Summary
Anyway, when they find out they're being three-timed by smooth-talking, long-eyelashed [John Tucker] (Jesse Metcalfe, Eva Longoria's boy toy on Desperate Housewives), they recruit mousey new-girl-in-school Kate (American Dreams' Brittany Snow) for their esteem-destruction mission. A basically nice girl with no self-confidence -- by way of explanation, her mother is played by Jenny McCarthy -- Kate longs to fit in. So she lets the mad girls use her, but as she gets deeper into tricking John, she starts to fall for him like everyone else.
Complicated, huh? Maybe if you're 12, but otherwise it's just by-the-book, utterly reliant on gross stereotypes and the most predictable reversals of such. Clever writing could have made this tolerable, but there's none of that in sitcom veteran Jeff Lowell's debut feature film script.See the full content of this document
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Mean-Spirited Comedy Piles On the Stereotypes
By Bob Strauss
Teen airhead comedy doesn't get much nastier, or lazier, than John Tucker Must Die.When three girls from different hig...See the full content of this document
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