Boys and Girls (2000)

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Blistering performances.

This movie is a good surprise because it isn't exactly a teen movie with dumb jokes but rather a serious analysis about relationships.As a boy, I can say that I really identified myself with "Ryan" as a planer, someone who doesn't decide or do what's on the moment. And it can be true that girls, like butterfly, like to wander there and there.The main thing about their stories is that it took a long time to acknowledge that they are in love. Again, it's a proved fact and it is often due to the feminine indecision. In fact, boys (or are least, "Ryan" and me) know at once what they feel and want to hurry the relationship. The twist of the beginning and end credits is clever because it looks like it was their fate to become soul-mates.The settings of the story in Berkeley and San Francisco is enjoyable because this city is rather underrated whereas it's much better than the famous LA! If it's always funny to see adults playing students, the cast was excellent: I think that "Ryan" should have kept his glasses because it is boring always and every time to see tall, sexy, well-built flawless heroes when the common people are so diverse! To finish with a smile, I realize that Jason Biggs looks like very much as a famous president of republic in his teens years! It would be funny to see Jason at his fifties so!

I pity those people who have lost a certain sense of emotion to describe a movie like BOYS and Girls as boring lackluster etc..I mean are you people devoid of sensibilities or what?? your favourite comment that script was poor needs a Reality check!! let me ask you What do you expect from a romantic comedy? The central characters had a wonderful chemistry, to add to that the charm and sheer beauty of CLAIRE FORLANI. Jason biggs was adept in his part to add humour and also CLAIRE's wit...agreed that there was a certain element of predictability, but what the heck...isn't the story of how two people meet, become friends and eventually fall in love (the so called cliché, how else you expect it, extra-terrestrial or something) shown here in a very subtle yet fated, scintillating yet compelling manner, boosted by some strikingly genuine performances, enough to give the movie its due credit!!Those who still can't get the essence of it,i am afraid you guys need a life..P.S: I am not a big fan of romantic comedies, but i have seen enough to say that this ONE rates right up there with the best!!!!

This film reminds me another one: "When Harry met Sally" with Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, a friendship between them for many years, with ups and downs, with different couples and respective break-ups and finally they found out they were meant one for each other that they are perfectly together in love. But this latest one with Freddy Prinze Jr and Claire Forlani is funny, touching and sweet too, the formula worked and they had love chemistry on screen, Freddy's character is more serious and a little nerdy and Claire's character is outgoing, strong-minded, impulsive, enjoying life day to day, but anyway they were the right couple in the end.

I am sorry to see that this film has achieved such a low average score, for I thought it was really pretty well done. Of course the plot has echoes of When Harry Met Sally, but for me it was sufficiently different to be readily distinguishable, apart from the fact that it took place over a much shorter time period, almost all the important action being in the central characters' college years.I liked it that Ryan was an archetypal nerd (but not a totally clueless geek), which made the whole development of an apparently platonic friendship (but evidently more on his side almost from the start) much more plausible. I know it's a cliché, but I liked his room mate, self-proclaimedly more knowledgeable about women, continually striking out in real life. I liked the quietly attractive but by no means glamorous heroine and her friend.Because it did not require so much suspension of disbelief as When Harry Met Sally, I think it worked better.