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Love Don't Cost a Thing [VHS]

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4 star:		(14)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

You now the scenario; boy meets girl, girl is out of boys league BUT boy has something that girl wants so she takes what she wants and gives him what he wants only to find out that he USED to be everything she ever wanted. This same concept has been used and abused for years. In fact, this very film is a remake. That said; this movie has some serious charm, which really works to its benefit. Not that I'm a huge fan of Mr. Mariah Carey, but he has some nice comedic timing, and his faux swag (I say faux only because he is far more believable as a nerd) is entertaining. Christina Milian is a cutey, and she really comes through as the popular girl lost in a sea of popularity she kind of resents. The message presented, about being yourself and not formulating to the molds of teenage society, is a nice one (albeit an overused and underdeveloped one), and the bouncy infectious teenage quality to the film is nothing short of enjoyable. I kind of loathe Steve Harvey, so his mug gracing the screen was a turn-off, and his ridiculous attempt at emulating Eugene Levy's iconic `American Pie' father role was a total misfire; but you have to expect a film like this to have its downs to balance out the ups. There is absolutely NOTHING new here but overall it's a fun film and if you are looking for this breed of rom-com you could do far worse.

The best way to describe this movie is cute. Alvin is a part-time pool cleaner who can fix cars and is not a part of the in crowd. The nerd has a serious crush on Paris (recording artist Christina Millian) but knows he has no chance to get with the popular girl. Not to mention Paris is dating NBA player Drew, despite the fact that he is playing her by cheating on her and claiming he is single on national TV. Alvin is working on a project that can help him get a scholarship. Paris crashes her Moms Escalade. To fix the damage will cost $1,500. Alvin has the money and he offers to pay for the parts needed if she will be his girlfriend to help him get popular.

Alvin's father (Steve Harvey) is stuck in the 70's. He loved himself some Al Green, and the plastic covered furniture brought back some memories!!! I never heard of a school having a popular hallway before. That was very unusual to me.

Paris helps Alvin change his image buy changing his hair and helping him pick out new clothing. "Urkel has gone gangster", when his younger sister seems him walk into the house all transformed.

Alvin is so into his new popular friends his old buddies feel left out and turn away from him. Alvin enjoys being popular but to Paris being popular is nothing but work. Paris finds herself liking Alving to her surprise. She can talk to him, and he understands her wanting to have a "normal life" and he finds the fact that she can write poetry and play guitar interesting while her friends feel she should focus on eventually marrying her rich NBA playa boyfriend.

Turns out popularity comes with a price. As different as Paris and Alvin were, turned out they were the same. Trying to be something they were not. You get that much from watching the film.

My one problem with the movie was the scene where father does the right of passage with the condoms. Telling Alvin his main goal should be scratching the kitty kat really annoyed me. On one hand I was glad he had the safe sex talk, but we all know if the tables had been turned and his daughter was about to go on a date he would have been installing "kitty kat" devices to keep the boys away!!!! He did not need to be telling his son about motions in the ocean!!!

Aside of that I did enjoy the film. The nerdy guy gets the popular girl. It's worth a watch.

This is a modern day remake of "Can't Buy Me Love".Obviously you shouldn't go in expecting Oscar caliber performances...but I can say that the movie wasn't that bad! It had some moments,every scene Steve Harvey was in,was hilarious! If you are of the younger crowd you will enjoy the movie,just kick back and relax,take it for what it is...a funny,highschool flick.The soundtrack for the film was pretty good as well if you are into hip hip.

Love may not cost a thing, but this movie does and its not worth it. The male character goes from erkel to puff doody overnight and is never likeable. Why the hot chick goes for him after all the stupid stuff he pulls is beyond comprehension. Stereotypes abound in this movie and none of them add anything to the humorless wreck. At the end I felt sorry for the nice selfless cheerleader (one non-stereotype anyway) who ends up with the goofy jerk in the end.

If you seen the original Cant buy me love then you should know what to expect.

Nick Cannon plays as Alvin whos a outsider and wants to become populuar with the rest of the cool kids

Christina Milian who plays Paris is the hottest girl at the school,rich,sexy,hot man im about to break a sweat!!She crash her mom car and Alvin pays for the cost but in one condition that she pretends to be his girl for 2 weeks.

Overal the movie is very good I like it alot and it teaches you alot especially being yourself.Overal just buy it you wont be disapointted.

