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Munchie
Released in VHS Tape by New Concorde Home Video (22 October, 2002)
MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Director: Jim Wynorski
Average review score:

Sometimes You Have To Help People In Spite of Themselves!
Munchie is one of the best movies ever! Every time I see it I melt with pleasure for the inguinitive genius which Munchie gives my soul. I'm writing this review after seeing Munchie, the best movie of eternity of particles which float upon this planet in the cosmic galaxy, and Supertroopers which is the worst movie ever to have even been thought of eternity of particles which float upon this planet in the cosmic galaxy. I saw Supertroopers and my mind turned to mush. The only thing that kept our sanity was the fact that we had just purchased Munchie so we could enjoy the best movie of eternity of particles which float upon this planet in the cosmic galaxy whenever our hearts desired to do so. Who knew that you could buy: the fountain of orgasmic, mind-expanding, experimental, kitten-loving, grizzly old man kitten loving, Waking Life loving, Audrey Taotou (Amiele)loving, Incubus in Esperanto starring William Shantering loving, Matt and Charlieing, not DaNthonying, electric shocking, rocking, I'm only mocking, To Kill a Birdmocking, frocking, putting in the clocking Signs blocking, Importance of Being Jocking, Glee Clubing, and doneking, youth experience at Family Video for just $4.33!
First and foremost everyone in particles which float upon this planet in the cosmic galaxy should see this movie because you will love it, you will love the 70's, the green glowing while talking, Gage's fantasying, the hello my baby hello my darling, the pizza flying, the alien and kid partying, the grade changing, the locker beating, the Munchie tricking, Munchie's Operation: Desert Storm-a-ing, the partying with a keg-a-ing, the car-a-flying, the arresting, the open ending for a sequeling, and the Matt and Charlie applauding and last but not least, the sequel writing!
In conclusion, we believe we will leave with the sweet thought in your mouth that Munchie is God's gift to the particles which float upon this planet in the cosmic galaxy, if you have seen Munchie, God Bless YOU and if you haven't seen Munchie, I wish you a pleasureing journey (SpaceFans) through the land of Munchieville!

Munch-tastic!
Back in those magical halycon days that are known as the "Mid-80's," a movie about a species of ghouls run amuk from late-night snacking was released to the North American public. That movie was Gremlins. It was quickly embraced by the public as a masterpiece and subsequently became a well-loved and undeniable classic. Not surprisingly, other movie companies and producers, seeing the huge success of Gremlins, were anxious to get in on the action and "munch" a piece of the lucrative cinematic pie. A whole slew of movies about small, terrifying, bloodthirsty, yet cute, cuddly critters inundated the public. The most popular of these was Ghoulies--like Gremlins, a trilogy. Until 1992, Hollywood and the public mistakenly thought that this genre was dead. But then came Munchie, which set movie-making special effects back at least twenty-years. In many ways, Munchie was both a spring-board for the actors involved and a coup d' grace. As you may already know, this was Jennifer Love Hewitt's first movie. And it may have been Loni Anderson's last. After Munchie, not even network televsion was willing to cast Amderson in a saturday night made-for-tv flick. Dom Deloise, who lent his fresh wit and unmistakeable voice to Munchie, was little affected in the way of his carrer. It seemed that he was too far removed from the American public's mind. After all, he hadn't appeared to a mass-audience since he occupied one of the squares on Hollywood Squares. That was some time ago. I don't believe that, at the time of its release, the public was ready for Munchie. Despite its painfully obvious influences, in many ways it was ahead of its time. The flying pizza--not "pizza's" as was claimed on the back of the video box--the parties, the antics, the hijinx, the pranks, and, above all, the love and friendship, all presaged the New Age movement that's presently sweeping the country. It was no accident that the character Munchie played an active role in the formation of nearly every ancient society's mythology and mores--as was touched base on in the film. Not-so-special and yes, even deplorable, effects aside, Munchie was a masterpiece, it was an example of the power of straight-to-video releases. Despite its technical flaws, Munchie was a testament to the power of humanity and love, and a pleasant reminder that we should all make an effort to look beyond the superficial and the venner, and that beneath these lies the essentials of life: love, happiness and understanding.

