fun teen movie. It's colorful, has a great soundtrack and a very fun and witty script. There's also good acting by the entire cast and it's fun to see what some of these people went on to do. Love-Hewitt, Facinelli and Embry are still going strong. Also there's an uncredited appearance by Jenna Elfman. A fun, enjoyable teen movie.

VanPyree Just like all the others, this is a high-school movie about one last party of sorts before college. A few clichéd characters, some pre-frat-boys doing what frat boys do, geeks geeking around, some school-spirit girl trying to get folks to sign her yearbook, outsiders doing their own thing and it's mostly love stories.This was a pretty common genre back in the day and it was near peak saturation. I rewatched this film with a clean palette, but it's just not that good. It's not that bad either, but there are very few redeeming qualities about it, other than perhaps a "before they were famous" look-back through this yearbook of a movie. You also get to see peak Jennifer Love Hewitt at the peak of her fame.There's nothing interesting about the story that hasn't been said and done before. There's no deeper meaning to the film, no subtleties, no mysteries, no reason to see it twice, maybe not even worth watching once or paying attention while watching. There's no interesting story-telling technique, no camera tricks or cinematography. The music is just a playlist of whatever was popular back then, Third Eye Blind, White Zombie, Creed among others. It's only interesting as a snapshot of the late 90's. It captured the spirit of the 90's, the youth culture, the movie culture, the fashion and the language. Other than that, this is a 6/10 film at best.

LJStephens1980 this came out in September '98, (Australia) I graduated High School in October '98, and can relate to everything that is in this film. Whilst not in the same categories as Shawshank Redemption, or Casablanca, this is still for its genre a remarkable film. The cast in one word: perfect. Jenniffer Love-Hewitt obviously didn't have to act here... her Amanda is both likable, yet god! she doesn't know that prince charming aka: Preston Myers (Ethan (Embry) has pined for her, for four years! Man! and if that weren't enough there are a load of real interesting sub-plot's in this film. Including the legendary Seth Green as a white homeboy, Kenny Fisher, who think's he black. He mainly interacts with another great actress, Lauren Ambrose, (who was also in Six-Feet Under, and a few others from this film). who's character Denise Fleming, doesn't want to be at the party at all. Without giving away, how she and Kenny (Seth Green) end up together, confronting how, and why there are no longer friends it's hilarious.Another two interesting sub-plot's are the band: Love-burger, and the actions of the class nerd: William Lichter, are so goddamn funny!For its genre, this is hard to top, other films, try but without much success. If you haven't seen it, then go get it. As for what happens to the major characters, the answer is simple: Fate, its brilliant and beautiful.