Time to relive the time that one of my seventh grade classmates brought this movie in for movie day (you can imagine how that went down with a seventh grade class). 

 So we start off by meeting Kate Spencer (Brittany Snow). Kate realizes that John Tucker  (Hallmark Channel Darling Jesse Metcalfe) is dating Carrie (Arielle Kebbel), cheerleader Heather (Ashanti) and Beth (Sophia Bush). John manages this by telling the girls that they must have forbidden romances because he is “forbidden to date” because of basketball season.

Carrie, Heather, Beth, Fleegle, Snorky, Bingo, Drooper, the Professor and Mary Ann find out the truth. Carrie, Heather and Beth decide to pull a PG-rated Alex Forrest on John using Kate.

We then meet Scott Tucker (John’s bro) (Penn Badgley because Penn Badgley made a career out of playing decent guys in teen movies/teen rom-coms before he moved on to psychopathic stalkers). John winds up splitting with Carrie, Heather and Beth; so, they move on to Operation Alex Forrest using Kate. Kate plays hard to get with John. John brags that he is going to have er… ice cream with Kate and Kate gets upset.

Hotel time! Kate has John put on lacy girl’s underwear. John winds up in a teacher’s room, and…

I do not visit this portion of the internet.

However, it is 2006 and they are copying Mean Girls; so, John’s underwear becomes Regina George’s nipple top. 

Kate to John is all “I heard you bragging about the possibility of having er… ice cream… with me.” John wants Kate to be his girlfriend. Kate is becoming disillusioned with Operation Alex Forrest. In the grand tradition of third-act rom-com misunderstandings, John finds out about Operation Alex Forrest.

We end up with a cake fight because the powers that be had no idea how to end this thing. John Tucker continues being John Tucker. Kate and Scott wind up together.

I am not the right age demographic for this movie. Picture a PG-13 teen comedy and you have this movie. A lot of it seemed kind of sexist to me and, if you have teen daughters, steer them clear of the John Tuckers. Snow and her character are likable (I did not really buy that Snow would be a school outcast). The ending is totally rushed.

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