I loved it!
Not only is Jennifer Love Hewitt in it, its a great movie for everybody. I give it two enthusiastic thumbs up!


Home For Christmas
Released in VHS Tape by New Concorde Home Video (16 November, 1999)
MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Director: Jim Wynorski
Average review score:

Mom & Daughter
Two great actresses! A great family movie!

Great jobs done by Hewitt & Hessman.
Hewitt & Hessman were nicely matched for this comedy.

Wonderful!
This is a great movie! Actually, it kinda depends on your tastes. If you love heartwarming, wonderful Christmas tales, then you will love this movie! Even if you don't, JLH fans, you might want to watch it, just for the heck of seeing Jennifer Love Hewitt when she was younger!


Little Miss Millions
Released in VHS Tape by New Horizons Home Video (09 May, 1995)
MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Director: Jim Wynorski
Average review score:

Mom & Daughter
Two great actresses! A great family movie!

Great jobs done by Hewitt & Hessman.
Hewitt & Hessman were nicely matched for this comedy.

Wonderful!
This is a great movie! Actually, it kinda depends on your tastes. If you love heartwarming, wonderful Christmas tales, then you will love this movie! Even if you don't, JLH fans, you might want to watch it, just for the heck of seeing Jennifer Love Hewitt when she was younger!


Can't Hardly Wait
Released in VHS Tape by Columbia/Tristar Studios (31 October, 2000)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Directors: Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont
Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt
This underrated teen comedy from 1998 is guilty of being a proud underachiever, and it doesn't bring anything new to the genre, but look closely and you'll find the makings of a much better movie buried under all the keg-party antics. The basic story is typical for this kind of comedy. A young, aspiring writer named Preston (Ethan Embry) has been lusting after class beauty Amanda (Jennifer Love Hewitt, from TV's Party of Five) for four years of high school, but he's never had the nerve to tell her. Now that they're about to graduate he's finally worked up the courage to write her a soul-baring love letter. At the raucous graduation keg party that takes up most of the movie's 98 minutes, Preston agonizes while Amanda's selfish jock ex-boyfriend tries to win her back, and delivering his love letter turns out to be more difficult than he ever imagined. What's interesting about Can't Hardly Wait has little to do with its attractive leads, however. The most engagingly real and entertaining characters are the misfits who show up in the subplots, including a geek (Charlie Korsmo) who turns into the life of the party, and a pair of old friends (Seth Green, Lauren Ambrose) who confront each other about their mutual needs and insecurities. There are some really good scenes between these two, and this modest movie has a few other pleasant surprises up its sleeve. That doesn't make it particularly good, but it does make it an agreeable waste of time. --Jeff Shannon
Average review score:

a feel good party movie
this one you can stand if your paying attention to the leads. the extras nearly trash this one. Seth Green is the scene chewer as Kenny Fisher, the kid whos a wannabe gangsta and his scenes are the highlights. Ethan Embry is wonderful, Lauren Ambrose is bitchy but thats sorta hot, Jennifer Love Hewitt is a bore sometimes but shes easily good, Charlie Korsmo as the geek is hilarious when he stands up and dances and sings to Guns and Roses Paradise City and Peter Facinelli is the mbodiment of all jocks. the party scene is nice but some extras like the annoying Melissa Joan Hart, Jerry O'Connell, Jenna Elfman and all the other jocks nearly burn this one into the ashpahlt.

favorite line
Kenny Fisher(Seth Green)- are you crying.oh no baby please!, you are far to fine to look so sad.

Can't Get Enough Of This Movie!
Can't Hardly Wait presents a true to life look at high school.It shows that no matter how you were in highschool(geek, jock, prep), it really won't matter in later life. Jennifer Love Hewitt (I Know What You Did Last Summer, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Party Of Five) plays the beautiful Amanda Beckett. Her boyfriend, Mike Dexter, dumps her on the last day of high school thinking there's something better at college. Preston Myers, played by Ethan Embrey (Disturbing Behavior) finally gets up the courage to give her a love letter telling her his feelings about her since she is now single. In a side story(one of many) Kenny Fisherman, played by Seth Green(Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Idle Hands) hooks up with his once friend, Denise. You neeeed to see this movie!

