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Get Over It tells the heartbreaking story of a young man, dumped by his one true love. Ben Foster is said young man, and man; is he put through it. The poor lad first has to go through the horrors of being dumped, and not just by anyone; but by his high school sweetheart, and his pain doesn't stop there; salt is added to the wound when his ex-girlfriend gets a new boyfriend. Fair enough, you may think; until you realize he's a petty, leather pants wearing nancy boy, who's in a boyband no less! Things aren't looking up for our hero. In a final, desperate attempt to win back the girl of his dreams, Foster joins with the theatre school, who happen to be putting on a musical performance of "A midsummer night's dream", and to help become a better actor, he enlists the help of his friend's sister, Kirsten Dunst. Yes, I don't blame him either. Naturally, romance ensues where 'you least expect' (or not), and that is the major plot point of the film.

I didn't have particularly high expectations going into this movie, but Get Over It managed to fall short of them anyway. You cant go into a teen comedy expecting great things, but this movie has so many things going for it that it really should have been towards the top of the genre. First of all, it has a great cast. Kirsten Dunst headlines it, and rightly so. Her performance in this movie isn't one of her best, but she is sweetness personified; and that's all she needs to be. Ben Foster is the backbone of the movie, and his performance is great. Not great in the Robert DeNiro sense of the word, but for what it is; his performance is good. Excellent support is given to the two leads by Melissa Sagemiller (whom you might remember as the true star of Soul Survivors, although hopefully not), Shane West, who is campy but fun and also Martin Short, who is hilarious as the director of the play. Get Over It also has a decent enough script, but it suffers due to the high concentration of teen comedy clichés. We've got an overly hormonal dog, various people being hurled around in the air, overly silly characters etc; and it devalues the film. Had it have pulled away from the pitfalls of teen comedy, and more into a teen drama such as Kirsten's other 2001 film; Crazy/Beautiful, it would have been a far better movie. That being said; Get Over It is worth watching if you're after 90 minutes of entertainment. It has more than enough funny moments, and there's a good sense of fun overall. It's just a shame that it wasn't better.

There are times when you want a story that is good and happy and does not require a ton of thought. The characters are sweet and compelling and there is some depth in the thought that sometimes one door may close and a better one may open. I liked the musical and the young talent doing their own thing. Just a well done coming of age romantic comedy.

Get Over It is a 2001 movie starring Ben Foster,Spiderman's Kristen Dunst,A Walk To Remember's Shane West and Avatar star Zoe Saldana and tells the tale of a young man named Berke(Foster)who's childhood sweetheart wants to call it quits. He of course is heartbroken over it and like what the title says he just has to get over it. But when he finds out that there is a school play going on he decides to audition for it as he found out that his former flame is now going out with a Backstreet Boy clone singer called Skitter(played by Shane West sporting a rather unusual British accent that sometimes sounds like an Aussie accent from time to time)whom Berke met earlier on in the film. But things get even more complicated for Berke when we asks his Best Friend's(Colin Hanks the son of Tom Hanks)sister Kelly(played by Kristen Dunst) and later sorta falls for her as she is helping Berke with his lines.

But when his former flame later wants to get back together with him,who must he choose?

Bottom line this movie is no masterpiece or the best film ever made,but there are some scenes that will have you laughing so hard like Kelly's dog humping a ball,or an accident prone who ruins a dinner date that she was in with Berke.

Check it out and see what you can make out of it.

Also keep an eye out for Sisqo(a former singer from the early 00s) as Ben Foster's other friend.

6 out of 10.

And yet we have another movie where a boy loves girl, girl loves boy back, girl gets bored with boy, boy gets dumped, girl finds another guy, and boy tries to win back the heart of girl until boy later falls for another girl in the process. This formula in teen movies has been played over and over again, so why waste your time watching another one?

What makes this movie different from others of this genre are the actors and seeing them perform roles that they have never done before and somehow pulling it off. First, we have Ben Foster, a name that immediately makes you think of all the socially awkward rejects and enraged psychos that he has played during his short career. Here, he gets to play a different role as the clueless basketball jock Berke Landers, who is desperately trying to win back his sexy ex-girlfriend Allison McAllister by entering into the school theatre production that she has chosen to take part in. Although a skeptical casting choice, Foster pulls off the role with the right amount of finesse, making Berke cool enough to see why a stunning beauty like Allison would fall for him while at the same time making him not so cool so we understand why Allison might have gotten bored with him (something teen idol Freddie Prinze, Jr. would have a hard time doing). With his right combination of average good looks, low-key charisma, and competitive attitude, Foster ultimately convinced me as the lovestruck teen protagonist.

Another against type performance is given by Kirsten Dunst. She plays Kelly Woods, the younger sister of Berke's best friend Felix, who is desperately trying to get the attention of Berke, who is too busy trying to woo his ex. Usually playing the sought-after, popular teen queen, Kirsten Dunst is now the under-appreciated, unnoticed girl, despite her everpresent attractiveness both on the outside and inside. Dunst gets to downplay her engaging screen presence in order to allow love object Foster to be the focus of the film and does so successfully.

In addition to the two leads, we have Colin Hanks, whose nerdy and studious characters in Roswell and Orange County are forgotten by his performance here as party animal and fellow jock Felix Woods, who is both helping Berke forget about Allison and keeping other guys from hitting on his kid sister. Hanks provides a lot of the comedy, channeling some of his father's zany comedic appeal from the early part of his career in the 1980s.

