John Tucker Must Die
20th Century Fox
Starring; Jesse Metcalfe, Brittany Snow, Ashanti

What the Girlfriend says:

     Finally, we are reviewing a girly movie! This movie is another teen comedy, but it is one of the better ones.

     Brittney Snow stars as Kate - a shy, young and naive girl who joins a new high school. She is quickly introduced to John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe) who is the athletic, hot, cocky kind of guy. John is known for his bad reputation with women since he lies to and cheats on all of them.

     Kate, along with three of John’s ex girlfriends, decides to teach John a lesson. They don’t actually kill him, although that would have made this movie even funnier. Instead, they plan a bunch of schemes to destroy him. Unfortunately, Kate falls head over heals for John in the process.

     If you are looking for a comedy that won’t make you think, this one is definitely a winner. It has quite a few funny moments and does a great job of crushing men who believe they are all that.

     I give it three red thongs out of five.

What the Boyfriend Says:

     Oh great, we’re reviewing a girly movie. I swear the only thing girly movies do for this world is give Brittany Murphy work. And that isn’t a positive!

     So John Tucker Must Die. What can I say about John Tucker Must Die? Predictable, shallow, confusing, and forgettable. Wow, that was easier than I thought.

     The whole conflict comes from John Tucker dating multiple women at a time and each one finds out about it. After some cat fighting they decide to get even with him. Each time they try they just make him more popular.

     I’d like to point out that I favour John Tucker over all the women in this movie as a sympathetic protagonist. Tucker’s brother in the film points out near the end that nearly all the women in the school know about his reputation as a womanizer yet they all still come crawling for him. So what is the movie telling me? Tucker hasn’t done anything wrong, it is the women of the film who have let themselves down.

     So the film closes, everyone likes Tucker again, the girl who was shy and unpopular is now, well, the opposite and we’ve filled the quota of stereotyped sassy black women and dumb cheerleaders.

     1 “dear God, make it stop!” out of 5