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One True Love (2000)
The man who brought down the Berlin wall does it again
I love David Hasselhof. When i sit at home at night watching his movies over and over again stroking the posters on my wall with every available part of my body, I can't help wondering how he repeatedly manages to associate himself with such energetic and creatively original scripts. I couldn't see the ending of this one coming at all! It definitely did NOT make me want to physically injure myself just so i could experience something worse than the sickly sweet clichéd banality manifesting itself on screen!! I can sleep better at night knowing that if it weren't for the Hoff, modern cinema as we know it would be choking on its own creative vomit.
Mean Girls (2004)
I am confused
Oh look. Another teen chick flick. Mean Girls starts off well. Lohan is likable enough, and pretty to look at which, lets face it, is going to keep the teenage boys who have taken their girlfriends to see it happy. The sub text of her naivety due to African home schooling seemed unnecessary. Being the new girl alone is reason enough for her to get into the situations she does. But aside from this, it starts off well. There are some nice gags, especially involving the maths team and there is the odd slice of adult humour. But what got to me was that the stereotypes that permeate the movie are knowingly sent up, but never really shattered. The film seems to nervously skirt the issue of whether it should destroy the clichés it projects, then wimps out at the last minute with a slushy ending. Watch American Pie or Bring it on. They seem less self conscious.