dumb movieThe second stop in my journey through movie reviews of movies filmed on location in the Seattle/Tacoma area is “10 Things I Hate About You.”

Here’s the good news from Amazon.com reviewer Rob O’Connor:

An updated read on William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, Gil Junger’s 10 Things I Hate About You is a teen comedy about two sisters on opposite ends of the social spectrum: one is pretty and popular, the older sister is bitter and vengeful. Family rules dictate that the younger sibling can’t date until the older one has.

Ok, now the bad news. I rented this movie from NetFlix for $4.95. That was $4.94 too much. Either the movie critics in our solar system are unaware of what makes a good movie, or our society’s standards of what makes a movie “good” has dropped a lot. I watched the theatrical trailer first and knew immediately I was in trouble. After watching 10 minutes of the movie itself I took the DVD out of the player and packed it back up in it’s envelope. Then I unplugged the DVD player and threw it in our dumpster. That’s right, I couldn’t watch more than 10 minutes. Really. 10 minutes.

I could have written a better script on toilet paper. Calling it a high school movie fits. There’s no reality or sense of reality in the movie at all. It was like watching a combination of Alice in Wonderland and West Side Story. The humor was not close to being funny and there’s sexual overtones aplenty. They should have called it “10 Things I Like About Perverted Puberty.”

I found it interesting that the movie was very popular at the box office. But I also discovered it is very popular with high school kids. Maybe that’s my problem. I can’t deal with high school kids anymore.

Like, fer shure… Like, this movie is soooooo five minutes ago!

And that’s what the deal is!

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