Stop Working, Start Living.
 Nov 18th, 2005
Advantages:
Brilliantly funny in places, especially involving Jason Schwartzman .
Disadvantages:
Boring romance plot and loses some of its inventiveness with same - old jokes .
Recommendable:
Yes
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Review rated by 17 Ciao members on average: helpful 
Three college students, Dave, Jeff and Sam scam and cheat their way through college, but campus weirdo Ethan finds out and threatens to reveal all unless they help him succeed with the object of his desires, Angela. The trio, led by Dave (Devon Sawa-Final Destination) do their best to make Ethan (Jason Schwartzman-Rushmore), or "Cool Ethan" as he likes to be known, as appealing as possible to the beautiful Angela (James King-Pearl Harbour). Quite predictably Dave and Angela fall for each other, infuriating Ethan and jeapordising the trio's college existence. Then begins the process of the three attemtping appease and at the same time discredit Ethan.
The only real dissapointment in my opinion is the romance between Dave and Angela which is boring and rambling, but throughout the monotony of this are some very funny and ingenious situations, mainly involving Ethan as the highly unstable, almost psychotic stalker. In this role Schwartzman steals the show as the wannabe cool guy on campus, which leads to hilarious cosequences. Although the film features some invention in its humour, it can't fully break the teen gross out mould, with its dose of S&M and an encounter between Ethan and a randy semi-naked elderly woman in a hospital. On the whole its a movie worth watching for the brilliant pieces of comedy involving Schwartzman even if you do have to sit through a pretty dull romance scenario. Even if the comedy does occaisionally lapse into gross out its relatively mild compared to other similar comedies such as Van Wilder. Not as good as American Pie or Roadtrip, but then few films of this genre are.
As for the extras on the DVD, these are minimal and disappointing There are two trailers and a some production notes which are fairly insignificant and after reading the first page I lost interest. The DVD offers Dolby Digital 5.1 with only an English audio and English subtitles.
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19.11.2005 17:50
A good first review, I look forward to reading more xx
19.11.2005 12:04
Hiya, now it's much better, still not perfect, but I don't want to count peas ... Well, seems to be a typical "English"-DVD, most of the reviews in here are like that, can't believe that ... In Germany most of the DVD's have German, English and 2-7 more languages and many more languages for subtitles, also there's often plenty of bonus-material or there's a limited version to find extra ... Best regards, Sven (Zoobremia)
19.11.2005 00:14
Not bad for a first review, but I still think this needs more information for the higher ratings. Happy to re-rate if you add to this, just put a note in my guestbook to let me know when you're done.