10 Things I Hate About You
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Movie Reviews of 10 Things I Hate About You
Movie Review: A very good teen romance movie
Summary: 4 Stars
I like this movie and have seen it several times. Like another reviewer, I would compare it to "She's All That" which I have also seen. This movie is a half star better than "She's All That".
Kat and Bianca live with their father, an OB/GYN, whose wife left him. He is raising his daughters alone. He's very caring father, though very strick both because of his profession and his abandonment by his wife.
Bianca, who is younger than Kat and a certified flirt, is not allowed by her father to date unless Kat is dating. But Kat refuses to date anyone. She is cynical and unhappy though it is obvious that she is very intelligent (much more so than Bianca). She's very unpopular at school; even her English teacher doesn't like her. Something has happened to Kat to make her cynical and bitter, but what? We find out much later in the film.
Cameron, who has been tutoring Bianca in French, is infatuated with Bianca and wants to date her. He and his friend Michael (a geeky kind of guy) devise a scheme to find a date for Kat. No one will accept their proposal except Patrick who is the most unpopular tough-guy/loner at the high school (he lights his cigarettes with a blow torch in one scene). The school rumor is that Patrick was in prison at one time. Though frightened of Patrick, they approach him and convince Patrick to work on getting a date with Kat by tricking Joey, an egotistical guy with plenty of money who also wants to date Bianca, into bribing Patrick.
It takes Patrick quite a while to make it through the wall Kat has thrown up to keep everyone at arms length. Kat hates Patrick at first but his persistence pays off.
The scenes between Patrick and Kat, as their relationship develops, are charming. My favorite scenes are the book store scene, Patrick's tenderness to Kat after she gets herself drunk at a party, the paint ball scene, the music store scene, and most especially the scene where Patrick sings to Kat from the bleachers while she is in gym class playing soccer.
Why did I give this movie 4 stars if I liked it so much? Because this movie is an very loose adaptation based on Shakespeare's play "The Taming of the Shrew". In comparison with "Clueless", another teen romance movie which is a loose adaptation of Jane Austen's "Emma", this movie falls just short of the perfection of "Clueless". If "Clueless" is a 5 star movie, then this one must be a 4 star movie.
Movie Review: Who knocked up your sister?
Summary: 5 Stars
Regardless of whether 10 Things I Hate About You (from here on out referred to as 10 Things...)is based on a Shakespeare work or not, the end result has stayed relevent after all this time.
10 Things... is the only teen movie I can think of that falls into every possible cliche situation but somehow comes out on top every time. From Patrick singing across the football field to Kat to Bianca ditching the pretty-boy Joey for the newbie, unpopular, Cameron, for some reason it all works perfectly. I'm convinced the reason this film is so good and is able to carry such a worn plot is because of the cast. Julia Styles and Heath Ledger are really convincing as a couple and, oddly enough, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larisa Oleynik also seem to work wonderfully together.
The plot revolves around five characters. Basically, Cameron and his school-showing guide/friend concieve this idea to get a rich guy named Joey to pay Patrick to date Kat, so that Cameron can date Kat's younger sister, Bianca. Cliches and chaos ensues!
10 Things... is your average boy gets girl/boy loses girl/boy gets girl back movie, times two since there's two relationships blossoming. If you like those types of movies, 10 Things... is sure to please. For others, the comedy throughout makes all the 'chick flick' parts worth it. Not to mention the quote-ability that this movie's got. Just one gripe though, what's with skimping on the special features?! Release a special edition already!
Movie Review: 10 Reasons to Watch This Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
1) Lots of wit and humor, especially in the scenes with Kat and Bianca's father.
2) Very good music! There are new versions of songs that you'll be familiar with and songs that you have never heard before, so be sure to check out the soundtrack as well.
3) Revenge is sweet! You know it is...
4) Everyone gets what's coming to them, and a lot of fun is had along the way.
5) Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larisa Oleynik are very cute when they're in scenes together - they play Cameron and Bianca.
6) It's funny to see just how much of a jack@$$ the character Joey can be - honestly, are there actually guys like him out there?
7) The movie has a very cute scene with PAINTBALL in it...yes, paintball.
8) Secretly, there are a lot of us out there who wish we had the guts to be like Kat.
9) It's one of the better adaptations of Shakespeare's works. They manage to work a lot of Shakespeare into the movie without making it cheesy or weird.
10) Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger are so hot - they light up the screen with their chemistry and make it so much fun to watch...it's so sexy and fun.
Movie Review: Shrew it is Not
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a well produced teenage-formula film, and for the genre, particulaly entertaining for young adults because it touches on issues such as relationships, the frustrations of young adolescence with great looking actors and a great soundtrack.
The screenwriter's suggest that the movie is a modern rendition of "The Taming of the Shrew", a Shakespearean comedy, a story about the taming of a bad tempered "in your face" young woman into submission.
As far as the film's connections to Shakespear's play, there are few.
Watching the film again, there are only a small number of connections and they are vague at best; connections one can count on one hand.
We have a bad tempered young woman and a suitor with a goal. There is a bet, something about "taming" the Shrew, but really, that's about it.
The theme of the film is about attaining "true love", against seemingly unbeatable odds. However, Shakespear's play is about "taming" a woman, a nasty shrew, bending Katharine to Petruchio's will! Altogether entirely different themes.
In the original play, Petruchio sees Katharine as a challenge, and once given her hand in marriage, abuses her into submission through starvation and intimidation.
At the play's end, there is a "bet" between the men on whose wife is the most obedient.
Petruchio wins the bet because he has essentially bullied Katherine into an obedient, submissive wife.
All said and done, this film is an entertaining teenage collection of clich?s' which really is designed to hold the attention of a young audience.
Ten Things...is musically a good buzz, most the actors performing tongue and cheek with a typical, feel-good Hollywood ending.
My only complaint, really, is the alleged connections to the 16th century play...because there is no substantial comparison...
For a teenage movie, however, one of the better one's.
Movie Review: "How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways."
Summary: 4 Stars
I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. "Ten Things I Hate About You" is VERY LOOSELY based on William Shakespeare's comedic masterpiece, "The Taming of the Shrew." The film is set in a modern day high school. Kat (Julia Stiles) is an angry teenage girl who seems to loathe all men. Her younger sister Bianca (Larisa Oleynik) is a popular girl who can't wait to immerse herself in the dating scene. Unfortunately for Bianca, her overprotective father (Larry Miller) is incredibly paranoid and doesn't want to see either of his daughters come within 50 feet of a member of the opposite sex. In order to pacify Bianca's constant complaints, her father finally concedes that he'll lift the dating ban as soon as man-hater Kat shoes an interest in boys, which is unlikely to happen in the near future. Once Bianca's potential beau (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) finds out about this, he hires a mysterious classmate, Patrick (Heath Ledger), to feign an interest in Kat and loosen her up, thereby freeing up Bianca to date. At first Patrick is happy to oblige, but he is stunned when he begins to develop feelings for Kat, who isn't always as cold and collected as she appears to be.
This movie is very entertaining. As a big "Taming of the Shrew" fan, I really enjoyed the occasional snippets of Shakespearean dialogue. This film does an excellent job of reinventing Shakespeare in a very modern way. Also, the young cast is talented and fun to watch. Stiles and Ledger have good chemistry together and make a very cute onscreen couple. Overall, I was very impressed!