Can't Hardly WaitCan't Hardly Wait is a pleasant film about love, lust, and lots of lager at an end of school booze up. Tried and trusted stereotypical characters romp about trying to score what and who they can in the tradition of American Graffiti, Dazed and Confused, Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Porky's.It seems that teenagers haven't changed much in the last decade or so, at least on the Hollywood screen, and neither has the genre, with high energy exuberance mixing liberally with the odd nerd, jock, geek, Yearbook Girl and assorted average Joes and Mary's who are coming to terms with looming responsibilities and even stronger drugs. So we have Preston (Ethan Embry) a shy boy in love with the class good looker Amanda (Jennifer Love Hewitt of Scream fame). But she's the long standing girlfriend of the school grid iron star and jock Mike (Peter Facinelli). He dumps Amanda though, planning to score some real women at college. Meanwhile cute and intelligent Lauren (Denise Fleming) doesn't even want to be at the party but still gets locked in a toilet with white, small Kenny (Seth Green) who affects being a much larger black rapper. Around all of this, as Dame Edna would say, "the children get their rocks off." We're presented with a series of moral fables about responsibility and growing up. Can't Hardly Wait is annoying for its first half but then warms considerably as the personalities of the characters take mostly turns for the better. And there's a great show stopping version of the Guns and Roses anthem Paradise City by one of the nerds. Can't Hardly Wait isn't a bad way at all of spending 2 hours of your precious time 3 Not Bad Flys |