Can't Hardly Wait
The first 20 minutes or so of this plotless romp about a post-graduation all-night party is torturous, at least for anyone who isn't a moron or a masochist. But once you're pulled into the forced fun of the piece and accept all the noise, the pain subsides into something merely blinding and numbing. You feel as wrecked as the partying kids on the screen.

Co-written and co-directed by a pair of newcomers, Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, "Can't Hardly Wait" (which was titled "The Party" up until about a month ago) is essentially a shameless rip-off of Richard Linklater's 1993 film, "Dazed and Confused," an insightful period piece set in 1976 about suburban Texas teens carousing on the last day of school.

There are also bits and pieces here from "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," "American Graffiti," "Animal House," "16 Candles" and even the ancient "Bye Bye Birdie," but most of the ideas come from Linklater's movie.

We get the "Bye Bye Birdie" connection right off when Elfont and Kaplan stage a non-singing variation on "The Telephone Hour" from that film, in which one teen gossips to another, spreading the word that the graduating class' golden couple, Top Jock Mike (Peter Facinelli) and Homecoming Queen Amanda (Jennifer Love Hewitt), have broken up. Mike is going off to college and now has no time for high school girls.

This leaves the field open for Preston (Ethan Embry), an introverted, brainy kid who has nursed a crush on Amanda for four years and now plans to take action. Interwoven throughout the all-nighter are several missed encounters between Amanda and Preston, as well as subplots about a white kid who thinks he's African American (Seth Green), a geek (Charlie Korsmo) and his two sycophants (characters who are direct steals from "16 Candles") and the class cynic (Lauren Ambrose), the only intelligent person on hand, whose favorite quote is Oscar Wilde's "A true friend stabs you in the front."

Actually, the young cast works wonders with this material. There really isn't a bad performance here, with Embry, Ambrose and especially Hewitt turning in impressively self-composed work. The filmmakers tease us with Hewitt's character, at first only showing her in bits and pieces (sort of like Godzilla in its movie). But once Hewitt gets her first movie-star close-up, the audience went wild and applauded as if she were the Meryl Streep of Teen Trash.

Hewitt is a sweet, pleasing presence who almost redeems the junkiness of the movie surrounding her.

There are also cameos by TV's Jenna Elfman ("Dharma and Greg") as an erotic dancer and Melissa Joan Hart ("Sabrina, the Teenage Witch"), who's funny as "The Yearbook Girl," a dweeb intent on getting as many autographs in her yearbook as possible. And Jerry O'Connell ("Scream 2") pops up as a former high-school prince who has gone to pot.

He's playing the role that Matthew McConaughey nailed so perfectly in "Dazed and Confused," a film also noted for early screen appearances by Ben Affleck, Parker Posey, Rene Zellweger, Milla Jovovich, Rory Cochrane, Jason London and Joey Lauren Adams. You might want to check it out. It achieves what "Can't Hardly Wait" only timidly hints at -- the giddy class structure among teenagers.

It also makes partying look like a lot more fun.


Can't Hardly Wait
Released in VHS Tape by Columbia/Tristar Studios (15 June, 1999)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Directors: Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont
Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt
This underrated teen comedy from 1998 is guilty of being a proud underachiever, and it doesn't bring anything new to the genre, but look closely and you'll find the makings of a much better movie buried under all the keg-party antics. The basic story is typical for this kind of comedy. A young, aspiring writer named Preston (Ethan Embry) has been lusting after class beauty Amanda (Jennifer Love Hewitt, from TV's Party of Five) for four years of high school, but he's never had the nerve to tell her. Now that they're about to graduate he's finally worked up the courage to write her a soul-baring love letter. At the raucous graduation keg party that takes up most of the movie's 98 minutes, Preston agonizes while Amanda's selfish jock ex-boyfriend tries to win her back, and delivering his love letter turns out to be more difficult than he ever imagined. What's interesting about Can't Hardly Wait has little to do with its attractive leads, however. The most engagingly real and entertaining characters are the misfits who show up in the subplots, including a geek (Charlie Korsmo) who turns into the life of the party, and a pair of old friends (Seth Green, Lauren Ambrose) who confront each other about their mutual needs and insecurities. There are some really good scenes between these two, and this modest movie has a few other pleasant surprises up its sleeve. That doesn't make it particularly good, but it does make it an agreeable waste of time. --Jeff Shannon
Average review score:

