My Sucky Teen Romance

2011

1h 17m

Comedy

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71%

7 Reviews

Tomatometer

50%

50+ Ratings

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Kate and her friends head to SpaceCON, the local sci-fi convention. Kate meets Paul, a recently turned vampire and he bites her in the neck. Kate's friends race to stop Paul and save Kate before the other vampires can turn anyone else.

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One of the worst films I have ever seen. Could not complete it.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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My Sucky Teen Romance (Emily Hagins, 2011) Despite only giving Emily Hagins' first feature, Pathogen, three stars (but let's remember, three is still "above average" on a five-star scale), I unhesitatingly recommended it in my review because, well, it's a zombie movie that was made by a twelve-year-old and, aside from having basically no budget and some problems with acting ability, was a clever, fun take on the genre. Hagins returned five years later with her third feature, My Sucky Teen Romance, a teen vampire comedy whose purpose is to make fun of teen vampire comedies. And my favorite thing about it is that in every way, it's obvious Emily Hagins took Pathogen as a learning experience. My Sucky Teen Romance is a much better movie technically, with much more solid acting and a clever script (written by Hagins). In short: if you like your teen comedies with more romance than raunch, My Sucky Teen Romance is for you. Plot: Kate (the gorgeous Elaine Hurt in her screen debut) is a shy teen with a hefty crush on comic-book-store employee Paul (Belleflower's Patrick Delgado). Kate convinces her best friend, society girl Allison (The Retelling's Lauren Lee), to go to a comic convention with her and a couple of nerdy friends, intending to run into Paul. What she doesn't know is that a few days beforehand, Paul was bitten by a vampire (Supernatural Activity's Devin Bonnée) and is in the process of changing. She also doesn't know that he feels the same way about her, but when the two of them are about to confess their feelings for one another, they're jostled in a hallway, and Paul's new fangs get jammed into Kate's neck. Which is all well and good, except that (a) they don't want to be vampires and (b) Kate's friends are all about staking the two of them before they turn for good. The two of them frantically try to hunt down the vampire that bit Paul before the process is irreversible. I'm not going to try and convince you that there's any boundary-pushing to be done here or anything like that. This is a genre movie that revels in its genre movie-ness. This is not necessarily a bad thing; after all, a genre movie that delivers on the promises of the genre is a success on most levels you could care to mention. You could probably make the argument that I'm cutting Hagins some slack, and I wouldn't argue with you, but in all fairness, I've probably given more positive reviews to comedies in the past year than I did in the decade before that. Maybe I'm just getting softer in my old age, but I had a very good time with this one. *** 1/2

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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This movie was mediocre at best. It has some bad acting and bad scripting though. The story was okay at best.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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says it in the title-sucky

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Skip it. This movie wasn't fair...for us, the viewers. It was a lame attempt at writing vampires with Twilight level feelings while trying to stick to the more well known rules of vampires. This felt like it was written by an out of touch 40 year old who's never actually been to a convention. There are so many flaws and inconsistencies. The best inconsistency is when the characters talk about how vampires have super strength, yet they turn and run from mortals and can't seem to open doors.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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"hey what are you guys do this week end I have fifteen dollars and by rejected WB pilot script let make a shitty movie" said someone with poor judgment

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Emily Hagins

Director

Elaine Hurt

Kate

Tina Rodríguez

Gina

Lauren Lee

Allison

Sam Eidson

Lyle

Devin Bonnée

Vince

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Ed Travis

Hollywood Jesus

It is a good film even held up to other Hollywood teen comedies. Someone give Emily Hagins a budget big enough to do something on the next level!

Apr 3, 2020

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Stephen Saito

Moveable Fest

While clearly part of a learning curve, is contrary to its title and refreshingly to the teen romance genre.

Dec 17, 2018

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Scott Weinberg

TheHorrorShow

An entirely accessible mini-budget comedy that coasts on by through sheer force of wit, energy, and "let's put on a show!" creativity.

Aug 26, 2015

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

Mocks and pays tribute to the genre director Emily Hagins loves...

Rated: 3/4

Oct 9, 2012

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Matt Donato

We Got This Covered

My Sucky Teen Romance is an independent comedy which shows inexperience on all fronts, but stands as a stepping stone that will undoubtably lead to bigger and better things for director Emily Hagins.

Rated: 5.5/10

Sep 13, 2012

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Phil Villarreal

OK! Magazine

The movie didn't quite do it for me, but I'd like to see what Hagins could do with a better cast and budget.

Rated: 2.5/4

Aug 22, 2012

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Synopsis

Kate and her friends head to SpaceCON, the local sci-fi convention. Kate meets Paul, a recently turned vampire and he bites her in the neck. Kate's friends race to stop Paul and save Kate before the other vampires can turn anyone else.

Director: Emily Hagins
Producer: Emily Hagins
Screenwriter: Emily Hagins
Production Co: Cheesy Nuggets Productions, Arcanum Pictures
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 28, 2016
Runtime: 1h 17m

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