Metacritic reviews

Populated by ersatz versions of stars who, in this case, are fairly vanilla to begin with.

It's a notch above average, but Whatever It Takes can't get too far above that notch.

Pretty lame stuff. Already it seems to be passing with the speed of light into the limbo of utterly forgettable "who-will-I-take-to-the-prom?" movies.

There's a movie opening today that is so indistinctive I can barely remember its name.

An assembly-line high-school comedy that flunks miserably in all three subjects.

Bearable only because, unlike the recent spate of teen films, it's so breezy it barely even registers.

Makes little impression and is sure to leave few memories for a teen.

A thinly veiled "Cyrano," with the prom in mind.

It's guys like Floyd who make a movie like Whatever It Takes feel like high school. And the rest of the losers make it feel like a movie.

Drivel of the purest ray serene.