John Tucker Must Die (2006)

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

I cannot honestly say I am satisfied with what this movie has to offer to the audience. If you are in the mood for a profound, imaginative and innovative movie, this one is not for you. As a romantic high school comedy, this movie is nothing more than exactly that. With stereotypical characters, predictable plot, hardly passable humor and average acting skills, it is not a masterpiece that will leave you amazed. However, if you are up for a relaxed, light movie that doesn't really make you think hard, you might just like it. The movie targets teen audience, and teens probably will enjoy it, but older audience members might find it dull, maybe even offensively mediocre.

Jesse Metcalfe current good guy hunk on the new Dallas and previously of Desperate Housewives stars as a high school heartthrob in John Tucker Must Die. Not that anyone is planning to actually murder him, but four'girls decide to take him down several pegs. That occurs when three of them actually discover that they're dating him as his one and only at the same time and the fourth just observes and crushes out on him.That fourth one is Brittany Snow and it's she that the others, Ashanti, Sophia Bush, and Arielle Kebbel settle on to be the instrument of his downfall. He's broken their collective hearts and he's got to pay.If you've seen any number of teen oriented flicks than you know exactly how this one will end up. Not since Beverly Hills 90210 have so many 20 something players got cast in high school roles. This is led by the star himself who is a great looking 28 year old when he did this film in 2006, but still looking 28. One of the things they do to Metcalfe is spike his sports drink with estrogen that one of the girls is taking to enhance her bosoms, not that any really needed it. And the macho basketball star begins showing some out of character behavior as such. Which by the way he does turn to his advantage.I'm sure at one time I might have found this much funnier. But I've come to know any number of male to female transgender people who take estrogen to change their very sexual identities and believe me a gag like that loses its humor quickly. It even caused me to drop my star rating on this venue.So don't expect too much from John Tucker Must Die unless you are below 18 or a die-hard Jesse Metcalfe fan.

Normally I dislike chick-flicks as it's normally about how the innocent girl gets the jock but this one is quite interesting and funny.The opening scene describes Kate (Brittany Snow) and how she has little or no friends because of her mother Lori (Jenny McCarty) and her bad relationships. She moves to a new town and meets a teenage jock and womanizer John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe). He dates three girls Carrie (Arielle Kebbel) a reporter for school paper and overachiever, Heather (Ashanti) the head-cheerleader and Beth (Sophia Bush) a vegan protester.The three girls find out with Kate's help that John's cheating on them. They attempt to get even by playing tricks on John but he quickly breaks up with them. They then decide to use Kate to get even by making her a new cheerleader. He gets attracted to her while clueless Kate plays hard to get however Kate begins having feelings for John which may ruin the plan.This light-hearted chick-flick is funny but the story is quite dull for guys but this movie would be excellent for teenage girls.

When I first watched the trailer for this movie, I was impressed, and thought it looked extremely funny. There were a lot of things in the trailer that I look for in a movie.The beginning of the movie and middle is very well done. Brittany Snow performed an excellent job as her character, and John Tucker was well performed by Jesse Metcalfe well as well.But when the movie was finished, I was very disappointed about the ending where John and Kate "break up", since through the whole movie, they acted like she was really in love with him rather than pretending.The jokes were funny, but at the unpredictable in a bad way ending, I will have to keep this movie in my "not so good" range.