Producer review
Craig’s first viewing is mostly negative, with William and Tripp McNeely exceptions.
In the discussion (6)
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- Introduced as producer Craig, the first-time viewer finds the earnest romance dated, the archetypes and casting weak, and the film caught between Say Anything and American Pie.
- He likes William getting drunk and especially Jerry O'Connell’s warning about peaking in high school, likened to Mike seeing his future.
- He wants a college follow-up with Mike and Tripp.
- He concludes that the apparent archetype satire instead feels sloppy.
- The other speakers call this a time capsule and a movie where you had to be there.
- The others defend the film’s modest ambitions, cheap production, young cast and humorous execution as characteristic of the era.