GENRE: COMEDY
RATING: PG-13
STUDIO: 20TH CENTURY FOX
THEATRICAL RELEASE: JULY 10, 2009
DVD RELEASE: NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I gotta say…I feel stupider for having watched this film. It was an hour and a half of mindless drivel that I never once laughed at. So, as a comedy, it fails. Even as mind-numbing entertainment it fails. I’d rather watch Transformers 2 over and over and over again than ever have to watch I Love You Beth Cooper ever again.

From the pointless plot (if you can call it that), to the terrible acting, to the no-laugh comedic antics, this movie falls on its face from the get-go. The previews showed all of the parts that had any potential of being funny at all. Unfortunately, those parts never panned out.

Truth be told, the only reason I even bothered picking up this mindless drivel was because I like Hayden Panetierre. Needless to say, I’m sorry I did and I can’t believe she even did this movie. Did she even read the script? Was there even a script to read?

Sometimes I love to hate a movie. If that movie has been overhyped, yet tells the same old story we’ve been told before, yeah, I enjoy taking it down a notch. However, I don’t love hating I Love You Beth Cooper. I just hate Beth Cooper. Maybe if I were a Neanderthal high school student playing World of Warcraft in my parents’ basement with Cheetos covered fingers I might find some of this movie amazing. But, even a Neanderthal high school student playing World of Warcraft in their parents’ basement might be a little too sophisticated for this movie.

And don’t even get me started on the poor attempt to add a “message” to this film. Really? Really? Are you seriously going to try to preach a message of “acceptance” and “transparency” in a movie like this one? Really? How dare you.

I’ve done you all a favor by watching this movie. Now I can tell you not to watch it.

Don’t watch it. It’s stupid. You’ll be stupider for watching it.

Review copy provided courtesy of 20th Century Fox.

Review used by permission from The Christian Manifesto.