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Brandon Scott: Nobody loved Beth Cooper, that is clear. Layup. She is not a star, she is a niche market. I feel sorry for Christopher Columbus, going from Harry Potter to this. How the mighty fell. Hayden Panettiere now knows where she is in the greater landscape. She should be content to ride the Heroes train until it crashes. Even Katherine Heigl is looking like she might be smart enough to stick with TV now. The transition from TV to film is always one fraught with danger. Buyer beware.

Tim Briody: I know multiple folks here absolutely loved the book, so I imagine it hurts them that it was turned into a generic teen comedy designed as a vehicle for Hayden Panettiere.

Eric Hughes: I didn't looove the book, but did feel it could be good source material for a movie. When the previews (and reviews) came in, I decidedly changed my mind. What went wrong was that people that read the book (and those that didn't) - so essentially we're talking about everyone here - weren't excited to see this thing.

Max Braden: I Love You, Beth Cooper was the funniest book I'd read in five years but even when I first heard it would be turned into a movie I didn't have great expectations. A lot of the funny in the novel comes from internal monologue and creative wordplay, which I didn't expect they'd voiceover, so you're just left with a generic one-crazy-night teen movie like License to Drive. Seeing Panettierre cast was a further letdown but I feel like I'm in the nationwide minority for disliking her as an actress. I think she could bounce back with an edgy villainess character, but trying to put her on some Reese Witherspoon path with this movie wasn't the right step. Given how poorly it did, Fox might have done better with any other cast, surely with Michael Cera.

Kim Hollis: I'm a big fan of the book, too, and I thought the trailer looked harmless enough. I've liked Panettiere in some past roles (Malcolm in the Middle springs to mind), so there's more to her than what is on Heroes and in this film. It just went terribly wrong, and became a generic teen comedy. Clearly, the studio had no confidence in the movie and did the bare minimum to promote it. And they weren't wrong to do that.

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