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Never Been Kissed
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Michael Vartan,
Molly Shannon
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| MPAA Rated: |
PG-13 |
| Released By: |
Fox 2000
Pictures
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| Web Site: |
foxmovies.../neverbeenkissed/
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| Kiddie Movie: |
Nah - it's about high school - don't give them
any ideas early.
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| Date Movie: |
She might like it.
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| Gratuitous Sex: |
Some hinted high school sex.
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| Gratuitous
Violence: |
Nah.
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| Action: |
Nah.
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| Laughs: |
A few.
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| Memorable
Scene: |
None.
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| Memorable
Quote: |
None.
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| Directed By: |
Raja Gosnell
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| Produced By: |
Sandy Isaac, Nancy Juvonen
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Never Been Kissed
A Movie Review |
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You know, after seeing "Never Been
Kissed" I still don't know if I like it or not. It wasn't
bad, and it wasn't great, and I don't know if more could
have been done with it or not, so I guess I'll just say it
was okay.
The story is built around Josie, played by Drew
Barrymore, who is a copy editor at a Chicago newspaper. She
wants to be an investigative journalist rather than an
editor, and even though she keeps coming up with good story
ideas, they get shoveled off to other writers so Josie just
has to keep correcting other people's work. Then one day the
big boss decides he wants a story about high school and then
decides to send Josie as the undercover student. 25 year old
Josie is now a high school senior.
So Josie, who, the first time around, hated her high
school experience is sent back, and she looks at it as her
chance to not be "Josie Grossy" anymore. But she is still
herself, ends up with the "nerd" crowd and no story instead
of the "in" crowd with the drugs, drinking, and debauchery.
Her editor isn't pleased, and it takes her brother going
back to high school to help her save her job. Well, sort of,
because now Josie doesn't want to do the story on the
teacher trying to get in the pants of the high school
student that her editor wants because, well, she's the
"student" whose pants the teacher is trying to get in, and
yea, she is in love with the teacher.
I guess my indifference about the movie comes in the fact
that there really isn't a story in trying to go undercover
in a high school because things don't really change that
much, except maybe for the metal detectors, and Josie even
says this in her final article on the subject. Had the movie
not been a romantic comedy I think it could have better
shown some new problems and scandals in high schools today,
but keeping things fluffy limited the movie to what everyone
already knows about kids in high school. Sure, there was the
love story aspect of the movie, and the fact that Josie has
never been kissed (Can you guess the ending? I thought you
could..) plays throughout, but the going back to high school
thing didn't work for me.
There were some laughs, and I just about always like Drew
Barrymore, but the movie just didn't seem to use the "going
back to high school" story line as well as it could have.
So, it's 2 stars out of 5 for "Never Been Kissed." I
still don't know why.
That's it for this one, I'm The Dude on the Right!!
L8R!! |
