I watched this recently whilst waiting for the tab during the 2006 Australasian Intervarsity Debating Tournament. This movie wavered between boring, to cheesy, to absolutely ridiculous - mostly absolutely ridiculous. Nevertheless, despite the lack of complexity in the plot, it was very funny to us debaters. I believe that this film should never be shown to even high school debaters if any emotional qualities are to be appreciated.
Even as a film standing alone, it fails. Cheesy lines like "It's not in the matter files; it's in you" just engender laughter, not tears. When such lines are mocked in the subsequent comedy debate, they have failed. There was so much cheese that when the lover boy gets hit by a car, everyone laughed. We were sick of him. And what was with mullet man literally "lifting cars"? Stupid.
I would not recommend this film to anyone, really, unless you're trying to satiate bored debaters and adjudicators at large debating tournaments.
Even as a film standing alone, it fails. Cheesy lines like "It's not in the matter files; it's in you" just engender laughter, not tears. When such lines are mocked in the subsequent comedy debate, they have failed. There was so much cheese that when the lover boy gets hit by a car, everyone laughed. We were sick of him. And what was with mullet man literally "lifting cars"? Stupid.
I would not recommend this film to anyone, really, unless you're trying to satiate bored debaters and adjudicators at large debating tournaments.