Are you sick and tired of transparent, lame Hollywood tosh where the dweeb conquers all before him to win, win, win? In the real world of course, dweebs stay bullied and go sobbing home to mum or suffer at the hands of a shrink, only to spend the rest of their lives peering unnervingly through glass as they sell you a railway ticket.

And so to the dweeb in question, young Berke (how appropriate, though the name lacks that ring in the States), a sap so smitten by first love (for Allison, hence the regular, irritating regurgitating of Elvis Costello's eponymous tune) that he cannot let her go after she lets him go. Now Allison has opted for a smooth charmer, a pop singer (Sisqó) who - compared to Berke - seems like a fully-rounded adult (though he is in fact a complete ass). While Berke falls accident-prone victim to his own lovesick stupor his friends just spout clichés and laugh, but the cavalry eventually arrives in the cute form of his best chum's kid sister (Kirsten Dunst). Will they remain just good friends? Gosh, gasp. If the studio were giving out cash prizes for guessing correctly, they'd go bankrupt within minutes.

Just in case none of us gets the point, chunks of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (with its theme of young, unrequited love) are hammered into the script in the form of a school production, but at least Ben Foster communicates the ignorance and insecurity of being a troubled teen. Look out for Ed Begley Jr who, playing Berke's dad, is a TV host with a nice line in coarse charm.

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