a feel good party movie
this one you can stand if your paying attention to the leads. the extras nearly trash this one. Seth Green is the scene chewer as Kenny Fisher, the kid whos a wannabe gangsta and his scenes are the highlights. Ethan Embry is wonderful, Lauren Ambrose is bitchy but thats sorta hot, Jennifer Love Hewitt is a bore sometimes but shes easily good, Charlie Korsmo as the geek is hilarious when he stands up and dances and sings to Guns and Roses Paradise City and Peter Facinelli is the mbodiment of all jocks. the party scene is nice but some extras like the annoying Melissa Joan Hart, Jerry O'Connell, Jenna Elfman and all the other jocks nearly burn this one into the ashpahlt.

favorite line
Kenny Fisher(Seth Green)- are you crying.oh no baby please!, you are far to fine to look so sad.

Can't Get Enough Of This Movie!
Can't Hardly Wait presents a true to life look at high school.It shows that no matter how you were in highschool(geek, jock, prep), it really won't matter in later life. Jennifer Love Hewitt (I Know What You Did Last Summer, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Party Of Five) plays the beautiful Amanda Beckett. Her boyfriend, Mike Dexter, dumps her on the last day of high school thinking there's something better at college. Preston Myers, played by Ethan Embrey (Disturbing Behavior) finally gets up the courage to give her a love letter telling her his feelings about her since she is now single. In a side story(one of many) Kenny Fisherman, played by Seth Green(Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Idle Hands) hooks up with his once friend, Denise. You neeeed to see this movie!

Can't Hardly Wait
The first 20 minutes or so of this plotless romp about a post-graduation all-night party is torturous, at least for anyone who isn't a moron or a masochist. But once you're pulled into the forced fun of the piece and accept all the noise, the pain subsides into something merely blinding and numbing. You feel as wrecked as the partying kids on the screen.

Co-written and co-directed by a pair of newcomers, Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, "Can't Hardly Wait" (which was titled "The Party" up until about a month ago) is essentially a shameless rip-off of Richard Linklater's 1993 film, "Dazed and Confused," an insightful period piece set in 1976 about suburban Texas teens carousing on the last day of school.

There are also bits and pieces here from "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," "American Graffiti," "Animal House," "16 Candles" and even the ancient "Bye Bye Birdie," but most of the ideas come from Linklater's movie.

We get the "Bye Bye Birdie" connection right off when Elfont and Kaplan stage a non-singing variation on "The Telephone Hour" from that film, in which one teen gossips to another, spreading the word that the graduating class' golden couple, Top Jock Mike (Peter Facinelli) and Homecoming Queen Amanda (Jennifer Love Hewitt), have broken up. Mike is going off to college and now has no time for high school girls.

This leaves the field open for Preston (Ethan Embry), an introverted, brainy kid who has nursed a crush on Amanda for four years and now plans to take action. Interwoven throughout the all-nighter are several missed encounters between Amanda and Preston, as well as subplots about a white kid who thinks he's African American (Seth Green), a geek (Charlie Korsmo) and his two sycophants (characters who are direct steals from "16 Candles") and the class cynic (Lauren Ambrose), the only intelligent person on hand, whose favorite quote is Oscar Wilde's "A true friend stabs you in the front."

Actually, the young cast works wonders with this material. There really isn't a bad performance here, with Embry, Ambrose and especially Hewitt turning in impressively self-composed work. The filmmakers tease us with Hewitt's character, at first only showing her in bits and pieces (sort of like Godzilla in its movie). But once Hewitt gets her first movie-star close-up, the audience went wild and applauded as if she were the Meryl Streep of Teen Trash.

Hewitt is a sweet, pleasing presence who almost redeems the junkiness of the movie surrounding her.

There are also cameos by TV's Jenna Elfman ("Dharma and Greg") as an erotic dancer and Melissa Joan Hart ("Sabrina, the Teenage Witch"), who's funny as "The Yearbook Girl," a dweeb intent on getting as many autographs in her yearbook as possible. And Jerry O'Connell ("Scream 2") pops up as a former high-school prince who has gone to pot.

