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BekkaLass

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I saw this recently on tv and I thought it was cute. Ethan Embry was adorable, but I understand he is nothing like Preston in real life, so sad....LOL:) The ensemble was good, I love Seth Green, he is so under-rated and under used in films.Not a...
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I saw this recently on tv and I thought it was cute. Ethan Embry was adorable, but I understand he is nothing like Preston in real life, so sad....LOL:) The ensemble was good, I love Seth Green, he is so under-rated and under used in films.Not a bad little flick!:)

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Posted aug 16, 2007 2:04 am pt

mattc7691

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A great movie, one of the best teen comedy movies that I've seen!

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Posted may 21, 2007 12:23 am pt

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"Can't Hardly Wait" is a personal favorite from the late 1990s when Hollywood was pumping out teen comedies left and right, some of them good and original and some of them bad and cliched. This movie was a little cliched, but it was...
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"Can't Hardly Wait" is a personal favorite from the late 1990s when Hollywood was pumping out teen comedies left and right, some of them good and original and some of them bad and cliched. This movie was a little cliched, but it was actually very funny and entertaining. Kudos for Ethan Embry's performance. Seth Green's character is also a classic.

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Posted mar 2, 2007 10:09 pm pt

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Definitely a personal favorite. I really love this movie. I own it and will just put it on every once in a while. The Paradise City scene is my favorite me thinks. There are quite a few classic lines, and just scenes that make me laugh.

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Posted feb 19, 2007 1:29 am pt

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A favorite!

I love this movie, it is a very fun movie! I love the whole movie being about a high school party. Of course that is not the plot of the movie. I love the love story that is taking place as well. I find the party to be...
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A favorite!

I love this movie, it is a very fun movie! I love the whole movie being about a high school party. Of course that is not the plot of the movie. I love the love story that is taking place as well. I find the party to be entertaining to watch, I love the nerds seeking revenge. I loved all of the different clicks and stereo typing. This movie was great and the soundtrack could possibly be one of my favorites. I loved the cast, the story, the soundtrack, the characters, and well the whole movie! I watch it on a regular basis. I would give it a 6/5 if I could.

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Posted dec 20, 2006 10:49 pm pt

• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  90
  For all its nonstop energy and high spirits, Can't Hardly Wait allows its characters to emerge as fully dimensional individuals; they've been written with care and perception and played with equal aplomb by a roster of talented young actors.

  by Kevin Thomas | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  80
  It's not supposed to be a revelation--just a pleasant rendition of a teen-comedy trope

  by Lisa Alspector | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  75
  Can't Hardly Wait has freshness, comic invention and an engaging romantic spirit.

  by Mick LaSalle | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  70
  But the film deserves credit, both for its breezy pacing and its uncommon tendency to make its characters smarter and geekier than they might have been.

  by Stephen Thompson | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  70
  [The writers/directors] show easygoing humor and the wisdom to borrow well. Their film at various times recalls tenderhearted coming-of-age comedies from "American Graffiti" onward, with strong homage to the works of Cameron Crowe, Amy Heckerling and John Hughes.

  by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  67
  Nobody's going to give this one an Oscar, sure, but as far as the venerable teen sex comedy goes, this one actually makes it to third base.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  60
  It's all cutely derivative, occasionally charming and very occasionally clever...but the movie's vague aspirations to being something more than disposable fluff never amount to anything.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  58
  Agreeably mindless generation-next trash, but it leaves you hungry for a movie in which the characters are more than walking screenwriter index cards.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  50
  [The soundtrack] manages to serve up new rock, eighties dance music, rap and Barry Manilow -- a combination custom-made to annoy audiences of all ages.

  by Liam Lacey | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  50
  A mediocre attempt to recapture the exuberance and candid portraiture of such high school movie classics as "American Graffiti," "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "Dazed and Confused."

  by Emanuel Levy | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
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  Seeing gawky Charlie Korsmo, one-time movie moppet, as a superbrain whose introduction to alcohol leads him to do a rip-roaring rendition of Guns N' Roses' Paradise City, is worth a smile or two. But even that can't save [the] film.

  by Susan Wloszczyna | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  50
  Flunks the freshness test.

  by Dave Kehr | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  50
  Instead of bringing intriguing characters with real problems and interesting dialogue to the bash, Kaplan and Elfont take the lazy approach of pulling generic stereotypes off the shelf and throwing them into a formulaic plot that doesn't offer one genuine surprise or meaningful moment.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  50
  The cast of mostly unknowns is agreeable if unnecessarily bland, not a Spicoli among them.

  by Manohla Dargis | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  38
  The kind of movie that somehow succeeds in moving very, very slowly even while proceeding at a breakneck pace. It cuts quickly back and forth between nothing and nothing.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »