Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

udit_sabharwal If you are in the need to watch a clichéd film I think this would top the list. In all honesty the major issue that I have with the film is the sheer predictability that it is overweight with. Drew Barrymore tries to fit into the role only barely managing to do so despite her attempts to fit in as the geeky turned cool kid. The supporting cast is decent with the occasional stars that outshine. The back story is stale and suffers from a lack of research on the writers parts. For a late Friday night watch the film managed to keep me awake with the occasional laughs here and there. There were a lot of comparisons drawn with Fast times at Ridgemont High and having to choose between the two I would have chosen the latter.The music is below average with the soundtrack not really adding to the storyline. By the end of the film you will be probably be betting that you could have written a better script than the dude who wrote the script for this film.Seven stars primarily because it's not a bad film. It's just not top of the league. Having watched all of John Hughes teen comedies I really don't think I can really give this film more than seven stars.

david-sarkies My friend said once that one can enjoy a movie yet it is not a good movie. This is an example of such a movie. I enjoyed this movie but I really do not consider it to be a good movie. Even then, it does have a few interesting points, but unfortunately these points are not drawn out more, but even then, they are sacrificed for a more important idea.Never Been Kissed is about a young lady that had a hell of a time at High School, and she is given a job to return to high school and learn about what high school kids are up to these days. As such we have a jump between the time when she was in high school previously and he current time at high school. The title of the movie describes her desire to find the perfect man. Of course we quickly work out who this man is, but unfortunately she is masquerading as a student so her options are limited.One of the ideas is the mask, and this is paralleled with Shakespeare's play As You Like It. The English teacher describes how when one is disguised as somebody else then they can do things that they would not normally do. This sinks into the woman, but it is never drawn out. She really does not act as she would in real life because there are more issues that she must face.Her goal is to get into the in crowd and she spends a lot of time trying to do this. Unfortunately it reeks of effort, and this is never drawn out. She tries hard to get people to accept her, but she always ends up failing, and in the end never is accepted for who she is because she is trying to be something that she is not. She does get into the in crowd but not through her own actions but through the help of her brother, who has always been in the in crowd.Finally this movie compares what it was like then to what it is like now. They show a lot of differences, including the searches at the entrance, and the fact that she was not a part of the in crowd and now she is, but the conclusion that the movie comes to is that all of these changes are superficial. Everything is really the same - the same quirky teachers, the same studley, and the same brains.I felt that this movie had some interesting ideas, but it fell down when trying to pick up on these ideas. There were a number of different ones which meant that other ideas had to fall behind when a more important, but less relevant one, came about. I guess it could have been better if it focused either on the mask, or the attempt to try and work one's way into the in crowd. The first would have had her behaving in a way that was not herself, and then realising it later when her true friends are hurt, or she tries so hard and fails, and then realises that her effort is going to waste so she resigns to being herself and succeeds.

Avid Climber Never Been Kissed plays on the angst of the teenage reject, the need to be cool, how it translate to adulthood, and how one can escape from it. High school is isolated from the real world, yet it has impact on your life beyond it. That's what's presented in this piece.The story has some interesting twists, and some nice take on some elements, but it doesn't bring anything new to the table. All the teens are played by mature adults, which kind of breaks the mold. That's the usual practice, however, in this case, it is pushed a bit too far. I guess it's to make Drew Barrymore's undercover character seems more believable.The whole movie is over done with clichés, and none so bad as Drew's persona. They even start her as a really unattractive person, which she's not.What makes the film any good is the fact that it's funny, and that you root for the main character who transform in a beautiful swan. Costume and makeup are responsible for the metamorphosis, all Barrymore had to do, was to tone down the awkwardness according to the scenario.It's entertaining, but don't expect too much beyond you're usual romance. The "lie" even rear its monstrous head.

Jackson Booth-Millard I had heard the title many times from various sources, and I had always known who the leading actress was, so when I got the opportunity to finally see it, I did, from director Raja Gosnell (Home Alone 3, Big Momma's House). Basically twenty five year old Josie Geller (Drew Barrymore) is a clever but at the same time simple and clumsy copy editor for the Chicago Sun Times, and she has ambitions to make it as a real reporter. She gets the chance to achieve this with her boss, the editor Rigfort (Pretty Woman director Garry Marshall) sending undercover in a high school to see what the modern teenagers are like. So at South Glen South High School she poses as a student, but with her simple ways she is instantly looked on as the accident prone brainy geek, and this does not do her any favours as in her real life Josie has never been kissed romantically. Her brother Rob (David Arquette) does his best to make her over, and soon enough he poses as a student in the high school himself, and the siblings both find love interests, in Josie's case she has feelings for her bachelor teacher Sam Coulson (Michael Vartan). The deadline for making her story is drawing closer, and the risk of blowing her cover is becoming even more large as her personal feelings towards the school inhabitants are getting in the way. In the end, even though her true identity is revealed, Josie does manage to write a very concise and informative story about her experiences acting like and being teenagers, and of course, with the help of her story, she manages to get her true love first kiss with Sam. Also starring The Wicker Man's Leelee Sobieski as Aldys, The Grinch's Molly Shannon as Anita, John C. Reilly as Gus, Marley Shelton as Kristin, Spider-Man's Octavia Spencer as Cynthia, Jessica Alba as Kirsten and James Franco as Jason. Barrymore does give a charming performance being constantly clumsy and trying her best to fit in with the crowd, Arquette gets his time as her odd but likable brother, and the other cast members are fine as well, the person pretending to be something else for some reason is not all that original, and the same goes for the love story element, but there are some likable and funny moments in this alright romantic comedy. Okay!