Crazy/Beautiful
Crazy/Beautiful
PG-13 | 29 June 2001 (USA)
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At Pacific Palisades High, a poor Latino falls hard for a troubled girl from the affluent neighborhood.

Reviews
Gaylord McGee (gayinfolsom)

This one was really bad, really flaky. It is a story of a strung out unstable girl who doesn't know what she wants and pretends to be in love with some walking stereo-type because she feels sorry for herself and wants to kill herself and sabotage her life. The acting is done by a reluctant actress which is perfect because it portrays what the average girl would be like in such a situation (sarcastic, lying, only doing it to hurt others and sabotage herself instead of suicide.) What a depressing bad-romp. It is filled with every kind of insulting blatant stereo-type and a propaganda of hatred toward white males. This has such a hateful rhetoric that it would be on par with movies that the Nazis would have made. Moral of the story is don't half-bad things in life.. do what you do with your whole being without being hurt, don't do things sarcastically, put your whole being into it. When you do not then you are promoting the most disgusting selfish kind of hatred no different than Nazi propaganda.

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Geoffrey DeLeons

Certainly, one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I will disagree, however, with other reviewers who said the movie is bhoring: I was too busy cringing at the embarrassing behavior of Dunst's character, Nikki to be bhored. I really felt sorry for Hernandez's character, Carlos. We have all hung around with the wrong people for the wrong reasons, but when there IS no reason, like in this movie, then it is just 90 minutes of huge embarrassment: Having a drunk, promiscuous chick with no personality or depth, hanging all over you. Nikki's actions and words beg the questions, "Just how hollow and vacuous can one person be? How pretentious? How much self-awareness and identity can one person lack?" The screen writing is the most drab and lacking-in-quality that I have ever experienced. I managed to watch Crazy/Beautiful until they drove up to Carlos' house and the mother came out. Then, I was done. 90 minutes of a reminder of what the worst night of your life was like, when you were smashed out of your mind on booze. Then again, you had a personality. No one in Crazy/Beautiful does.Absolutely disgraceful, especially considering the potential of the base story.

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Raul Faust

I really don't know how can many people enjoy it. I mean, what's even good about this film? Thinking about it, I only can say bad things. To begin, I must say this film is very boring. Nothing really happens, it's just a bunch of uninteresting scenes about a crazy girl and her boyfriend wannabe. There are lots of idiocracies that made me laugh (and get mad at the same time). For example, her dad says that she finally a decent boy and he trusts him, and one minute later he says he doesn't want him to see his daughter anymore? What??? And the conversations between Carlos and his mother? She speaks in Spanish and he speaks in English, and they both have no misunderstanding problem. Why don't they just speak the same language? And which kind of girl has no problem in having sex in front of her father? Is it even possible to exist? And why can't Jay Hernandez ever portray an ordinary American boy? Doesn't he agree with that or what? And despite all that, I honestly didn't believe in their love. It seemed to me the writers didn't make a decent development of their relationship. A shame after all...

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whpratt1

Kirsten Dunst,(Nicole Oakley),"Wimbleton",'04, plays a wild out of control young gal, who's father is a Senator and practically allows her to do anything she wants. Poor Jay Hernandez,(Carlos Nunez),"Hostel",'05, happens to cross paths with Nicole and from then on the heat gets hotter between the two of them. They really fall in love and in one scene almost make love right in front of Nicole's father. Carlos is about to make love with Nicole and he tells her he does not have a condom, so she runs off and gets one, mean time Carolos cools off. If you like lots of funny scenes and two actors who do a fantastic job of acting, this is the film for you.

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