Review of Can't Hardly Wait (1998) by Brad S — 10 Aug 2011

"Yo, I gotta have sex tonight! I mean peep this - They say here ninety-two percent of the honeys at UCLA are sexually active. Ninety-two of the women in Los Angeles at UCLA walking around going, "Class... or sex? What shall I do?" Ninety-two percent, yo! Hey, you know what that means?".

"If I had known you would've been in here pleasuring yourself".

"Look, there's a mirror right there....you're white.".

Flashback to the notorious school years where the actors and actresses portray the anguish and the ecstasy of high school perfectly! It is absolutely loaded with cameos from the hottest stars before they became famous: Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina), Selma Blair (Cruel Intentions), Sean Patrick Thomas (Cruel Intentions), Breckin Meyer (Ghosts of a Girlfriend Past), Jason Segel (I love you Man), Jerry O'Connell (Scream 2) and many more.

An amusing teen film about a high school guy who has been infatuated with the most popular girl for four years! The whole setting is a graduation party where Amanda (the popular girl played by Jennifer love Hewitt) finds a letter written by the guy that likes her. Amanda has just realized that her football hero boyfriend is a moron who gets off on mooning the cashier at Burger King and giving the freshmen wedgies; and there's Preston (Ethan Embry), the ordinary quiet guy who has idolized her for four years and whom she's never so much as noticed.

Also in this movie is Seth Green as Kenny Fisher (a young white suburbanite who better identifies with African American culture). His timing and his tact (or lack thereof) is ridiculously funny. The way he walks talks and acts is just plain out hilarious. His only goal is to get laid but he ends up in deep conversation with a childhood friend, a dumpy little girl (Lauren Ambrose) he abandoned freshman year because she was in all the "smart" classes and had no money.

Then we have Charlie Korsmo as William Lichter, the geek (Ack! STEREOTYPES!) who crashes the party in a bizarre sabotage attempt, but by the time he leaves the party, he OWNS it. I also like Melissa Joan Hart, who played an annoying yearbook girl who asks everyone to sign her yearbook and Jenna Elfman as the angel stripper, witty as ever.