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Whatever it takes is bad, silly, predictable, stupid, and romantic, in exactly the ways it's supposed to be. It follows formula to a tee. Good production quality. The beautiful people are very, and the nerds are unmistakable. Teen gross outs. Hot fashions. Adolescent fantasy at its finest. Both a one and a ten at the same time, I have to give it a five.

Ryan Woodman (Shane West) and Maggie Carter (Marla Sokoloff) are best friends and neighbors. Floyd (Aaron Paul) is their slacker friend. Ryan is obsessed with high school goddess Ashley Grant (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe). Big man on campus Chris Campbell (James Franco) wants to get the one he can't get, the virginal enigmatic Maggie. So he needs Ryan to Cyrano DeBergerac for him. In return he proposes to do the same for Ryan with his cousin Ashley.The biggest problem is that Shane West is way too good looking for the loser role. They need somebody much more geeky, and a bad haircut really doesn't make it. It's nothing offensive, but it just can't rise above the clichés. It's obvious where this is going, and it has an uncomfortable time getting there.

This movie was one of the lamest I've seen in quite awhile. It took every teen movie ever made, borrowed something from each while not adding a single original element. It even has a prom at the end! Though I will admit the only laugh I had was a "Titanic" take-off at the prom.The movie is unworthy of your time and/or money. It makes "10 Things I Hate About You" seem even better - that wasn't the most original-themed movie, either, but it has a heart & soul this movie only dreams of. It even makes lesser efforts like "She's All That" & "Can't Hardly Wait" better, cause it really is so awful.