Love don t cost a thing christina milian

Q: What is love dont cost a thing based on?

Love Dont Cost A Thing is loosely based on the 1987 teen comedy Cant Buy Me Love, and fails to improve on that tepid movie by using a milieu of black high school students.

Q: What is love dont cost a thing a remake of?

Love Dont Cost a Thing is a remake of Cant Buy Me Love (1987), a movie I despised, and yet this version is sweet and kind of touching, and I liked it.

37 Metascore
2003
1 hr 40 mins
Comedy
PG13

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How far should an unpopular student go to be considered cool? That's the question facing Alvin (Nick Cannon), a high-school geek who offers to fix a popular classmate's car if she will be his girlfriend for two weeks. Alvin's scheme works, but he loses more than he gains---namely his friends. Steve Harvey, Kenan Thompson, Kal Penn.

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Love Don't Cost a Thing

PG-13
1h 41m
2003

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Brilliant, likable high school outcast Alvin Johnson makes a deal with the most popular girl, Paris Morgan, when she wrecks her mother's car: Alvin will secretly fix her mother's car if Paris agrees to pretend to be his girlfriend. Paris reluctantly agrees. After she gives Alvin a much-needed makeover, he begins to behave differently, becoming an insensitive jerk like all the other guys. Can Alvin rein in his newfound ego before he loses his true friends, an opportunity for a scholarship ... and a chance for a real relationship with Paris?

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Critics Consensus: A stale, unnecessary remake of Can't Buy Me Love.

Reviews

Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

Mark Collette

High school films don't have to be dull or juvenile; this one suffers tremendously from the former.

June 21, 2017

The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Mark Palermo

It isn't entertaining enough to get away with its minimal contributions to familiar material.

June 17, 2017

Common Sense Media

Common Sense Says

Missed opportunity full of dubious messages.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that there are plenty of flinch-inducing situations including one where Al's father pressures his son to have sex without any regard to his son's emotional maturity or to the strength of the relationship his son might have. The most painful of these scenes involves Mr. Johnson demonstrating how to put a condom on a bottle with one hand while keeping the attention of an imaginary girlfriend. Young men are repeatedly told that they should be "players", not respecting their female counterparts as people but seeing them instead as objects. Finally, the movie seems to buy into a high school notion of merit, with a person's worth measured by who they are dating and which expensive labels they wear.

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Genre:Comedy, Drama
Release Date:December 12, 2003
Languages:English
Captions:English
Audio Format:
5.1
Screen Pass Eligible:Yes

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What is love dont cost a thing based on?

"Love Don't Cost A Thing" is loosely based on the 1987 teen comedy "Can't Buy Me Love," and fails to improve on that tepid movie by using a milieu of black high school students.

What is love dont cost a thing a remake of?

"Love Don't Cost a Thing" is a remake of "Can't Buy Me Love" (1987), a movie I despised, and yet this version is sweet and kind of touching, and I liked it.

What happens at the end of love don't cost a thing?

Alvin finally redeems himself in front of everyone and his friends become friendly with the popular crowd. Alvin leaves the gymnasium, and as Paris follows him out, she is stopped by Dru. Paris blows him off and chases after Alvin. They finally kiss and agree to start a real relationship.