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Teenager Berke (Ben Foster), is dumped by his childhood sweetheart Allison (Melissa
Sagemiller) who gets friendly with Striker (Shane West), the handsome newcomer at their school. Heartbroken and hoping to win her back, he turns to his best friend's little
sister Kelly (Kirsten Dunst) by landing a role opposite his ex-girlfriend in the school production of A Mid-summer Night's Rockin' Eve.
Aimed at the teen market, Get Over It has the appeal of those frothy drinks Filipino
teeners are crazy over – Zagu, Orbitz, Pearly Shakes, etc. – nice to look at, coolly packaged, but are all froth and sugar with hardly any nourishment offered. The plot is
as old as creation, and even the intended gimmick – the Shakespeare on campus element – is too tired to freshen up the story. Some parts may be entertaining or amusing
(like the fantasy sequences and the funny moments coming from Swoosie Kurtz and Ed Begley, Jr. as Berke's sexually liberated parents).
However funny and entertaining some viewers may find the film, parents should be on the red
alert for numerous scenes, values and material that youngsters could find attractive and then imitate. These are instances of sexual material and humor, sexually related
dialogue (including those found in songs' lyrics), scenes of high school students making out and drinking, profanity, etc. The movie also resorts to yucky instances and toilet
humor that could disgust sensitive viewers. Samples: Berke falls into a pile of horse manure, the horse farts and urinates on Berke's face; a drunken student vomits into a
punch bowl from which others later drink, not knowing what had happened, etc. Young people who tend to see crude language as smart will also have countless samples to adopt
and spread around. There is also a lot of semi-nudity, made eye-catching by the use of revealing costumes and bikinis. Berke's "sexually liberated parents," particularly the
mother, encourage masturbation for the downhearted son and even gives him a packet of condoms for use when a party is held at their house.
It's been rated PG-13 by other boards, but with all these details that do not escape CINEMA's
scanner – and many others too numerous to include here –this movie is suitable only for mature viewers 18 and above.
(Date reviewed: June 15, 2001)
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