SUBMITTED BY Fred Hill

March 21, 2001 —

Here is a review by Pam Grady:

Though amateur theatrics play a role in most high schools, they rarely make it into teen movies. In 1988's Permanent Record, a school production of Pirates of Penzance provided solace to Keanu Reeves and his friends after a pal's suicide, and, more recently, in Rushmore, Jason Schwartzman's Max Fischer rewrote popular movies into wildly funny adolescent drama. Following in those films' footsteps is Get Over It, wherein a lovelorn teen follows the object of his desire into a rock musical version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Ben Foster (Liberty Heights) plays Berke, freshly dumped by the girl he's been in love with since he was seven, Allison (Melissa Sagemiller). Though best pals Felix (Tom Hanks' son, Colin) and Dennis ("Thong Song" crooner Sisqo, making his film debut) try to lift his spirits with such antics as taking him to a sex club &emdash; where he's promptly arrested before dominatrix Carmen Electra can whip him into shape &emdash; Berke's one-track mind keeps leading him back to Allison. When he discovers that Allison and her new boyfriend, the apparently English Striker (Shane West) &emdash; who also sings in an 'N Sync-like boy band &emdash; are trying out for the school production of A Midsummer Night's Rockin' Eve, Berke decides to beat "the backstreet bitch" at his own game.

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