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Movie Review for Whatever It Takes
Movie Review for
Whatever It Takes
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Whatever It Takes | | |
| Also known as: | I'll Be You, Dangereuse Seduction |
37 Reviews total.
Release date: 3/24/2000
Run length: 92 mins.
Categories:
Comedy
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Romance
Summary:
High school senior Ryan Woodman and every other male student at Gilmore High has a massive crush on the most luscious knockout ever to walk its hallowed halls, Ashley Grant. The only problem? Ryan is persona non grata in the popular set and hardly worthy of Ashley's attention. Enter Chris, resident babe magnet, who's pining to no avail after Ryan's best friend Maggie, a girl with beauty, brains and a big heart. It's four weeks until graduation, and the clock is ticking for Ryan and Chris to snag their respective dreamgirls. Chris and Ryan, flanked by bumbling buddies Floyd, Cosmo and Dunleavy, go to outrageous lengths as they hatch a plan which, if successful, will land them both with the right girl- or so they think.
Reviews of Whatever It Takes
By
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
of Atlanta Journal-Constitution (5/2)
If you saw a single John Hughes movie from the 1980s, you've already seen this territory covered ...
By
Marc Savlov
of Austin Chronicle (7/0)
With a running time of 92 minutes, Whatever It Takes is too long by an hour and a half.
By
Mike Kerrigan
of Boxoffice Magazine (7/0)
It never has enough confidence to let itself go and shock or surprise the audience.
By
Roger Ebert
of Chicago Sun-Times (7/0)
Still another movie arguing that the American teenager's IQ level hovers in the low 90s.
By
Sean O'Connell
of Citysearch (7/0)
The only thing you won't see through the sparkling smiles of the fresh-faced, beautiful cast is a...
By
Steven Rosen
of Denver Post (7/0)
Falls flat with unbelievably bad scenes that are also just plain unbelievable.
Reviews of Whatever It Takes
By
Jason Anderson
of eye WEEKLY (7/0)
Besides being strictly perfunctory, the movie is marked by its offhand sense of cruelty.
By
David Noh
of Film Journal International (7/0)
You can see the outcome from the very first seconds of the film, and Mark Schwahn's screenplay pl...
By
Chris Gore
of Film Threat (7/0)
This is about as lame as teen comedy/romance films come.
By
Robert Philpot
of Fort Worth Star-Telegram (7/0)
You -- yes, you -- can write a teen comedy. Whatever It Takes is proof.
By
Rick Groen
of Globe and Mail (7/0)
What you're actually hearing is the sound of a really old coot preaching a very practised sermon.
By
Eric Lurio
of Greenwich Village Gazette (7/0)
While it isn't really worth the trip to the theater, it's good enough for a rental when it comes ...
Reviews of Whatever It Takes
By
Pamela Mitchell
of Houston Chronicle (7/0)
Lame script.
By
Bob Thompson
of Jam! Movies (7/0)
The cliches annoy.
By
Bob Strauss
of Los Angeles Daily News (7/0)
What's that you say? You want what? Originality? Or at least something marginally distinctive? Th...
By
Michael Atkinson
of Mr. Showbiz (7/0)
Yet another leaden, witless, cliché-drunk, teen romantic comedy.
By
Lou Lumenick
of New York Post (7/0)
An assembly-line high-school comedy that flunks miserably in all three subjects.
By
Frank Swietek
of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
The mixture of puerile double entendres, vomit humor, dumb-blonde and dumb-jock jokes, and smarmy...
Reviews of Whatever It Takes
By
Roger Moore
of Orlando Sentinel (7/0)
There's something sweet and delightfully anarchic about it.
By
George Meyer
of Orlando Weekly (7/0)
The predictable scenarios don't allow the actors many opportunities to distinguish themselves.
By
Steven Mazey
of Ottawa Citizen (7/0)
The photogenic actors are charmless, and the whole thing has the look and feel of a cheap made-fo...
By
David Nusair
of Reel Film Reviews (7/0)
Whatever It Takes is certainly nothing new or ground-breaking, but for what it is, it's entertain...
By
Mary Kalin-Casey
of Reel.com (7/0)
Despite its formulaic plot and all-too-tired themes, this John Hughes-movie wannabe has just enou...
By
James Berardinelli
of ReelViews (7/0)
Like some kind of perverse cinematic plague, the teen comedies keep coming, each looking like a m...
Reviews of Whatever It Takes
By
Jack Garner
of Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (7/0)
Made-for-TV blandness.
By
Joe Baltake
of Sacramento Bee (7/0)
Lame corruption of the 'Cyrano' legend.
By
David Elliott
of San Diego Union-Tribune (7/0)
What the film takes for granted is that there is a young horde waiting to be sold the old tripe a...
By
Mick LaSalle
of San Francisco Chronicle (7/0)
Emotional falsehood permeates the picture, but at least the young actors are appealing.
By
Walter V. Addiego
of San Francisco Examiner (7/0)
It serves as a platform for its filmmakers to use shallow teenagers to reflect their own tastes.
By
Jim Judy
of Screen It! (7/0)
An occasionally amusing but otherwise unimaginative teen-based comedy.
Reviews of Whatever It Takes
By
John Hartl
of Seattle Times (7/0)
Tepid, predictable fantasy.
By
Rob Blackwelder
of SPLICEDWire (7/0)
Another lowest-common- denominator high school romance made from the cannibalized parts of equall...
By
Mac Verstandig
of Stage Newspaper (7/0)
The unoriginal plot mixed with the apparent inability to land a single joke doom the production f...
By
Maitland McDonagh
of TV Guide's Movie Guide (7/0)
Worthy sentiments all, but not exactly fresh insights.
By
Robert Koehler
of Variety (7/0)
The lightest, most forgettable item yet backed by Phoenix Pictures.
By
Michael O'Sullivan
of Washington Post (7/0)
West, Franco, O'Keefe and Sokoloff are fine. It's just the dynamic of the callous jock/lovable od...
Reviews of Whatever It Takes
By
A. O. Scott
of New York Times (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
The script's way of handling its romantic complications is unusually obtuse and insensitive.
Movie Distributors
Sony Pictures Releasing Production Companies
Paul Schiff Productions
Phoenix Pictures Movie Studios
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