Review: Get Over It

#84 - Get Over It


Get Over It centers around Berke Landers, a teenage boy who experiences the ups and downs of being in love. He thinks that his true love, Allison, is gone forever when she moves away; however, years later, sitting at a table in his high school's cafeteria, Allison walks in and their young love rekindles. For 16 months, Berke and Allison are inseparable, until one day Allison breaks up with Berke and moves on, rather quickly, with a handsome boy band member named Striker. Striker is new to school and has every girl swooning at his feet. Striker and Allison decide to audition for the school musical together, so Berke gets the insane idea to audition as well. He enlists the help of his best friend's sister, Kelly, so he can ensure getting a role in the production. Berke lands the role of an attendant, while Striker gets to play Demetrius, and Allison his Hermia. Fortune shines upon Berke when an accident causes the lead actor playing Lysander to be injured. Berke swoops in and scores the role of Lysander. This means he will be rhyming with the best of them as Allison's leading man in A Midsummer Night's Rockin' Eve. Kelly continues to help Berke with his lines, and they develop a closer relationship than they had planned. One night, while at a party, Berke and Kelly kiss, and Felix, Kelly's brother, watches it all happen. Berke gets a punch to the face, and Kelly gets a broken heart. All Berke can think about is the fact that she's Felix's sister, and that he still loves Allison. When the evening of the play arrives, Berke comes to realize that he doesn't love Allison anymore. He has fallen for Kelly, and he decides to tell her while changing the dialogue in the final scene by having Lysander fall in love with Kelly's character, Helena, instead of Allison's character, Hermia. Striker doesn't agree with Berke's butchery of Shakespeare's work, so he screams at the audience and verbally attacks Berke. The stage pyrotechnics go off at the wrong moment, and it sends Striker flying backwards into the orchestra pit. Berke and Kelly kiss, and they live happily ever after.

This movie isn't great...it's not really even that good; however, I love Shakespeare, I love A Midsummer Night's Dream, and I love Ben Foster, so I love this movie. Those are literally the only reasons why I own this movie. I do believe that if Ben Foster and Kirsten Dunst weren't in it, I probably never would've watched it in the first place. It's just your typically corny early 00's movie. And seriously, what did we ever see in Sisquo? Now that I watch the film, Sisquo is a creepy little dude. But we grooved to him singing "The Thong Song," didn't we? Ugh.

There is one thing I noticed while watching the film this time that I have never noticed before. During the musical, near the end of the film, the cast is singing "Midsummer Night's Dream" and Helena leans over to Lysander and sings, "And I love him"...but she doesn't love Lysander...Helena loves Demetrius. I wonder if that was an oversight on the part of the film director? Or was it just something Kelly decided to do because she's in love with Berke? Either way, it's incorrect, and I noticed.


Overall, I give Get Over It 2.5 out of 5 stars.