This film gets a mixed review at best from me. I check out films like this with my goddaughter who is 11. I loved Drumline and thought Cannon was pretty good in it. I believe he does some cable stuff on TV and I thought that I would be okay taking an 11 year old to this movie.

The film has a good message and predictably marches along its path. Nick Cannon's transformation is kind of abrupt. From Poolboy to trendsetter the events that transformed him seemed kind of abrupt. The big deal for me was there was an ongoing condom theme in the flick that caught me off guard. I don't think it was in the promos and I felt somewhat misled. I would not advise any parents to let their young kids watch this movie unless kids understand what condoms are and I wouldn't watch this with your kids unless you are prepared to have that discussion.

I have mixed feelings about that being a major joke in a PG-13 movie. On the one hand, I think adult themes should go under the radar and not be easily understood by kids or have questionable language. On the other hand there are far too many PG-13 movies that have borderline explicit sexuality without addressing safe sex. I don't know whether I should be thankful to this movie for catalyzing that discussion or angry at it for sneaking it under the radar.

Outside of that, I was mildly entertained in a predictable flick. The themes were positive and there are good messages about friendship and the dangers of popularity for teenagers.

I believe there are better urban flicks out there for the 9-13 age bracket and I'll be on the lookout for them. This probably a good flick for teenagers in high school.

2.5 stars
--SD

You'll actually wish you were being subjected to the original, which at least was a mildly charming film with some genuine performances -- in it's day. The movie almost plays like an extended infomercial for all things Puffy. Often rowdy and uproarious, the film also has a suprising depth and subtext. The cast is uniformly high spirited and attractive, and Ms.Beyer's direction, apart from a few over-weighted Wellesian camera angles, is functional. I would not recommend seeing this movie.

These days, the name of the game in making movies is to either milk the jokes, to give the people what they want and only what the small amount wants or just handing them a mirror (art imitating life imitating art), and to follow the same rules your mom gave you about your food as a child: you can't get the goods until you finish what is in front of you. That is what Holly Would Not is doing for us: the very last one. Not only are they handing us a pointless remake, but they are doing an Afro-American Version that kind of makes it a lot worse than the original.

There will always be the geek who never gets the girl in a high school because, well, he is a geek and she is a self-proclaimed "beauty". (Stuff like that is the reason I never wanted to go to High School in the first place.) You can see that anywhere and it is further nauseating to see that a geek is acting as obnoxious as the "beauty" as days roll by. (Notice that the geek doesn't look half bad. All he has is an nfro and a unibrow. The beauty wears a lipgloss and clothes from a magazine and music videos.)

This movie is not trying to push the fact that it is cool to be obnoxious and rude to people who just want friends and just want you to know their name, but that is exactly what it seems like.

Pretend you were a child right now. The movie is full of undercooked broocoli and chitlins served night after night (scene after scene). Be careful if you do watch this movie. Chances are you will get a negative believe that black people are the biggest animals, Even out of BET. This movie is only good to learn some values and to wonder how good it really is to living under another's shadow.

You know Hollywood?s hard up for material when it starts blowing the dust off movies from as recent as the 1980?s to rehash and remake (films that weren?t any good to begin with, I might add). ?Love Don?t Cost a Thing? is a pointless update of ?Can?t Buy Me Love,? the tale of a high school nerd who hires the hottest babe on campus to pretend to be his girlfriend. His hope is that, through his association with her, he will gain entree into the ?cool? crowd at school.

The stereotypes of adolescents that the film presents weren?t fresh twenty years ago and they?re even less so today. The story is utterly hackneyed and predictable what with Alvin being first an object of scorn, then - after some utterly unconvincing ghetto-?Pygmalion? makeover scenes - finding acceptance in the upper echelon of with-it kids, while at the same time turning his back on and rejecting the fellow nerds who used to be his friends. True to the formula, Alvin eventually learns a lesson or two about what being true to oneself really means.

There are virtually no funny moments in the film and the scenes between Alvin and his sex-obsessed dad begin to border on the creepy. ?Love Don?t Cost a Thing? may seem clever and fresh to audiences not old enough to have seen many movies, let alone the original on which this film is based. The rest of us with somewhat longer memories will gladly take a pass. What next? A remake of ?Howard the Duck??

This film is so overly contrived that it is painful. Not even worth a rent.