Never Been Kissed - 17th January 2012

Tuesday Night is Film Night rolls on into the New Year, with a romantic comedy, this time we sample the delights (?) of;

Never Been Kissed

I'm not sure where to start with this review........... OK the film is 107 minutes long, it's only worth watching for the last 30 minutes!

That's harsh, but probably fair.

Here's a quick synopsis;

Drew Barrymore plays Josie Geller, a 25 year old Copy Editor working on a Chicago newspaper. She is picked to go undercover, to get the inside story of the local high school and how the kids of the day are coping. The problem being that Geller didn't enjoy high school as she was far from popular and was a bit geeky and therefore bullied. Her return, is not much better.

The love interest comes in the shape of her English teacher, but clearly a teacher / student relationship is wrong, but Josie's boss wants that to be the scoop; High School teacher falls fro student, type thing. (Watch it, then you'll know what I mean).

Anyway the film runs through this bizarre and extremely weak plot, heading towards the school prom and the publishing of this undercover story, but there appears to be no story and Geller and her boss will be out of a job.........................

.... or is there a story? Cue the last 30 minutes, which totally makes up for the first 77 minutes.

As a romantic comedy / feelgood story ending, it's good, it's original and a bit of a tear-jerker. And no, I'm not going to tell you.

So, to summarise, endure the first hour or so, but enjoy the end.