Hayden Panettiere: 'I Love You, Beth Cooper'

What 'Heroes' star Panettiere brings to this end-of-high-school, coming-of-age comedy

Director Chris Columbus' new movie I Love You, Beth Cooper is a "joyless, offensively stupid end-of-high-school farce," said Scott Foundas in The Village Voice. Starring Hayden Panettiere as a "cheerleading goddess" and Paul Rust as the "nerdy valedictorian" who professes his love for her during his commencement speech, this film is a "listless succession of house trashings, party crashings," and "realizations that beautiful people can be insecure, too." (watch the trailer for I Love You, Beth Cooper)

I Love You, Beth Cooper isn't a great movie, said Michael Sragow in the Baltimore Sun, but it's a "decent, genial youth comedy." The film's "fun never rises to the proper explosive levels, mainly because Rust is so wrong as" the lead nerd. But Hayden Panettiere is a "gifted, attractive" actress and her performance makes this movie worth watching.

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