Monday, May 21, 2012

69. John Tucker Must Die (2006)- Betty Thomas

John Tucker Must Die Trailer

Everyone knows a John Tucker. "That guy" who is stunningly good looking, a total sports phenom, and completely capable of sustaining three girlfriends all at once, from different social circles so they don't realize that the others even exist. All is well and good in the life of a John Tucker, until the girls discover each other and are completely unamused. And what happens when you put those girls in a room together? They make a plan to destroy said man. This might be the basic premise of "John Tucker Must Die," but there is so much more to it than just a bunch of teenage girls getting revenge on their cheating ex boyfriend. There's herpes, man thongs, Elvis Costello, "the other tucker" and skip. Staring Brittany Snow, Ashanti, Sophia Bush and Penn Badgley, this is a comical play on high school stereotypes and their affect on the social dynamic that they function within. From the self obsessed head cheerleader, to the vegan teen activist, to the future Katie Couric, to the nobody who blends into the crowd, the comedy lies within the fact that these girls would never have been brought together without the one man they plot to destroy: John Tucker.

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