A fun sex comedy that has survived better than most others. Denis is a brain who tells the entire school that he loves Beth Cooper, his dream girl whom he has never spoken to. Beth and her hot-girl friends decide to follow up on this and this starts a crazy graduation night that involves parties, nudity, bullies and beer aka all the requisite ingredients for a teen sex comedy.

With Beth dragging Denis along to all the stops driving like a maniac she has the perfect mixture to be a manic pixie dream girl. I wouldn't fight over anyone who thinks she is just another MPDG but I think she subverts in a lot of ways. Maybe not enough but the whole point of this movie is that Beth isn't a dream girl she's a real person. She drives like a maniac, she makes bad decisions but she feels trapped in her role as the hot girl everyone wants, she's got personal family life issues that affect her outlook.

The opening of the movie is about Denis coming out of his shell but the rest of the movie is about him learning that Beth Cooper is more than the girl on his ceiling poster.

There's a sideplot that I hate one that showed up in 1997's **In and Out** that I absolutely despise. It was nearly subverted here, but the plot point is if [spoiler]someone calls you gay it's because you're gay[/spoiler]. No matter how you act or what you say or how you feel or what your life has been. If someone [spoiler]calls you gay in act one by the end of the movie you will be gay. Rich, aside from the "Let's swordfight with our boners" flashback isn't really that gay. People look at everything he says as if it's really gay but most of it wouldn't be looked at twice if not for the speech and the non-digetic history. It would have been a better movie imo if Denis had been wrong[/spoiler] on all of his speech subjects. The speech would have needed to be a little bit different. But it would have given the movie a stronger point rather than just fleshing out Beth it would have shown that Denis was the one with blinders on. But hey maybe next time.