He's playing the role that Matthew McConaughey nailed so perfectly in "Dazed and Confused," a film also noted for early screen appearances by Ben Affleck, Parker Posey, Rene Zellweger, Milla Jovovich, Rory Cochrane, Jason London and Joey Lauren Adams. You might want to check it out. It achieves what "Can't Hardly Wait" only timidly hints at -- the giddy class structure among teenagers.

It also makes partying look like a lot more fun.


Trojan War
Released in VHS Tape by Warner Studios (28 July, 1998)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Director: George Huang
Average review score:

At least she was in this one!!
I got to tell you, it was funny seeing that guy get banged around everywhere, what a ...! He was a terrible actor, can't act worth beans. Again, the movie savour is JLH again! How many movies can she save? She's just awesome! Especially the part where she immatates the other girl! Anyways, if you like to see that guy being banged around alot, this is a good movie, if you actually like this guy, well, I feel sorry for you, the only thing that saved this movie was JLH and the funny bad guys. Who were one of the most different bad guys I've ever seen! This is a good movie, rent it or if you can find it anywhere but here, buy it!!

A teenagers must-see!!!
Trojan War was an entertaining fun movie with a beautiful girl. Jennifer Love Hewitt was mesmerizing as the best friend any guy would kill to have. The story was cheesy and the jokes were predictable, but you couldn't help but be completely enthralled with the movies action. In the end the guy get the girl and all is well. An added plus was the great soundtrack.

Predictable, silly but immense fun
What can I say? It's predictable, but immense fun to watch. It's short, but has an excellent soundtrack- The Cardigans, Everclear, Peter Murphy and Fountains of Wayne. It's full of clever references to other movies courtesy of George Huang (director of 'Swimming With Sharks') and the actors- well, it's almost impossible to discredit them. Jennifer Love Hewitt and Will Friedle are believable as the couple- they actually got together after making this movie, and the other actors, Jason Marsden in particular, are on top form, something I've thankfully come to expect from this crowd. Sure, it's silly, but just give it a go- it's a great film to watch and the music and acting really is refreshing.


I Know What You Did Last Summer
Released in VHS Tape by Columbia/Tristar Studios (28 August, 2001)
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Director: Jim Gillespie
Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Anne Heche
Just what the world needs, another riff on that post-Psycho horror cliché: the slasher movie. In this version, which considerably dumbs down the Lois Duncan book, the bad guy chases naughty teenagers with a hook, all the while dressed as a dark version of the Gorton's fisherman. They seem to have killed someone in a car accident while out partying, and a price must be paid. Nothing new is added to the genre, though it would be unfair not to note that this does have some scary moments. That is about all it has, because as much as this wanted to be another Scream, it hasn't the heart or the script. It does, however, have the requisite cast of small-screen stars (including Party of Five's Jennifer Love Hewitt and Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar) to have snagged box-office success, spawning a sequel. --Rochelle O'Gorman
Average review score:

Mediocre cinemafication of an already mediocre book
Make no mistake: this is hardly a faithful adaptation of the novel by the same name. Not that that's an entirely bad thing, though... as a young teenager, I absolutely LOVED all of Lois Duncan's novels, with one or two exceptions... including _I Know What You Did Last Summer_. The storyline lacked the kind of intense, suspensful pace that made her other novels flow so well, and I just never connected with the characters.

So, not exactly the kind of story you could make a deep, provocative movie with. Perhaps wisely, the screenwriters chose to make this a horror movie. But I honestly believe they could have done better.

IKWYDLS is your typical teens-make-mistake-that-bites-them-in-the-arse slash-em-up horror flick. Hardly original, but you know, Hollywood is driven by money, and it's not like this film did all that terrible considering what it probably cost to make.

Which isn't to say that they deserve any slack for making a bad movie, because that's more or less what this is: a bad movie. It's only worth sitting through if you're curious, and even then, you might be sorry. Aside from a completely unoriginal story and script, the acting, to say the least, leaves something to be desired. Jennifer Love Hewitt is unquestionably babely, and may be a sweetheart, but she's not a great actress, so the fact that she played the main character of Julie only makes it more difficult to connect to this movie. Sarah Michelle Gellar, on the other hand, is an AMAZING actress, but is unfortunately confined to a rather stereotypical supporting role (and, if you've seen enough horror movies, I don't think I have to tell you how her story arc goes). Don't feel too sorry for her, though; even if Gellar *had* ended up playing Julie, she probably couldn't have done much with the script and wouldn't have won a Blockbuster Award for her performance in this movie. Still... she deserves a lot better than what she gets.

