Sadly Over-hyped

Good start, but then it gets ruined

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

This is not some Hollywood blockbuster. What this is, is a movie with decent acting, interesting characters and good character development. I've watched the movie for the fourth time in a year now, which has given me some time to think about it. Yes, those fake "friends" of the lead character are somewhat cringy and the ending about them is unnecessary. But that's the only negative aspect. For the rest of the movie you have a naive but smart girl, and a good guy in a bad world. By the end she let's go of her naivety and Paul gives up on trying to fit in and instead takes a moral stand. This quote from the movie sums it up well:"It feels like this whole city is one big orgy and if you feel anything for anyone you are a chump". The chemistry is good and full of heart. It's a good movie to watch if you just want something decent with a friend.

Amy Heckerling doesn't quite know what kind of audience she is trying to engage. If she's trying to show high school kids the problems and unexpected strife of college life in a metropolis, then she should have shown that world in a more focused way. If she's trying to be funny and quirky for the older subset than her characters should have been better written and less dickish. Besides being clinically underwritten, it's difficult to figure out who is the lead character, or at least the person we're supposed to sympathize with. Throughout the film we follow Paul (Biggs) and it seems that he is our protagonist. We feel for him when his dorm mates are mean spirited, when the girl of his dreams is misguided, and when everything tries to keep him from getting through school, but he lacks character development. He goes through hard times, but there's no resolution to be seen, and he doesn't change at all. Dora (Suvari) on the other hand has a mess of bad things happen to her, and then she changes her opinion about her relationship with her professor (Kinnear), which means she's the only character who evolves throughout the film. It seems that we should be following her, but then interwoven in her tale is that of Paul's, who just seems like some poor schmuck who never wins. Without any proper direction for our characters, and no change in their behaviors or thoughts on the world, there shouldn't really be any reason for this film to exist. It's trying to show the problems of college students, but it doesn't realistically depict them. Paul's three roommates are also pretty distracting, as they're rich, sycophantic rapists, who don't seem to get much comeuppance until the credits. Besides its plot defects it's also drab and very of its time, making this film a tiring slog.

Frankly, i think this is a pretty good movie, this is my favorite movie too, all the actors did their part, i'm amazed by Jason Biggs on how he portrayed his character.Unlike his other movies such as American pie, American reunion, etc. this one is quite different, best suited movie for all you people who prefer romantic,comedy movies most specifically it's best suited for almost summer type of thing. Asides from that, there are other actors who portray their roles, Andy Dick also appeared in this movie as a clerk, and David Spade as a video store clerk, which reminds me of the movie "The Benchwarmers" this time David Spade portrays Richie Goodman who is also a video store clerk so i find it kinda ironic but cool too, and not to mention that Mena Suvari never looked so beautiful before. the story line of this movie could also happen in real life for people who "just received a scholarship and moves to another place for collage and gets a crush on a girl" type of thing, this is a really good movie, i recommend this movie for a lot of people but this is not like American pie though, so i'll give it 10/10.

I really enjoyed this film! Its a real and genuine feel good movie which will undoubtedly charm you. Many films you watch once and never watch again, but for me i can watch this film many times and still get that same fuzzy feeling from when i first watched it.The acting is pretty good, I think pairing Mena Suvari and Jason Briggs was perfect as they'd already worked together in American Pie. The film is also more plot to it than most teen-comedy movies. It may not be as funny as the likes of American Pie, But it has many of its own qualities. Jason Briggs does really well and you end up really liking his Character, He does a really good job at playing Mr Nice and really charming you.Give this film a watch. You never know, you might just agree with me