GET OVER IT
So you’ve got two of the sexiest stars in Hollywood — what better way to show them off
Get Over It opens with a guy getting dumped on his soon-to-be-exposed ass and
a pirouetting UPS delivery woman jumping into the arms of dancing garbagemen who are
bounding to the poppy tunes of a gyrating Carmen Electra. It gets better.
Trying to win back girlfriend Allison (Melissa Sagemiller), Berke (Ben Foster) enlists
the sexy Kelly (Kirsten Dunst) as his theater tutor. Allison has fallen into the arms of
Chook (Park Bench), a boy-band-member transfer student with “an accent like Madonna,” and
the two plan on auditioning for the school play, a bastardized musical version of A
Midsummer Night’s Dream. As soon as Berke stops tripping over himself to win back
his woman, he sees Kelly as a hottie rather than his best friend’s snot-nosed little
sister, and he succumbs to her alternately sunny and sultry wiles.
Director Tommy O’Haver (Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss) errs with cheesy dream sequences
and schmaltzy numbers (think stardust and predictable chord changes). But Martin Short’s
ridiculous rendition of the fey has-been theater coach steals the show. This latest addition
to the typical trash heap of teen romantic comedies is, in fact, hard to get over.
— Nina Willdorf