Bottom line, this movie walks the line between mediocre and bad. Granted, it didn't have much to go on, but it could have been better. See it at your own risk.

I know what you did last summer is a cool and scary movie
I know what you did last summer is a great movie. I was just 13 years old when I first saw it and it scared me ...

I know is about four teenage kids who having a pre- college going party a beach. The four teens get druck and on the way home they hit a man with their car.Then they made the biggest mistake known to man:They thrown his body in the river.After that they vowed each other that they would never speak of it.Just until...

A year later the four friends are reunited with each other after Julie (played by the hottest chick around Jennifer Love Hewitt)gets a threatning letter that says "I Know What You Did Last Summer". Then the four friends start getting stalked and later killed by a fisherman coat wearing serial killer who kills is victims with along sharp fish hook.

I know What You Did Last Summer is based on a novel by Mystery novelist Lois Duncan. The acting in this movie was really good and I like Hewitts and Phillippe's acting the most.But the only thing I didn't like Was that phillippe's character was a total [bad guy] .There really wasn't much gore in this one,but I liked it. I saw the sequal I wasn't that impressed with it.

A Good Scary Time
While the makers of I Know What You Did Last Summer certainly won't be collecting any Academy Awards for their work, they will most definitely be known for creating a solid thriller with plenty of scares.
After a 4th of July bash, four North Carolina teens drive to the local beach for some ghost stories and late-night sex. While driving on the winding road home, the group hits a man. They decide to dump the body into the ocean to avoid legal hassles, and swear to never discuss the incident with anyone ever again.
One year later, their secret comes back to haunt them. Literally. Is it the man they thought was dead, or someone else wanting to settle the score?
Now the four are running for their lives, trying to figure out who the man in the slicker is; before he guts them like a swordfish.
I Know What You Did Last Summer features four of today's hottest stars in their "breakthrough" roles. Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Jennifer Love Hewitt (Heartbreakers), Ryan Phillippe (Cruel Intentions), and Freddie Prinze Jr. (She's All That) work well together, and brought life to the characters created by Scream writer Kevin Williamson.
While it isn't a perfect movie by any stretch of the imagination, I Know What You Did Last Summer is certainly one of the better of the teen horror movies that the late 90's bombarded us with. Even if you're not a horror buff, give it a look, it may surprise you.


I Know What You Did Last Summer
Released in VHS Tape by Columbia/Tristar Studios (23 March, 1999)
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Director: Jim Gillespie
Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Anne Heche
As they celebrate their high school graduation, four friends are involved in a hit-and-run accident when their car hits--and apparently kills--a pedestrian on an isolated roadway. They dispose of the body and vow to keep the incident a secret, but a year later somebody starts sending them letters bearing the warning "I Know What You Did Last Summer." At that point the panicked foursome becomes the target of an elusive serial killer whose disguise consists of a fisherman's slicker and a lethal ice hook. Part mystery and part slasher flick, this thriller was heavily hyped as a follow-up to Scream by screenwriter Kevin Williamson (who later created the TV series Dawson's Creek), and like Scream it's a showcase for a teenage cast including Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar. And while this shocker isn't as inspired as Scream, it's guaranteed to give its target audience a few good thrills as it dives toward a routine climax of mayhem and murder. Based (rather loosely) on the popular novel by Lois Duncan. --Jeff Shannon
Average review score:

Mediocre cinemafication of an already mediocre book
Make no mistake: this is hardly a faithful adaptation of the novel by the same name. Not that that's an entirely bad thing, though... as a young teenager, I absolutely LOVED all of Lois Duncan's novels, with one or two exceptions... including _I Know What You Did Last Summer_. The storyline lacked the kind of intense, suspensful pace that made her other novels flow so well, and I just never connected with the characters.

So, not exactly the kind of story you could make a deep, provocative movie with. Perhaps wisely, the screenwriters chose to make this a horror movie. But I honestly believe they could have done better.

