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Films / Can't Hardly Wait

Can't Hardly Wait takes place right after a High School graduation, where the rumour runs rife of an after-grad party. The anticipation of drugs, alcohol and sex amongst the school leavers, and the new found news that Amanda Beckett (Love Hewitt) is now suddenly single, makes for an interesting opener..

The film is actually a lot better then the basic premise and indeed the cinema trailer makes out. It combines humour with romance, common sense with stupidity, and a few moral issues thrown in for good measure.

The basic storyline goes like this: Everyone at school is going to an after graduation party being thrown by the girl with the thighs. Enter the dysfunctional school goers of:

• Amanda Beckett (Love Hewitt), the only normal one it seems
  
• Mike Dexter (Peter Facinelli), who has just dumped Amanda in the hope he will get excessive amounts of sex in college
  
• Preston Meyers (Ethan Embry), who has wanted the girl that Mike Dexter just dumped for the last 4 years
  
• William Lichter (Charlie Korsmo), who hates Mike for doing stuff like that to the girl he just dumped, and also for tormenting him for the last 4 years
  
• Denise Fleming (Lauren Ambrose), who used to 'date' the guy that has liked the girl that Mike has just dumped for the past 4 years
  
• Kenny Fisher (Seth Green), who used to play with Denise, but now wants to play with all of the girls including the girl that Mike just dumped as well any other free agents.

Confused? :) Throughout the never-ending party each of these characters interact with each other on different levels, and really does illustrate to some degree what happens at parties on a social basis.

The film showed some interesting filming techniques that you wouldn't normally attribute to this sort of picture, and also a good opening sequence introducing all of the characters in an interesting manner.

Jennifer Love Hewitt played her part quite well, being girl every other girl hated: because she's beautiful and had Mike Dexter. You don['t see too much of Love Hewitt in the film as it centred around a few characters, not just one or two. Overall though, she gave a very good performance, especially near the end of the film when you see her character in a lot more scope.

Overall, the movie was quite well made, and had some quite humorous moments.

Rating: 3.5/5

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