The biggest draw for this film wasn’t the story or the beautiful young actresses in the film. Instead, it was because Jesse Metcalfe who became famous for being the young gardener on the Television show Desperate Housewives was playing everyone’s favorite hunk, John Tucker.
So like his TV personae his character in this film was popular with all the ladies. So popular, that he was dating as many of them as he could at the same time. Everything was going fine in his life until one day the new girl, Kate (Brittany Snow), catches him bringing three different girls to the restaurant where she works. The girls don’t know what’s going on because they are all from different cliques.
Heather (Ashanti) is the head cheerleader. Beth (Sophia Bush) is a vegan activist, and Carrie (Arielle Kebbel) is the genius school reporter.
When the four girls all find themselves stuck in the same gym class, it comes out that three of them are dating the same guy. While content on just beating up on one another, Kate talks them into something more satisfying, revenge on John Tucker.
Not thinking the girls will consider her idea, she’s shocked to find all of three of them showing up at her house for advice. Together the girls hatch the ultimate plan. It’s not just enough to humiliate him, but they need to break his heart. The best way to do that is to teach Kate how to become his perfect woman, and once he falls in love with her then they pull out the rug from underneath him.
While their plan is sound, the one factor that they can’t control is Kate actually falling for Tucker. And to make things even more interesting, she’s also fallen for John’s not-so-popular brother, Scott (Penn Badgley).
Along the way they find a few ways to humiliate John, such as putting his picture in a herpes commercial and getting him busted in a pair of women’s panties during an away game.
The film is actually a lot better than just your typical teen flick. It’s fun, enjoyable and the cast really seems to click with one another. The biggest problem with the film is the ending. Not only does John keep turning each humiliation into some weird victory for himself, but the ending moral is rather pathetic.
“As long as you’re good looking and rich you can do anything you want.”
While it’s certainly the way the world works, it’s a less than satisfying ending for a film. |
