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Christina millian love dont cost a thing11/10/2022 ![]() Characters are described as looking like a "Frappuccino with hips," or as "looking better than a butter-leather Prada bag." Love Don’t Cost a Thing, however, looks mostly like the same-old, same-old. Her first lead role was in the 2003 film Love Dont Cost a Thing, and she subsequently had lead roles in Be Cool and the 2006 horror film Pulse. The film’s dialogue has a way of combining teen appearance concerns with odd product placement. Milian originally wanted to be an actress. Cannon, the breakout star of last year’s Drumline is solid, although his screen charisma is too strong to ever allow him to be a believable nerd. a brilliant, likeable outcast, and Christina Mitian stars as 'Queen of the. Comedian Steve Harvey has a particularly amusing turn as Alvin’s father, who in an atypical Hollywood stance, is thrilled to discover that his son might be having sex and proceeds to school him in the playa’s finer points of using a condom. mo vies to see LOVE DON'T COST A THING Rated PG-13 Warner Bros Tiger Woods. Everyone, of course, learns the meaning of true friendship before the movie is over. Paris is a cheerleader who’s dating an NBA player (named Dru Hilton – which means, through a curiously timely coincidence, that if Paris marries Dru she’d become Paris Hilton), and she manages to turn nerdy Alvin into hot Al practically overnight. When Paris has a wreck in her mother’s Cadillac Escalade (the movie is very product-placement oriented – just ask J.Lo’s ex Sean Combs, whose music and Sean John clothing line is in constant evidence), Alvin offers to fix it for free using his camshaft money if she promises to pretend to be his girlfriend for a couple of weeks. The story kicks into gear when high school nerd Alvin Johnson (Cannon), a whiz of an automobile engineer, offers to use the money he was going to spend on a new camshaft for the scholarship-eligible car he is building with his three other nerd friends, on winning the most popular girl at school Paris Morgan (Milian). ![]() Director Beyer co-wrote the script with Can’t Buy Me Love’s screenwriter Michael Swerdlick. The plot remains essentially the same, except the film title substitutes the name of a J.Lo song for the original’s Beatles song title. The new movie’s not awful, it does its job but there’s little more to say about it than that. Love Don't Cost a Thing is an "urbanized" (read African-American) remake of the 1987 teen comedy Can’t Buy Me Love starring Patrick Dempsey, Cindy Mancini, and Seth Green. ![]() What we have here is another uninspired remake of a movie that was never crying out for revisitation in the first place. ![]()
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