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Love Don't Cost a Thing

Director:
Troy Beyer

Cast:
Nick Cannon, Christina Milian, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Kal Penn, Steve Harvey

MPAA Rating:   PG-13 for sexual content/humor

Review:

Alvin Johnson (Nick Cannon) is a nerd. He’s got brains galore and is going to get a scholarship in engineering from the Ford Motor company, but then he hates being part of the pariah caste at high school. Then one Paris Morgan(Christina Milian), the belle of the A-list gets into a small fender-bender, and doesn’t have the bucks to pay for it before her mom gets home, so Al decides to invest the money he’s been saving to get the last part for his scholarship-winning project on another one. Paris will be hired to get him on the A-list and he’ll enjoy his last quarter in High School.

This is a remake of a film called "Can’t Buy Me Love" and Michael Swerdlick, who wrote it, didn’t really help director Beyer’s redo all that much. It’s tired and rather boring. After all the "be yourself" moral [best buds Kenan Thompson, Kevin Christy and Kal Penn are ditched and our hero gets his comeuppance] has been rammed down our throats in most every Disney cartoon in the last two decades, and the concept of self-improvement is one that should be seen as a positive one.

But no. What we got is a third-rate "Faust" without the Devil. Everything ends happily ever after but we see that coming from a mile away. The only thing that’s good about this is that Ms. Milian is a real hottie. She’s got a bright future ahead of her and is very pleasing on the eyes.

Other than that, there’s really no reason to go. Wait until it gets on cable.

Eric Lurio