Meanwhile, we have Shane West and Sisqo playing away from their usual entertainment personas. Niceguy Shane West of Once and Again and Whatever It Takes plays the teen villain as Bentley "Striker" Scrumfeld, the British heartthrob and school's new theatre buff who "dazzles his way" into Allison's fancies. Singer Sisqo, who is known for his sexually-charged dance performances and seductive R&B lyrical vocals, plays the timid Dennis Wallace, another friend of Berke and basketball star trying to muster up the courage to ask out Kelly's friend Basin, played surprisingly sweet by Mila Kunis, an actress known for playing less friendly characters on screen. Added to the mix are Berke's hilariously liberal parents, played with comic delight by serious, dramatic actors Ed Begley, Jr. and Swoosie Kurtz.

The only other main character not cast against type is Dr. Desmond Forrest Oates, the egocentric drama coach trying to keep the play from being a total disaster. Dr. Oates is played unsurprisingly over-the-top by Martin Short, but unlike in most of his comedies, I found Short to be quite funny here.

Don't expect anything new or surprising in the storyline and don't expect the jokes to be too original, but do expect to be surprised by the actors playing the roles and enjoy their performances. If you follow this formula, you are in for a quite a treat.

Oh, gosh! Another lame teen comedy. I didn't see that coming! This movie wallows in predictability, never once deviating from the extremely tired formula of the thousands of other teeny-bopper flicks. You can (literally!) figure out the whole plot structure simply by reading the synopsis.

The film starts out as a slapstick comedy. The silly, cartoonish, far-fetched slapstick fails over and over again, and fails miserably in one overlong sequence in which Burke (Ben Foster) takes a hot date from New Zealand out to a restaurant. She happens to be clumsy, and all hell breaks loose. Think the disastrous restaurant sequence from "Woo" and multiply the running time by 3 and you have one stupid, overlong gag with a piece of (computer-animated--yes that's right) beef flying around. Come on, even farce needs a touch of reality. And we have an embarrassingly recurring gag involving a dog humping everything in sight. How original!

Speaking of an absence of originality, we have Swoozie Kurtz and Ed Begley, Jr. (two prestigious actors--one of those instances where you can't help but ponder "WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING IN THIS PIECE OF CRAP?!!!!") as--guess what?--the stupid, gullible parents. The same gullible Mom and Dad team we've seen in the past teen flick and the one before that and the one before that. Except their gimmick is they actually condone their son's (Foster) decadent behavior, even when he gets stripped and hung on a series of leather straps at a nudie bar. I'm surprised Tom Hanks doesn't disown his son. While he's doing such great films like "Forrest Gump" and "Cast Away" his son is doing lame teen flicks like this and "Whatever It Takes." What happened to the tradition of actors like Kirk Douglas and Lloyd Bridges, whose sons take after their fathers' success and become great actors themselves? Tom, teach your son Colin right. You're not doing your job. Of course, to spice things up a little they decided to add Martin Short to the cast. Unfortunately, even he can't save the day. He's handed an unfunny role and only musters a few laughs out of his desperate ranting and raving as a flambouyant theater director. This measures up to his throwaway role in the other disastrous comedy "Jungle 2 Jungle." I guess after his talk show got cancelled he figures, "I'll take whatever role is thrown at me." As for Sisqo--love the "Thong Song." You're a great musician, but stay away from celluloid! You deliver your lines like a malfunctioning robot. Not to mention he's playing a TEENAGER in this film. Yeah right! Ben Foster was terrific in Barry Levinson's underrated coming-of-age drama "Liberty Heights." Here, he seems as bored with the film as we do. And as for the presences of Kirsten Dunst and Carmen Electra (who graces the screen for about three minutes), they didn't help out much in the acting department but served as great eye candy.

The second half of the film is a boring compilation of the SAME EXACT CRAP WE'VE SEEN DONE OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN THESE STUPID TEEN ROMANCES! Burke, whose initial plan was to get Allison (Melissa Sagemiller) back spends a lot of time with his friend's (Hanks) sister (Dunst). The romance blooms. And we're forced to sit through the same tired scenes that help the film reach the end of its ultimately predictable arc. The only reason why I'm not going into any details is because that would (for some crazy reason, technically) be considered a spoiler and I want people who haven't seen this piece of garbage to read my comments, so they won't be subjected to the same torcher as me.

The only reason why I'm giving this movie a rating of 3 is the spectacular opening. Why is it that so many movies start with great openings, then let us down completely? We start with Burke getting his things out of Allison's house after breaking up with her, and we have a big musical number where he walks down the street carrying his box of stuff while all the townies are behind him, dancing and singing along to the Captain and Tenille's "Love Will Keep Us Together." We also have a brief appearance by pop superstar Vitamin C. It's a great scene that really gets your energy going. Unfortunately, it's all downhill from there and the upbeat rhythm comes to a screeching halt. The film has a sense of style to it, but it's the same style used in all the previous teen flicks. The camera movements, the music cues, everything. I'm not impressed.

Roger Ebert said it himself: A good movie is never too long and a bad movie is never too short. This is raw proof. "Get Over It" runs at a total of 86 minutes, yet I'd rather watch "Braveheart" for a whole three hours than sit through five minutes of "GOI."

My score: 3 (out of 10)