Popular Jock on campus Zach Siler (Freddie Prinze Jr.) is making all the girls go crazy for him– and the guys. Envious of his luck with the women, things go a little south for the Jock when his girlfriend who is the cheerleading captain, Taylor (Jodie Lyn O’Keef) leaves him for a new form of “door knob”: “Sleaze”-T.V.-personality Brock Hudson (Mathew Lillard). Zach needs a spark to get his reputation back up, and his dating status up too. The Jock’s’ “highly intelligent” friends give him an impossible, and demeaning challenge: he has six weeks to gain the trust of a socially awkward girl in high school and turn her into a prom queen. This is Lainey Boggs (Rachel Leigh Cook) and she has no idea that this was all a plan from his friends.
I am not a fan of this film. I think that the topic itself is about a guy who takes advantage of a girl who is considered a “nerd”, when that is not at all who she is. The film has some redeeming qualities from the charm of the cast, trying to give a good performance to a bad script that has really no ground to stand on, some of the jokes are funny, I will give this film some credit for that. Also, it may be nostalgic to people who went to see it in the theater and grew up watching it. This film has the worst qualities of a romantic comedy (in my opinion) because of how the writer wrote, the character of Lainey Boggs, and how she is the typical stereotype of how a nerdy girl should look. At that point, all he forgot was the braces and the bad acne. There isn’t much to talk about with the directing, some of the actors in this film are popular actors that were sucked into a black hole of a bad film. For the first time in my section of the JTC Journal, I give this Film a Flaming Dumpster Fire, this is not good. I wouldn’t recommend this. For the next review, I will write about a good rom-com: Something’s Gotta Give. I will see you the next time you want to come back to the movies.