When I was in KL and catching movies whenever I had the free time, I saw the trailer for this movie a couple of times and was pretty intrigued. The trailer was funny, albeit a little predictable. But I did want to watch it, it just wasn't at the top of my list. I picked Up! over this movie. Haha.
Because I've already watched most of the recent movies (the result of being on holiday), I Love You Beth Cooper seemed to be the most obvious choice of movie for all of us. Except for one thing: The people at GSC Gurney really mean it when they say that a movie is not for those under 18. Apparently they would refuse entry to those who are underage if they're trying to get into a movie with an 18PL rating. And apparently, Alison has tried sneaking in before, and failing.
The people here at GSC really couldn't care less even if a seven year old were to watch an 18PL movie. Actually, they don't even look at our tickets. All they do is reach their hands out for our tickets, tear off half of the ticket, return the stubs to us and with an "Enjoy your movie!" they wave us off.
Yeah, KL is definitely better than Penang, in terms of entertainment.
So when we decided to watch this movie, Alison was all worried that they won't let her in to watch it. But then one of us hatched this brilliant plan of hiding Alison among us (because she's tiny!) and just walk in all together. That's how desperate we were to watch a movie. It's so boring at Gurney Plaza. Seriously.
And we managed to get in! They didn't even bother to look at our tickets la. I think they only check properly if all the people going in look seriously underage. Like Alison. Poor thing! The cinema was so empty. I know why. Cuz the movie wasn't that excellent after all.
It starts off with Denis Cooverman announcing his love to head cheerleader Beth Cooper in his valedictorian speech. Along the way, he inadvertently ran his mouth on his classmates. The jock being such a bully because he was loved a little too much (geddit?) when he was a kid, or the stuck up rich girl, or his best friend, Rich, who should really come out of the closet, or older army men who should grow up and get a proper grown up girlfriend instead of hanging out at their old high school, and dating the head cheerleader.
Naturally, it causes chaos. But Beth thought it was cute, although Kevin (aforementioned creepy army dude) is livid and wants to squash Denis. However, Denis makes up a story of having a raging graduation party at his house later in the evening and invites Beth.
Then Denis' parents leave him alone at home so that he can enjoy his graduation party. But before leaving, Cooverman Sr gives this embarrassing speech about how the boys should get laid and that he has condoms on his side table. Makes me glad my parent are no where near being that liberal.
But as time ticks by and no one shows out, we confirm what we already know. Denis and Rich are social pariahs. But thennnn a little blue car comes crazily up Denis' street, and Beth flanked by Cammy and Treece arrive at Denis' dead party.
The boys try to impress the girls by bringing out the champagne that Mr Cooverman left for them and Rich goes even further by claiming that the champagne that they have is Kristal champagne.
Just as things start to become less lame and Rich brings out the condoms, Beth's insane psycho army boyfriend Kevin shows up in a Hummer (Hummer!) and wrecks his entire house in his quest to squash Denis. I liked how all three of the army men moved in complete synchronicity, like they're some sort of android or something. Funny!
Then Beth and her friends aka The Trinity help Denis and Rich escape from the army robots, they decided to go to the woods and drink a little. However, being high school graduates, they're underage and therefore, not allowed to buy alcohol. I, on the other hand, am legal and can buy drinks! I know it's not related, but I'm legal I'm legal I'm legal! Yeah, I haven't gotten off that horse yet.
So then Beth offers to give the dude working at the counter a lil something-something in exchange for selling them the beer. And Denis' perception of Beth is completely shattered because to him, Beth is like some sort of perfect cheerleader but now he gets to see the ugly side of her and he's clearly trying to sort out what he feels.
They head to Old Tabacco Road where Denis and Beth talk about why he fell for her. Reason: she's pretty and he got fantasized so much about her that he made her up to be some sort of perfect girl in his head.
And Cammy, Treece and Rich went off to tip cows. I don't understand this cow tipping thing. I mean, I don't see the draw. See, it's supposedly very easy to tip cows over because they sleep upright and are stupid. But! Lots of really smart people have looked into this myth, and busted it. It's only possible to tip over a cow if the cow just stands there and allows you to tip it over. I mean, think about it: If someone comes up to you and started pushing against you, would you just stand there and take it? Hell no! You would try to regain your footing, push back or even just outright attack them. So you think the cows would just stand there? Most probably they'll headbutt you. And they have big heads. That's gotta hurt.
Or if you're unlucky like Rich, Cammy and Treese, you step in cow pies. So after being forced to leave his new Gene Kelly-esque shoes behind (I mean, who would want to ferry around a guy who smells literally like shit??) the five of them leave to go to the stuck-up rich girl, Valli Wooly's party. They meet Kevin there again and he proceeds to beat Denis up in the most humiliating way ever: In accordance to the music's beats.
Then Beth comes to the rescue, crashing Kevin's Hummer into the side of Valli's house.
After that, they break into the school. The Trinity perform a cheer routine for Denis, and Rich joins in. It's not really wise to cheer when you're trying to convince everyone that you're straight. Someone should really tell that to Rich. They then head to the shower, where Denis again encounters Kevin. However, this time Rich comes to the rescue and they have this weird wet towel fight. The flashback scene is funny, Rich gets bullied by a bunch of kids whacking him with wet towels, so from then on, he practices fighting with wet towels. Aim, accuracy, force executed, pain levels and all that, I guess.
They then go to Beth's father's cabin where Treece and Cammy try to prove that Rich is gay, and Rich refuses to admit that he's gay, which results in a threesome. Beth and Denis, however, just sit outside and watch the sun rise. This is where the movie rapidly goes downhill because Malaysia's censorship board cut out a lot of things, and I'm pretty sure there's an alternative ending, and we got the lame end of the movie.
It's very disappointing. When I first saw the trailer, I actually thought that this could be a fun movie. Turns out, the movie was too ambitious and tried to put on too many things, which just leads to a whole mess of a movie.
I guess I'll give it a 2/5. Don't bother watching it in the cinemas. Save your money for something like Gamer, which I'm pretty sure will not have a lot of story, but a lot of action. Yay!
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