John Tucker Must Die
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Movie Reviews of John Tucker Must Die
Movie Review: Great Shape
Summary: 3 Stars
John Tucker Must Die was everything I thought it would be and there wasn't even one scratch on it. So this is another wonderful success for amazon.com!Movie Review: A mixed bag of a movie
Summary: 2 Stars
After seeing so many previews of this movie on other DVDs, I decided to give it a try. Touted as being "as cool as Mean Girls," the movie is about man-about-town John Tucker and what happens when three of the most influential girls in school (who also happen to each be his "secret girlfriend") decide to take John down a peg or two. Using new girl Kate to break his heart, Kate gets caught up in the social whirlwind of her new high school as she goes from anonymous to the it girl.
The premise is fun and if you don't think about the movie too hard, there are a lot of funny moments. Many of the girls' plots revolve around embarrassing John to make him lose credibility in front of his basketball teammates and, ultimately, the entire school. But as their revenge plots escalate in wackiness, John's cool factor keeps going up.
However, the writers introduce a lot of loose ends that they never wrap up by the end of the movie. They also ask the viewers to stretch their imaginations way too far.
As an example - an early revenge plot involves switching John's health supplement with estrogen powder. After liberal doses, John starts acting like, well, a woman with PMS. I highly doubt that the powder would have an effect that quickly and make you lash out emotionally.
But the place where the writers dropped the ball revolves around Kate's relationships with her mother and with the "other Tucker," John's brother Scott. Kate and her mother barely talk in the movie (just one or two heart-to-hearts that are very superficial), so the changes in Kate's mother's behavior seem very abrupt. And Scott is introduced early in the movie, and you expect something to develop... and then they just put his character on hold while Kate "pursues" John.
I think the movie would have been stronger if Kate and Scott's relationship had developed more, so when Kate comes clean, it's not completely about her and her lies, but also because she would rather have a real relationship with a better man.
At least in "Mean Girls" the Plastics all learn something and grow from the experience. By movie's end, it doesn't seem that any of the characters from "John Tucker Must Die" have learned anything.
Recommended as a rental on a rainy day, if you can't find anything better on the shelf.
Movie Review: We've seen this before, and we've seen it done better
Summary: 2 Stars
In the 80s, it was (apparently) acceptable to introduce characters and plots without well thought out arcs. Nothing connected. In the 80s, for some odd reason, we enjoyed this. It was fun. It was, at times, funny.
Now, 20 years later, it's not so funny. It's banal. Not tried and true; rather, tired, true, and overcooked.
Here are some things that could not possibly have happened:
1. Brittany Snow (Kate Spencer) as an unappealing girl/young women. Please. I don't care how socially retarded she may have been, she's a beautiful girl from head to toe. If I were in high school with her, I'd crush on her.
2. The overblown athletic acrobatics. John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe) is 5'11". He has as much chance of dunking in the fashion he did as Jupiter does of being the home of Superman. Unless he's Spud Webb. And nobody but Spud is Spud Webb. He was also a point guard. Point guards don't play that way.
3. John Tucker doing a 100% turnabout from being a lying cad who had (at least) three girlfriends at a time to a guy who, while still having a few girls at a time, is honest about it. That's an epiphany that makes no sense whatsoever. I'd sooner believe in Hitler finding the "path of Gandhi" than that.
4. Not only the ridiculous semi-love-interest between Kate and Scott Tucker (the "the other Tucker"), but the fact that there *was* another Tucker. ***Here's the thing about telling a story - any kind of story. If it doesn't make sense, nobody is going to buy it.*** It made no sense, served no purpose, for John Tucker to have a brother - in this story. There was absolutely ZERO development done on his character with relation to John. As such, his character was reduced to...well...the nerd who wins in the end.
a. And there we are back to the 80s.
In essence, this was a film about a girl who started to fall in love with the guy she started out hating, and ended realizing he wasn't for her. And about a guy who was a lying cad to everyone, found the girl he wanted, who was "the one" amongst dozens, had his heart broken, and went back to being a cad.
In essence, this was cotton candy. At best. It was worth a few good laughs, but like cotton candy, too much leaves you with a stomachache.
Movie Review: Please enter a title for your review
Summary: 2 Stars
Dumbest moral teen movie ever. Your average Saved By The Bell episode plays out more believably. Was there any discretion in choosing writers at all? Proof that any idiot with an english degree can work in hollywood. I'm not taking this movie any more seriously than it took itself, it's just when it goes for making an actual point and is nothing but incoherent stupidity there's no fun to be had. There's one unconventional idea I can credit this film with, when John popularizes women's thong underwear with the boys at school after he gets tricked into wearing one and embarassed. The ending, I mean I saw it coming a mile away, the girl's going to end up liking John, I was interested to see how they'd pull it off though, and it seems like they just didn't at all. Apparently the girl was just as bad as John because she was manipulating him, and that makes everyone even. There wasn't much wrong with the basic plot outline beyond that, watching a teen/romantic comedy you accept that templates will be used, the detail just needed to be filled in by a competent writer who could give the plot points more context and add more comedy. With some minor script adjustments this movie could have gone from a 4/10 to an 8/10.Movie Review: John Tucker lives???
Summary: 2 Stars
Okay the person that puts this movie in the same category as "Bring it on", "Clueless", "Mean Girls" and, especially the superior "Heathers".. is painting a false picture of what this movie is.. I'm sorry but, "John Tucker Must Die" is no where close to being as sharp or clever as these other mentioned films. These other films have a balance that allows more adults to enjoy them as well as the intended target of younger teenagers. "JTMD" appeals more to that teen crowd and has older viewers wondering if this has anything new to offer.. and wonder is all I did. This film tries taking a lot of plot lines and ideas from other teen films and brings them all together.. the results are one BIG mess. 2.5 stars is all I can give.. the other films mentioned above are the ticket. "Heathers" = 5 stars. "Mean Girls" = 4 stars. "Bring it on" = 4 stars. "Clueless" 4.5 stars. All four of these movies have something that "John Tucker Must Die" doesn't have..