IKWYDLS is your typical teens-make-mistake-that-bites-them-in-the-arse slash-em-up horror flick. Hardly original, but you know, Hollywood is driven by money, and it's not like this film did all that terrible considering what it probably cost to make.

Which isn't to say that they deserve any slack for making a bad movie, because that's more or less what this is: a bad movie. It's only worth sitting through if you're curious, and even then, you might be sorry. Aside from a completely unoriginal story and script, the acting, to say the least, leaves something to be desired. Jennifer Love Hewitt is unquestionably babely, and may be a sweetheart, but she's not a great actress, so the fact that she played the main character of Julie only makes it more difficult to connect to this movie. Sarah Michelle Gellar, on the other hand, is an AMAZING actress, but is unfortunately confined to a rather stereotypical supporting role (and, if you've seen enough horror movies, I don't think I have to tell you how her story arc goes). Don't feel too sorry for her, though; even if Gellar *had* ended up playing Julie, she probably couldn't have done much with the script and wouldn't have won a Blockbuster Award for her performance in this movie. Still... she deserves a lot better than what she gets.

Bottom line, this movie walks the line between mediocre and bad. Granted, it didn't have much to go on, but it could have been better. See it at your own risk.

I know what you did last summer is a cool and scary movie
I know what you did last summer is a great movie. I was just 13 years old when I first saw it and it scared me ...

I know is about four teenage kids who having a pre- college going party a beach. The four teens get druck and on the way home they hit a man with their car.Then they made the biggest mistake known to man:They thrown his body in the river.After that they vowed each other that they would never speak of it.Just until...

A year later the four friends are reunited with each other after Julie (played by the hottest chick around Jennifer Love Hewitt)gets a threatning letter that says "I Know What You Did Last Summer". Then the four friends start getting stalked and later killed by a fisherman coat wearing serial killer who kills is victims with along sharp fish hook.

I know What You Did Last Summer is based on a novel by Mystery novelist Lois Duncan. The acting in this movie was really good and I like Hewitts and Phillippe's acting the most.But the only thing I didn't like Was that phillippe's character was a total [bad guy] .There really wasn't much gore in this one,but I liked it. I saw the sequal I wasn't that impressed with it.

A Good Scary Time
While the makers of I Know What You Did Last Summer certainly won't be collecting any Academy Awards for their work, they will most definitely be known for creating a solid thriller with plenty of scares.
After a 4th of July bash, four North Carolina teens drive to the local beach for some ghost stories and late-night sex. While driving on the winding road home, the group hits a man. They decide to dump the body into the ocean to avoid legal hassles, and swear to never discuss the incident with anyone ever again.
One year later, their secret comes back to haunt them. Literally. Is it the man they thought was dead, or someone else wanting to settle the score?
Now the four are running for their lives, trying to figure out who the man in the slicker is; before he guts them like a swordfish.
I Know What You Did Last Summer features four of today's hottest stars in their "breakthrough" roles. Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Jennifer Love Hewitt (Heartbreakers), Ryan Phillippe (Cruel Intentions), and Freddie Prinze Jr. (She's All That) work well together, and brought life to the characters created by Scream writer Kevin Williamson.
While it isn't a perfect movie by any stretch of the imagination, I Know What You Did Last Summer is certainly one of the better of the teen horror movies that the late 90's bombarded us with. Even if you're not a horror buff, give it a look, it may surprise you.


I Know What You Did Last Summer
Released in VHS Tape by Columbia/Tristar Studios (28 August, 2001)
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Director: Jim Gillespie
Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Anne Heche
As they celebrate their high school graduation, four friends are involved in a hit-and-run accident when their car hits--and apparently kills--a pedestrian on an isolated roadway. They dispose of the body and vow to keep the incident a secret, but a year later somebody starts sending them letters bearing the warning "I Know What You Did Last Summer." At that point the panicked foursome becomes the target of an elusive serial killer whose disguise consists of a fisherman's slicker and a lethal ice hook. Part mystery and part slasher flick, this thriller was heavily hyped as a follow-up to Scream by screenwriter Kevin Williamson (who later created the TV series Dawson's Creek), and like Scream it's a showcase for a teenage cast including Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar. And while this shocker isn't as inspired as Scream, it's guaranteed to give its target audience a few good thrills as it dives toward a routine climax of mayhem and murder. Based (rather loosely) on the popular novel by Lois Duncan. --Jeff Shannon
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Mediocre cinemafication of an already mediocre book
Make no mistake: this is hardly a faithful adaptation of the novel by the same name. Not that that's an entirely bad thing, though... as a young teenager, I absolutely LOVED all of Lois Duncan's novels, with one or two exceptions... including _I Know What You Did Last Summer_. The storyline lacked the kind of intense, suspensful pace that made her other novels flow so well, and I just never connected with the characters.

