Get Over It

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Get Over It: * "Get Over It" is another stupid teen romance comedy thing. It's like a horrible creation. It's "Bring it On" and "She's All That" gone horribly wrong. The humour is really bad, too. As the movie progressed I counted: 3 hits in the crotch, 3 scenes involving a humping dog, 2 flatulation jokes, a dominatrix scene, a scene where the parents incourage their son to * and not to mention numerous drinking scenes. This is what is presented to teens these days. That is just wrong. "Get Over" is the same formula for all these movies. A guy loses girlfriend. Girlfriend finds new jerk boyfriend. Guy gets jealous and get a girl to help him get girlfriend back. Guy and girl fall for each other. End of movie. Oh, plus there's Sisqo! I don't know which character I hated more: The jerky boyfriend or the innocent guy who got dumped. I know I'm not suppose to hate the guy. But he is so pathetic and annoying. All he does is walk around through the whole movie and complain about his girlfriend. The movie stars Kirsten Dunst, who I really like. And she is good in this movie, but c'mon! She really picked a bad one this time. And practically everyone else in the movie is stupid and I hate them. That sounds mean, but OH WELL! The only characters I like are played by Martin Short, Swosie Kurtz and Ed Beagly, Jr. And look, they're all adults. I took more pleasure watching the adults more than the teens in a TEEN MOVIE! There is one scene that I actually liked. It was in the beginning where the dump-ee is walking down the street after being dumped and this girl is singing about love and a bunch of couples are dancing around her. It was fun. I have just wasted an hour and a half of my life that I will never get back. Oh, how I pity myself.

This is one of my favorite movies. Many characters are outlandish and ridiculous, but that just adds to the fun. The direction is creative and original, and the plot is both hilarious and believable. This movie is great for anyone who likes teen comedy or likes to laugh. Just don't set your expectations too high -- this is plain fun, not high art. Dunst is in top form, and the other actors are simply a joy to watch. Shane West's unbelievable accent will keep you rolling. Short is excellent. Foster is fabulous. Hanks is great. The music is another excellent reason to watch this movie in itself. If you hate it, you probably don't have a soul. (I kid.) Seriously, this movie deserves to be watched at least once.

Art determines culture rather than merely reporting on it. The influential arts were at one time novels, then painting, then briefly popular music. That role is now held by popular film. And no popular art is more influential than that which is embraced by the youth -- they have more advanced minds in terms of form and they will be the 'great static middle' in only few years. All this is to say, that if you want to look for the most influential abstractions in society, leading society, the place to look is in teen movies. No foolin. And the farther from 'real' art, the better. This is a prime example, in part because it is not a sex or grossout movie, and actually has a narrative. It has benefited from some real attention: it has Dunst, the very very top actress in the teen genre; it has a few recognizable music personalities and their songs; it has Hanks' kid; it has some pretty top production professionals. But it also is in part a musical, which is an odd relationship of abstractions. The story in musicals exists in a real world of sorts that sometimes touches but often separates from our world. How that separation occurs is a matter of what types of abstractions the audience can readily understand. For instance: the very first scene here has our guy in the real world. As he leaves the dumping room, he is followed by a growing production number. Now in a normal musical, the world would change into some performance world for our benefit. But look what happens here: he stays in the real world, and the abstract world follows behind him, pulling more and more people from the real world into the fairyland. But not him -- instead we have two parallel worlds in pretty complex relationship And this film also has Shakespeare, the master of narrative abstraction, and one play that goofs around with some rather ordinary notions of those worlds: regular people and magical gods with their spirits. But look what we have here and be pretty encouraged at the ability of the young mind to subliminally understand, even enjoy the mix of such complex abstractions: -- That musical opening scene where the musical characters are invisible harpies later to be related to the play's fairies. -- The good old, ordinary basis of some people putting on a play and the matter of the play reflects the dynamics of 'real' life. (and the also much-used notion that the one 'creates' the other). -- Several sequences that are first imagined, then dreamed which 'project' real life into not the play, but a magically idealized magical vision of the play. -- A whole lot of extra stuff concerning creatorship that would be impossible for Shakespeare's audience: the English performer, Dunst's songwriting, Short's authoring, and the inclusion of 'real' songwriters in our world as ordinary characters in the 'real world' of the movie. -- Three notable cases where the comic elements that would be in the play (Bottom, etc) are transported to the movie: Short's character, Dora Lynn's physical humor, and the two stagehands. This latter one is a particularly weird bending, where they become the fairies. In fact, those two plus Peter Wong (who actually flies in an omitted scene) are the real fairies who at the critical moment change the reality of the play. -- And we have the show at the sex club, which involves putting Berke in a harness (just like the play's fairies), but here the roles are somewhat reversed: the sex controllers are the ones not flying. Pretty sophisticated worldshifting I say. Much snappier consciousness-bending than the relatively humbug Matrix.

GET OVER IT, in my opinion, is a sweet movie that's sure to touch you, make you feel warm inside, and make you laugh. I thought that what Allison (Melissa Sagemiller) did to Berke (Ben Foster) was very cold. But when he fell for Kelly (Kirsten Dunst), I felt happy for him. I've been in a similar situation before, and it hurt like h***, but after a while, I got over it, and now I'm seeing someone new. Before I wrap this up, I'd like to say that everyone involved in this film did a terrific job. Now, in conclusion, to all you Kirsten Dunst fans who haven't seen this sweet movie that's sure to touch you, make you feel warm inside, and make you laugh, I highly recommend it.

