I wanted to like this but couldn't

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Timothy (Tanner Cohen) is a rugby player in school and openly gay. The other guys treat him like dirt. Then he's cast as Puck in the school's production of "A Midsummer's Night Dream". He finds a flower that makes the person he squirts it at fall in love magically with the first person they see. He starts off by making the whole rugby team AND the coach fall in love with other men...but things quickly get out of hand. Oh yes--and there are musical numbers!

Now I DO applaud what this film is doing--updating (kind of) Shakespeare's play but I didn't like it. For starters Cohen isn't exactly a good actor. He seems too nervous--but he sings beautifully. The humor here also seems too forced--I think I smiled once. The plot also derails more than once and things stop making sense. However, seeing young men openly kissing and making out was hot and very romantic, the musical numbers were great and (Cohen aside) the acting was perfect. Still I was bored and annoyed more than once. It's message is great (accept people for who they are) but the execution is clumsy. I can only give this a 6.

score 6/10

preppy-3 23 June 2008

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