Get Over It
March. 08,2001 PG-13When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long girlfriend, Allison, he soon begins to lose it. But with the help of his best friend Felix's sister Kelly, he follows his ex into the school's spring musical. Thus ensues a love triangle loosely based upon Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", where Berke is only to find himself getting over Allison and beginning to fall for Kelly.
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This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
This was by no means terrible, but I was underwhelmed by it. I think the main flaw is that the crude jokes were really annoying. We didn't need to have all this stuff about guy's butts being shown and women accidentally losing their bras. That really did weigh it down. Also, some of these characters (especially the leader teacher) can be pretty annoying. With all that being said, it certainly had its good points. I'll give it credit for having a story about the actual play in the actual movie that's reenacting the actual play. That was pretty interesting.We even get this nice "September" dance number at the very end. Still, the bad definitely outweighed the good. I liked how I could recognize Kirsten Dunst. With me watching more and more movies all the time, I can recognize more actors and actresses. I even found the main character to be pretty likable. I guess it was too short. When you make a Shakespeare adaptation, it should probably be more epic. I guess it's mostly harmless. I realize that I'm not into teen movies at all. **
Get Over It is a 2001 movie starring Ben Foster,Spiderman's Kristen Dunst,A Walk To Remember's Shane West and Avatar star Zoe Saldana and tells the tale of a young man named Berke(Foster)who's childhood sweetheart wants to call it quits. He of course is heartbroken over it and like what the title says he just has to get over it. But when he finds out that there is a school play going on he decides to audition for it as he found out that his former flame is now going out with a Backstreet Boy clone singer called Skitter(played by Shane West sporting a rather unusual British accent that sometimes sounds like an Aussie accent from time to time)whom Berke met earlier on in the film. But things get even more complicated for Berke when we asks his Best Friend's(Colin Hanks the son of Tom Hanks)sister Kelly(played by Kristen Dunst) and later sorta falls for her as she is helping Berke with his lines. But when his former flame later wants to get back together with him,who must he choose?Bottom line this movie is no masterpiece or the best film ever made,but there are some scenes that will have you laughing so hard like Kelly's dog humping a ball,or an accident prone who ruins a dinner date that she was in with Berke. Check it out and see what you can make out of it.Also keep an eye out for Sisqo(a former singer from the early 00s) as Ben Foster's other friend. 6 out of 10.
When high school student Berke Landers is dumped by his girlfriend Allison, in a desperate attempt to win her back he auditions for the school drama production, a musical version of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", even though he has no experience of either singing or acting. Fortunately, his best friend Felix has a musically gifted sister, Kelly, and Berke enlists her help to get himself through the audition. Initially, he only succeeds in winning the part of Third Attendant, but after an accident puts out of action the student initially cast in the role, he finds himself promoted to the leading part of Lysander, playing opposite Allison's Hermia. The other two leading roles of Helena and Demetrius are played, predictably enough, by Kelly and Allison's new boyfriend, Striker. In an equally predictable plot twist, Kelly finds herself falling for Berke. The result is a love-triangle which loosely parallels the one in Shakespeare's play.This film is sometimes referred to as a "teen comedy", but it is rather more innocent than some other recent films in that genre. Apart from a running joke about an over-sexed dog, there is little of the grossness that characterised films like "American Pie" or "The Sweetest Thing". If those are typical "teen comedies", "Get Over It" is perhaps best categorised as a romantic comedy whose leading characters just happen to be teenagers. There is, however, plenty of humour, much of it directed a the film's adult characters, such as Berke's embarrassingly liberal parents, the sort of middle-aged swingers who still think they are teenagers themselves, or Desmond Forrest Oates, the hilariously camp and manic theatrical director, or the glamorous but terminally accident-prone Dora-Lynn (played by real-life supermodel Kylie Bax), still at school in her twenties because she spent six years in a coma.If there is a moral to this story, it is that a good heart is more important than good looks. Kirsten Dunst's Kelly, although she has plenty of girl-next-door charm, is not a classical beauty like Melissa Sagemiller's Allison and Berke is rather nerdish compared to Striker. (In British slang the term "berk" means a fool; I wonder if the scriptwriters were aware of this when they chose the name). The unsympathetic characters tend to use "loser!" as a term of abuse for anyone they hold in contempt, but at the end of the day it is the handsome but arrogant Striker and the beautiful but self-centred Allison who end up the losers in love. Allison ditches Striker when she discovers that he is no more capable of being faithful to her than she was capable of being faithful to Berke. She hopes that she can resume her relationship with Berke, but it is clear that he will choose Kelly, who loves him for himself, over Allison who merely regards him as a consolation prize because she cannot get the boy she really wants.Shakespeare's comedies frequently end with several weddings, and this structure is parallelled in "Get Over It". Berke ends up with Kelly, Felix and Dora-Lynn fall for one another and a third romance develops between two other students. Even the dog finds a lady friend. One might think that a musical aimed at teenagers would be dominated by loud rock music, but the music is often surprisingly lyrical, especially the main song "Dream of Me", supposedly written by Kelly herself. (Although it did perhaps need a rather stronger voice than Kirsten Dunst's to put it over). "Get Over It" may not be Shakespeare, but it is an amiable, good-hearted and often amusing teenage rom-com. 6/10
This movie is infectiously brilliant. I saw it at a camp one summer, and then showed it to a friend when I got home. She immediately went out and bought it. It's a bucketful of laughs. The acting is incredible, the soundtrack catchy, and the script is a riot.Ben Foster just oozes adorable vulnerability, and, though he's not the most attractive guy, it's easy to see why first Allison and then Kelly fall for him. The story relies heavily on his emotions and the humor, and, in my opinion, that's really the way a story should be told.This movie keeps me in stitches and even though it's slightly predictable- hey, teen movie here, guys- it more than makes up for it.I love this movie so much that I've watched it more times than I've seen The Lion King. If you enjoyed 10 Things I Hate About You, Drive Me Crazy, or Clueless, you'll love this movie.