So, not exactly the kind of story you could make a deep, provocative movie with. Perhaps wisely, the screenwriters chose to make this a horror movie. But I honestly believe they could have done better.

IKWYDLS is your typical teens-make-mistake-that-bites-them-in-the-arse slash-em-up horror flick. Hardly original, but you know, Hollywood is driven by money, and it's not like this film did all that terrible considering what it probably cost to make.

Which isn't to say that they deserve any slack for making a bad movie, because that's more or less what this is: a bad movie. It's only worth sitting through if you're curious, and even then, you might be sorry. Aside from a completely unoriginal story and script, the acting, to say the least, leaves something to be desired. Jennifer Love Hewitt is unquestionably babely, and may be a sweetheart, but she's not a great actress, so the fact that she played the main character of Julie only makes it more difficult to connect to this movie. Sarah Michelle Gellar, on the other hand, is an AMAZING actress, but is unfortunately confined to a rather stereotypical supporting role (and, if you've seen enough horror movies, I don't think I have to tell you how her story arc goes). Don't feel too sorry for her, though; even if Gellar *had* ended up playing Julie, she probably couldn't have done much with the script and wouldn't have won a Blockbuster Award for her performance in this movie. Still... she deserves a lot better than what she gets.

Bottom line, this movie walks the line between mediocre and bad. Granted, it didn't have much to go on, but it could have been better. See it at your own risk.

I know what you did last summer is a cool and scary movie
I know what you did last summer is a great movie. I was just 13 years old when I first saw it and it scared me ...

I know is about four teenage kids who having a pre- college going party a beach. The four teens get druck and on the way home they hit a man with their car.Then they made the biggest mistake known to man:They thrown his body in the river.After that they vowed each other that they would never speak of it.Just until...

A year later the four friends are reunited with each other after Julie (played by the hottest chick around Jennifer Love Hewitt)gets a threatning letter that says "I Know What You Did Last Summer". Then the four friends start getting stalked and later killed by a fisherman coat wearing serial killer who kills is victims with along sharp fish hook.

I know What You Did Last Summer is based on a novel by Mystery novelist Lois Duncan. The acting in this movie was really good and I like Hewitts and Phillippe's acting the most.But the only thing I didn't like Was that phillippe's character was a total [bad guy] .There really wasn't much gore in this one,but I liked it. I saw the sequal I wasn't that impressed with it.

A Good Scary Time
While the makers of I Know What You Did Last Summer certainly won't be collecting any Academy Awards for their work, they will most definitely be known for creating a solid thriller with plenty of scares.
After a 4th of July bash, four North Carolina teens drive to the local beach for some ghost stories and late-night sex. While driving on the winding road home, the group hits a man. They decide to dump the body into the ocean to avoid legal hassles, and swear to never discuss the incident with anyone ever again.
One year later, their secret comes back to haunt them. Literally. Is it the man they thought was dead, or someone else wanting to settle the score?
Now the four are running for their lives, trying to figure out who the man in the slicker is; before he guts them like a swordfish.
I Know What You Did Last Summer features four of today's hottest stars in their "breakthrough" roles. Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Jennifer Love Hewitt (Heartbreakers), Ryan Phillippe (Cruel Intentions), and Freddie Prinze Jr. (She's All That) work well together, and brought life to the characters created by Scream writer Kevin Williamson.
While it isn't a perfect movie by any stretch of the imagination, I Know What You Did Last Summer is certainly one of the better of the teen horror movies that the late 90's bombarded us with. Even if you're not a horror buff, give it a look, it may surprise you.


Garfield
Released in Theatrical Release by (18 June, 2004)
MPAA Rating:
Director: Peter Hewitt
Starring: Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Stephen Tobolowsky
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