movie review - Never Been Kissed
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Toronto, 1999.10.05
Good by comparison with Big Daddy, a movie utterly unrelated other than I saw it on the same night, this one was nothing special. It's about a lowly editor who wants to be a reporter. She works for a Chicago newspaper that's foundering due to bad management, and is sent to high school to get the scoop on what kids are up to these days.
It's a pointless assignment, and the movie offers little more. It relies on the lead's excruciating embarrassment in school, a repeat of her real high school performance. It's full of unsurprising, cliched stunts, and seems to abandon its plot part way through as if the last third were re-written after shooting began.
Skip it, given a choice. Not recommended.