I Love You, Beth Cooper

For my second review on filmaster, I am reviewing the movie "I Love You, Beth Cooper," starring Hayden Panettiere, Paul Rust, and Jack Carpenter. I remember looking at the previews of the movie a couple years ago and thinking to myself that it looks like the making of a okay movie. Hayden Panettiere and Lauren London is in it and Chris Columbus is the director, so how bad can it be. It also made me think that this could be your typical boy meets girls high school movie that tries to be way too funny. Then I heard there was a book out on it. When I found that out, I talk to some people that I know, that read the book, and they gave me a different outlook on the movie. They made me feel like it shouldn't be your typical "boy meets girl" high school movie.

With that said I thought it was an okay movie. The movie is suppose to be about a valedictorian(played by Paul Rust) that is in love with a cheerleader.(played by Hayden Panettiere) I honestly laughed more than I thought I would.(even though I'm not a person that's hard to make laugh) I felt as though Hayden Panettiere might have been a little too popular for this role. She gave Coverman sort of a wild day, but I'm under the impression that it should have and could have been wilder. I think Columbus might have done too many flashbacks of their lives in this movie. Some of them I felt like were not needed. Like when Dr. Gleason (played by Andrea Savage) had her flashback. I just think that could have been left out of the movie and thrown into the "deleted scenes" pile. I also kind of thought that Beth Cooper was suppose to be the main character in the movie. Too often it felt like Dennis Coverman and Rich Munsch were the stars of the show and the two second kiss to get the beer...come on Coverman didn't have to act like that. It was not that serious. There were also times were Kevin and his boys might have came into the movie too often. Them coming out of nowhere during the shower scene was a little much. Honestly, the shower scene kind of wasn't really needed.

What I thought was good about the movie was Paul Rust and Jack Carpenter's acting. I thought that Jack was funny and he had great timing, plus his facial expressions were on point when it came to his part of the comedy. Paul Rust also did a good job at being a nerd. Somebody that is too cool of a person could have easily messed that up. I thought that most of his movements and actions were on point and he did a great job. I feel as though Paul Rust and Jack Carpenter are going to be some good actors for the future. The soundtrack throughout the movie didn't sound bad either. For some reason, with these kinds of movies, musicians do a good job of coming up with songs that fit these kinds of movies. All in all, it's not the worst movie I have seen. I'm giving this movie a 6 out of 10.