Review – 10 Things I Hate About You

Ten things that surprised me about this film: It remained reasonably close to the story line from The Taming of the Shrew. Despite its distinctly un-politically-correct source, it managed to present a very 90s picture of adolescent relations between the sexes. The characters were well developed, some even interesting. The script was well written. The jokes worked. The drama worked. It was a reasonably genuine recreation of the high school experience, though in a caricature sort of a way. Newcomer Heath Ledger does a really good impression of Val Kilmer circa 1984. The soundtrack had some really great stuff on it. And the real shocker: despite having no particular affection for Shakespeare or teen-centered comedies, I genuinely liked this movie. Worth seeing