Get Over It (2001)
Directed by Tommy O'Haver
When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long girlfriend, Allison, he soon begins to lose it. But with the help of his best friend Felix's sister Kelly, he follows his ex into the school's spring musical. Thus ensues a love triangle loosely based upon Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", where Berke is only to find himself getting over Allison and beginning to fall for Kelly.
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The original songs, written by Marc Shaiman (1999's "South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut"), are a lot of fun and also aid in raising the movie to a higher level than it otherwise would have gone.
The casting of Elwes, who starred as Westley in Rob Reiner's clever 1987 classic "The Princess Bride," perhaps best underscores the tone and intentions of director Tommy O'Haver ("Get Over It").
Director Tommy O'Haver ("Get Over It") maintains a bright and upbeat tone.
In green, magical Ireland, director Tommy O'Haver ( Get Over It ) re-created the details of the enchanted medieval kingdom's thatched-roof houses, tall castle spires and fields of poppies in colorful, comically anachronistic sets and costumes.
Aiming at the tween-ager crowd that made a hit of "The Princess Diaries," 2001's more modern twist on such girlish daydreams, light-hearted director Tommy O'Haver ( "Get Over It," "Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss" ) enlists "Diaries" charming star Anne Hathaway in the title role as a medieval teenager who was hexed at birth with an obedience spell by an irksome but well-meaning fairy (Vivica A. Fox, stuck in a mock-ghetto-fabulous stereotype).
Writers Laurie Craig, Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith, Jennifer Heath and Michele J. Wolff and director Tommy O'Haver (Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, Get Over It) sprinkle bits of modern-day lore into their period fairy tale.