This movie may not be 10/10 great, but if you're looking for a good date movie, you may want to consider this one. I especially liked Steve Harvey, playing Nick Cannon's 'Stuck in the 70's' dad. Nick, Christina and the rest of the cast were believable in their roles, but still managed to stay funny. I thought the acting in the movie was great. (There's a cliché we never get tired of hearing.) In the end, Alvin learns that it's far more rewarding to just be himself. As Paris puts it, "Popularity is like a job" and you have to "work" to keep up with everyone else. So when popular cheerleader, Paris (Milian) gets into a jam, Alvin offers to help her if she pretends to be his girlfriend.īut Alvin soon finds out that there's more to popularity than he realized. As somebody who once wished he could be more popular in high school, I completely understand where Alvin was coming from. In the movie, Alvin (Cannon) is a nobody who wants to be a popular somebody. It was a good story about issues that most teens deal with everyday. Reviewed by jwhale9382 6 /10 It was good. I wanted to like the movie bc I was hoping it would remind me of Clueless or She's All That, or some of the other teen comedies I remember, but it didn't. However, what these movies did was allow themselves to be unique in the minds of viewers-introducing different elements in their updates (music in 'Summertime' and AOL in 'Mail'). A famous cheerleader ruins her parents SUV and is need of quick money, and gets it by Alvin, a smart but clumsy teenager, who wants her to be his girlfriend in exchange of cash.
For example, The Shop Around the Corner, In The Good Old Summertime, and You've Got Mail are all the same story with the last two being remakes of the first. Even though the plot line had different elements (not an exact copy), it still didn't try to be its own film. Cannon and Milian had enough chemistry which helped, but the film was still lacking. I was 20 when this movie was made, so I was right in the demo for it, but I definitely prefer CBML. This is up there w/Psycho (1998) and The Manchurian Candidate as remakes that should have never been made. Can't Buy Me Love was such a great 80s movie, and while Nick Cannon is a cutie, he's no Patrick Dempsey and his character had none of the charm.