The amount of cheese and camp and how corny it is now-- it's almost hard to watch the ending when they get together. JLH is so breathy and tries way too hard. She reminds me of that Twilight girl. I don't remember it being that bad when I first watched it
share"She reminds me of that Twilight girl."
Well, the author of Twilight actually originally envisioned JLH to play Bella in the movies.
NO...IT STILL ROCKS.
SHOWED IT TO MY 15 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER...SHE LOVED IT.
i've gotta say, of all the teen-movies of that time (and there was a glut of them at the turn of the millennium, until Not Another Teen Movie destroyed them all, including this one!), this is the only one that I can re-watch and still enjoy.
Maybe it's simply one of those guilty-pleasure rainy-day movies - it possibly helps that I first saw it on TV in the daytime during winter, so I don't really associate it with being a big schools-out summer-friday-night kinda movie, even though that's what it's supposed to be.
I also think, though, that when you get past all the cheese and some of the over the top characters (plus the dubious "moral of the story" that obsessive behaviour pays off in the end), there is some nuance and depth to it. Whether it was intended or whether I've just seen this movie too many times and am reading to much into it, I can't say.