This movie falls short in a lot of things but I have to admit...I love it. I KNOW it's just another teen romance movie, but for me the acting of the two main characters, Ben Foster and Kirsten Dunst, as well as the singing that they actually did themselves, combined with the fact that parts of the movie are just plain weird, somehow captivates me into watching it...oh...maybe 25 times now. I think I am a sick freak that needs counseling but I love this movie. I don't really like Martin Short, but I thought he was excellent in this movie. I honestly thought the romance between Kelly and Burke was very believable and sweet in its way. I also am about to join a group about weird obsessive people who like movies that are not that great. Just kidding. Love this movie.

I feel embarrassed for everyone in this cast. I especially feel bad for Martin Short as he is hilarious and deserved so much better than this. He was the only thing good about this mess. I've seen a lot of teen movies and even though most of them are just barely above high school level they can be endearing and enjoyable and some are classics (looking at you 'She's All That') BUT this was just a shameless money grab to capitalize on some of the flavor of the month bit players-Sisqo (can't even find any current information on him he's been out of the picture for so long), Vitamin C?! (I had forgotten all about her), Carmen Electra (her 15 minutes was up ages ago). You get the point. This movie is about two people who knew each other as kids. They drift apart and then rediscover each other years later. They start dating then she breaks up with him as she says there's no spark anymore. He's sad...she moves on with the obligatory ex-boy band accented pretty boy who is a jerk with no substance. They are in a school play and the lead ends up with his best friend's sister who has loved him from afar. The movie ends with Sisqo dancing and singing with the rest of the cast dancing around embarrassingly. Yep...that's it. It's a real life changer (eye roll). Shane West...sooooo bad! What accent was he doing and why didn't someone provide him with an accent coach? Oh I know why because they didn't care as they knew this movie didn't matter. Ben Foster-can't believe he ever did this. He looked miserable the whole time and was so awkward. Now he fancies himself a serious actor so this has got to be a stain on his CV that he wishes he could erase. He was so incredibly dopey in this. He brought it down considerably. Melissa Sagemiller-not even acting anymore. Enough said. Colin Hanks-is obviously not his father but in some ways I feel bad for him. His acting isn't terrible but you can almost feel the desperation coming out of his pores to be accepted, respected and liked as an actor on his own merit; but his performances are so drab and forgettable that it could be anyone in the roles he's been in. He didn't add anything here. Mila Kunis-I like her but she was just thrown in this for window dressing. The only thing interesting about seeing her in this is how much of a baby face she had. Everyone else was forgettable-that's right even snaggletooth (why won't actors fix their teeth?! When the teeth need their own starring role it's just distracting and you don't see the performance you only see the teeth). There are countless films out there that didn't need to be made...this is definitely one of them.

Great watch, will watch again, and can recommend. I'm extremely biased as I've watched this repeatedly: I really like modern, palatable adaptations of Shakespeare (which we seemed to quit after this), this even got me over not liking Kirsten Dunst. I get it if you think this movie is dated, hell it has Vitamin C and Sisqo in it, and it is full of tropey stuff, but when this was made, that was relatively newer stuff, and some of the things that people make fun of in later rom coms stems from this movie and its late 1990's early 2000's family. Music / singing in movies is fun, it's not always great, but it's usually fun (see Trolls: most people have fun, it doesn't "help" the story though), and setting a complex teen rom com at a high school level makes the music an easy palatable distraction. And this movie has a great cast, they clearly had fun making it: Martin Short of all people, even in 2001, Mila Kunis, Ben Foster, Colin Hanks, Zoe Saldana, Shane West, and even Carmen Electra makes an (uneccessary) cameo. While I'll admit the story is a little rudimentary, extended from Mid Summer Night's dream, and relying on stock characters to basically do what stock characters stereotypically do, there is just a lot of charm in this. For me, it's about demonstrating the relationships between the characters to make the world feel real.

Out of the many, many teen flicks out there today, I find this one my favorite of them all. It stands above the rest mainly because it does not take itself seriously. In the first, oh, five minutes of the film you have: 1) A guy being sucked into a vortex when his girlfriend breaks up with him and 2) A full-on song and dance number. Yes, this movie is stupid, and it knows it. I find the first, oh two-thirds of the movie to be amusing, but nothing really special. The last third of the movie is where the film really picks up pace and made me fall in love with it. The school play is surprisingly true to real life (at least how theatre was at my school) and the song/dance numbers are priceless. I often find myself fast-forwarding to these scenes when I don't have the time to watch the whole thing. Good movie for when you want to shut off your brain and just enjoy mindless entertainment.

Get Over It has it's moments even if it's another typical teen flick. And at least it's something to look to besides the suck-fest known as Bring it On. The story here follows a kid who has been going out with a girl for as long as he can remember, until the girlfriend end the relationship. Then the comedy ensues as he tries to get over it, and a sister of his best friend (Kirsten Dunst isn't actually misused here) starts to be interested in him. Overall, a teen fare that will come as surprising as the shower scene in Psycho for the 40th time, but luckily the film does have some moments to wait for, especially Martin Short's performance as a theatre director. B