Get Over It

This movie's original title, Getting Over Allison, was apparently deemed far too creative for an utterly forgettable assembly-line teen romantic comedy, but at least somebody was making an effort. That somebody would be Tommy O'Haver, the clever hand behind the zestful gay romantic comedy Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss. Here, O'Haver casts genuinely capable actors, with Ben Foster (Liberty Heights) playing the generic lovelorn high school boy, and Kirsten Dunst, playing his best friend's sister--the girl he inadvertently falls in love with (surprise!) while trying to win back his childhood sweetheart (adorable newcomer Melissa Sagemiller). But the lazy screenwriting usurps story from A Midsummer Night's Dream (the play the kids are currently rehearsing for at school), and while this is passably amusing and occasionally creative, it's ultimately too formulaic to be worth the watch. Not a necessary purchase. (R. Blackwelder)