Python Hyena Drive Me Crazy (1999): Dir: John Schultz / Cast: Melissa Joan Hart, Adrian Grenier, Stephen Collins, Ali Larter, Susan May Pratt: Mindless exercise about an emotional act of love and those knots that bind in our stomach that are this close to heaving lunch from three weeks ago. It is meant as a starring vehicle for Melissa Joan Hart with an opposites attract formula that died this very year when they released She's All That. The dumber than dumb plot has Hart and Adrian Grenier as next door neighbors recently dumped by ex's and pretend to date each other. Any moron can see the outcome of this without binoculars. The rest is predictable with every teen movie cliché available. Director John Schultz does his best while some set pieces provide amusement, but that doesn't save an absolutely recycled storyline. Hart and Grenier are going by the motions and nothing they do sparks anything interesting. It goes without saying that their bedroom windows are speaking distance away. This is a lame plot device that totally makes everything convenient for lazy writers. Stephen Collins of 7th Heaven fame makes an appearance but it isn't likely one that will be remembered upon any career retrospective. Ali Larter also shows up to wade through material traveled by hundreds of others before her. This is all totally recycled crap that is likely to drive you crazy. Score: 3 / 10

Fluke_Skywalker 'Drive Me Crazy' is one of those movies where every scene transition starts with a 30 second snippet of a bad pop rock song blaring at full volume (The soundtrack is quite bad, save for the title track and "Stranded" by Plumb). There isn't an ounce of originality. Every box is checked off and you know exactly where it's going well before it gets there. That's not necessarily a fatal flaw if it can entertain (or at least divert) along the way, and 'Drive Me Crazy' does, if marginally. Most of the credit goes to stars Melissa Joan Hart and Adrian Grenier. The former has less range than a spitball, but she uses her spunky Clarissa/Sabrina thing to good effect here as a character we're supposed to like and root for, even though she's the Type-A popular go-getter. Grenier similarly could've just been "the guy" in the movie, but he brings far more to his role than was there on the page.We get a severely underdeveloped subplot with Hart's absentee Father (a third billed Stephen "Sleazeball" Collins, who is in it all of two minutes) and an out of nowhere romance between the two lead character's parents, leading to a somewhat cringeworthy finale. But it's light and bouncy, and at times even surprisingly sharp in its observations about social classes. Throw in a few chuckles and some likable performances all around and you have, not the best the genre has to offer, but certainly not the worst.

courtnyg I really enjoyed this movie. I saw it for the first time on Comedy Central earlier this year, and had to go buy the DVD. I'm not really into the teen movies, so I was surprised I enjoyed it so much. Breakfast Club wasn't bad, but it was a little too cut and dry for me. You had the freak, the geek, the bad boy, the jock, and the princess. But I didn't like how each character fit so perfectly into their little slot. Nobody had any layers or any characteristics of any of the other "groups". Sure they found ways to identify with each other based on outside occurrences, but no person is all jock or all geek or all freak. As for the modern teen movies, they're all too raunchy for me. They're less about the characters and more about stereotypical teens doing stereotypical teen things with no real substance. Just one disgusting joke after another. Drive Me Crazy, was a fun and fresh teen movie. It showed many different teen characters, but many of the characters had different facets. Very few of the characters were stereotypical in my opinion. De Vine was the sweet popular girl who used to be unpopular but got thin and became popular but is not so sure she likes popularity any better than unpopularity (how often do we see that girl in teen movies?). Nicole was the popular girl who was perky and smart, but also seemed to care about other people. Brad was the top jock, but he fell in love and had his heart broken (how often does that happen to the top jock in teen movies?). Ray is the freak who is really the coolest character in the movie. All of the acting was above average for a teen movie. There are some great lines in the movie. The two main characters had excellent chemistry. I found the storyline believable. But I fell in love with and married the boy next door myself. He was the rebel and the jock rolled into one, and I was the freak and the smart girl rolled into one. We were friends growing up, had some problems in our early teens and didn't speak for years, then got back together a little later on and have been happily married for 8 years. So the storyline isn't that hard for me to believe, and reminds me of my own teen years. That being said I do think the writers dropped the ball in a few places. The ending was pitiful. Having the parents hook up was repulsive to say the least. Then they walk off in the sunrise to the tree house. That was ridiculous. What seniors spend the morning after their prom night in their tree house? It's like the writers didn't know how to end the movie. I didn't really like how they just left us hanging as to how Chase felt about Nicole until he left Dilcey hanging and showed up at the dance. Did he have feelings for her when he went back to Dilcey, did he not and realized it the night of the dance? I didn't like how Ray was just left out at the dance once Chase showed up. So I do have some complaints with the way the movie ended, but that doesn't take away from the storyline up to that point, the enjoyable multi-faceted characters, the chemistry between the two major characters, and the excellent writing up to the final few scenes of the movie.

potterface I have had this movie for over a year, and I have watched it 5 or 6 times, the original reason I bought it was because it 4.99$ on DVD at walmart, there was really no appeal to me. I watched it and I thought it was really cute. I am not a huge fan of Melissa Joan Hart. I have never seen Adrien Grenier in another movie, so the new face was definitely refreshing even though this movie is 6 years old, I think it was cute and still modern, and it had some awesome characters. I loved the main crew. I didn't think Dolcy was very pretty, but oh well. I think Dave (designated Dave) was an awesome role. I loved how he was such a cute pushover, and I am glad he went to the prom with Di vine.:]Thanks for reading my opinion on drive me crazy, Krista!