John Tucker Must Die Must Die

     Those expecting an Oscar-caliber motion picture from John Tucker Must Die will be despondently disappointed. That much is not all too surprising. However, what is surprising is that those expecting a decently funny flick from it will also be let down. There are hardly any laughs in the feature and even less intelligence. Unfortunately, even for a stupid movie John Tucker Must Die is incredibly dumb.

     The movie fails to follow its own general rules, contradicting itself at every turn. At one point, a relatively intelligent young woman waits for the male lead in his vehicle and the next scene she feigns worry that a stranger is stalking her when she sees the vehicle outside her house. John Tucker Must Die is filled with ridiculously unrealistic events even for teenage cinematic fare standards.

     John Tucker Must Die tells the story of a group of girls who are being cheated on by the most popular guy in school – John Tucker, played by Jesse Metcalf of the television soap opera Passions. The girls, played by Ashanti, Sophia Bush and Arielle Kebbel enlist the level-headed Kate, played by Brittany Snow, to flirt with John and quickly break his heart as an act of revenge.

     Things go awry, though, when Kate begins to fall for John, despite her single mother (Jenny McCarthy) constantly bringing home unreliable guys. This upsets the three girls and John’s brother, played by Penn Badgley, who has a crush on Kate. Only time will tell if Kate is able to complete her task without becoming completely smitten by John as well as hated by the entire high school student body.

     The movie looks amusing and there are a few clever ideas in the midst of the main plot. Still, there is not enough to make John Tucker Must Die worth seeing. The acting fails, the character development stinks, the jokes are beyond lame and, worst of all, the happy ending of this dark comedy falls completely flat. Even easily pleased teenage girls won’t be love-struck by John Tucker Must Die