The hidden message in 'Jawbreaker:' Kill one for the Gipper!
By James DiGiovanna
LOOKING AT THE roster of teen films populating the cineplexes
in the last few months, one would think we had all been transported
back to the mid-'80s. The most recent foray into this Clearasil-and-peach-fuzz
arena is
Jawbreaker, which bests
She's All That
and
Varsity Blues in the extent to which it has been critically
reviled. Mike Clark, the reviewer for respected journalistic daily
USA Today, was appalled enough to dub it "this nastiness."
Critics usually hate a film for one of two reasons; 1) it actually