Get Over It! (2001)

Get Over It!  (2001)

Genre(s): Brothers & Sisters, Buddies, Romantic Comedy, School Daze, Teen Angst

Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Ben Foster, Colin Hanks, Melissa Sagemiller, Sisqo, Shane West, Martin Short, Swoosie Kurtz, Ed Begley Jr., Zoe Saldana, Mila Kunis, Carmen Electra; CAMEO(S): Coolio, Colleen (Ann) (Vitamin C) Fitzpatrick; DIRECTED BY: Tommy O'Haver; WRITTEN BY: R. Lee Fleming Jr.; CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Maryse Alberti; MUSIC BY: Steve Bartek; MUSIC SUPERVISOR: Elliot Lurie, Randy Spendlove; ART DIRECTION: Andrew Hull; COSTUMES: Mary Jane Fort; PRODUCTION DESIGN: Robin Standefer. PRODUCER: Michael Burns, Paul Feldsher, Marc Butan, Ignite Entertainment, Morpheus, Miramax Films.

Review: Professes to be thematically related to "A Midsummer Night's Dream," but don't let this get your hopes up. Thankfully, there's little chance of that happening, as the practice of basing teen comedies on Shakespeare plays reached the saturation point not too long ago and audiences realized that a film claiming to have been inspired by the Bard rarely met such high expectations. So it goes with this below-average kiddie comedy, which follows the sad breakup of Berke Landers (Foster), the nice but slightly dull boy, and Alison (Sagemiller), his popular former girlfriend, who soon takes up with Striker (West), the hot new boy in school. Berke's obsession with his old flame seems unrelenting until Kelly (Dunst) enters the scene.