GET OVER IT

Nina Willdorf

Get Over It opens with a guy getting dumped on his soon-to-be-exposed ass and a pirouetting UPS delivery woman jumping into the arms of dancing garbagemen who are bounding to the poppy tunes of a gyrating Carmen Electra. It gets better.

Trying to win back girlfriend Allison (Melissa Sagemiller), Berke (Ben Foster) enlists the sexy Kelly (Kirsten Dunst) as his theater tutor. Allison has fallen into the arms of Chook (Park Bench), a boy-band-member transfer student with "an accent like Madonna," and the two plan on auditioning for the school play, a bastardized musical version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. As soon as Berke stops tripping over himself to win back his woman, he sees Kelly as a hottie rather than his best friend's snot-nosed little sister, and he succumbs to her alternately sunny and sultry wiles.

Director Tommy O'Haver (Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss) errs with cheesy dream sequences and schmaltzy numbers (think stardust and predictable chord changes). But Martin Short's ridiculous rendition of the fey has-been theater coach steals the show. This latest addition to the typical trash heap of teen romantic comedies is, in fact, hard to get over.