(Dir: John Shultz)
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(Dir: John Shultz)
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reviewed by Stuart Napier
This film is based on the novel "How I Created My Perfect Prom Date" by Todd Strasser. The screenplay is by Rob Thomas (Dawsons Creek), and this really shows in many of the scenes. Cynically renamed after the Britney Spears song, teenagers will love it.
Nicole (Melissa Joan Hart) is a high school socialite, whose interests mainly lay in her clothes, image, and the schools star basketball player. Chase (Adrian Grenier) is Nicoles next door neighbour, and prefers the opposite side of the social specrum. The story involves Nicole and Chase losing their respective romantic interests, and deciding to "date" each other in an attempt to regain their interests via jealosy. The story crashes on towards a school centennial dance, which is obviously the finale from the start of the film. Nicole and Chase gradually compromise their social differences, and grow closer together as the film develops. They then start to realise that maybe love is closer to home than what they imagined.
Drive Me Crazy will appeal to a mainly female audience unless Melissa Joan Hart manages to lure a few lecherous males. If you like the genre of the film, I see no reason why you shouldnt go and see it, but it is aimed at an adolescent audience.
Stu.
reviewed by Dave Owston
This film is named after the Britney Spears song, and has about as much depth! Typical in it's portrayal of American high school, it offers absolutely nothing new, and is filled with cliches after cliches. This is a very successful formula however, and has worked for such televisual treats as "Saved by the bell" and "California dreams". Countless films have used this plot template, and it will always sell to adolescents. What worries me is the gulf in class between these new bubblegum productions, and the brat pack classics that I grew up on. Drive Me Crazy is rated certificate 12, and I would advise anyone much older to stay at home!
Starring the ever annoying Melissa Joan Hart, she apparently plays a character very different to Sabrina the teenage witch. Different only in the way that her character Nicole doesnt dabble in witchcraft! Adrian Grenier (Chase), plays her next door neighbour and does a great job of acting like a dozy, half-witted American, which he no doubt is. The plot is basically boy and girl are on opposite sides of the society spectrum, loads of nonsense in the middle, and then boy and girl love each other.....ground breaking! If you want to know what else happens, just watch any episode of Dawsons Creek, and you wont be far off! I bitterly regret having to sit through this bilge, and perhaps envy the ignorance of youth!
Dave
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