Missed opportunity full of dubious messages.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 25, 2010

"Love Don't Cost A Thing" is loosely based on the 1987 teen comedy "Can't Buy Me Love," and fails to improve on that tepid movie by using a milieu of black high school students.

| Original Score: D | May 12, 2009

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

High school films don't have to be dull or juvenile; this one suffers tremendously from the former.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4 | Sep 20, 2004

...the movie borders on cruelty to its audience.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Apr 15, 2004

It isn't entertaining enough to get away with its minimal contributions to familiar material.

Full Review | Jan 13, 2004

[I]t's hard to see any crying need to remake a film that was tacky the last time around, or to make this the black teen - excuse me, "urban" - film of the season.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 31, 2003

If you remake a mediocre movie, you get another mediocre movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 25, 2003

Stuffed with attitude but just as hackneyed as the original.

Full Review | Dec 23, 2003

Rent the original instead.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 21, 2003

Another uninspired remake of a movie that was never crying out for revisitation in the first place.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 21, 2003

Here's another needless remake that's a shadow of the original.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 21, 2003

This hip-hop flavored remake of 1987's Can't Buy Me Love is woefully botched on every level.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 19, 2003

The African-American film community deserves better than a mediocre comedy pulled from the cinematic icebox.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 19, 2003

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 19, 2003

Short on charm, purpose or laughs.

| Dec 18, 2003

Love may not cost a thing, but this movie'll cost you the price of a ticket -- and more of your time than it's worth.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 17, 2003

I found it cute. There are some rough spots, of course, but the movie has a lot of heart.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 16, 2003

Ah, true equality: not being held to a higher standard and, accordingly, producing the same kind of gender-blind garbage about which it appears useless to complain.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Dec 16, 2003

Since Cannon and Milian have to squash any frisson to avoid sinking into pure escort-service sleaze, there's not much rom in the rom-com.

| Dec 16, 2003