Love Don't Cost A Thing is a 2003 remake of the 1987 teen comedy Can't Buy Me Love starring Patrick Dempsey. This remake has Nick Cannon,Christina Millan and Kenan Thompson. A nerdy teen named Alvin(Cannon) is in love with Paris Morgan(Christina Millan). However when Paris accidently destroys her father's car,Alvin decides to place a bet on her that she can be his girlfriend for a month in order to help her fix her dad's car. But will romance really blossom between them?

If you seen the Patrick Dempsey one,stick with it as I actually bought Patrick as a nerd who wants to be popular, Nick wasn't really a nerd at all only he had funny looking eyebrows but was acting like a real jerk when he was pretending to be popular whereas Patrick wasn't.

At least it wasn't a beat by beat.

"Popularity is a job, it's not a privilege," says Paris Morgan, an undeniably attractive high school student who serves as the main love interest in Troy Byer Bailey's Love Don't Cost a Thing. She continues by saying, "It's nothing but work and worries. Work to get in. Work to stay in." This is pin-point accuracy, and what sets the film apart from another cliché story in the shuffle. It knows the teen culture, and doesn't pretend to connect with it.

Paris, played by Christina Milian, is high-maintenance and carries a reputation the size of the entire high school. She catches the eye of almost every student there, but the one we focus on is Alvin Johnson (Nick Cannon),an intelligent, yet geeky soul who is breathlessly trying to get a General Motors scholarship he has been working hard for for as long as he can remember. His parents (Steve Harvey and Vanessa Bell Calloway) couldn't be more proud of him, but his father has always wanted Alvin to have the popularity and experiences he had as a kid.

When Paris crashes her mother's luxurious SUV after an argument with her boyfriend, she takes it into the shop, where she is told that it would take an estimated two weeks and $3000 for repair. Alvin, who just so happens to be working there when she brings it in, offers to pay $1500 for the parts the car needs, fix it in a few days, in exchange that Paris pretends to be his girlfriend for two months (which gets subtracted into two weeks). It is practically inevitable that he will become virtually consumed with this popularity that will lead him to his brief glory days then his predicted downfall.

Cannon and Milian are likable leads, and Harvey provides some fun for the supporting role position. I would've been content with seeing more of Alvin's friends, who are portrayed by Russell W. Howard, Kal Penn, and Kenan Thompson. Love Don't Cost a Thing could've spawned a tiresome plod through the clichés and the conventions of the high school caste system, yet the film occupies a more stern level of restrictions and poignancy than one could tell from the film's poster (which has such a blatantly corny subtext to the film's title) and its trailer.

Starring: Nick Cannon, Christina Milian, Steve Harvey, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Russell W. Howard, Kal Penn, and Kenan Thompson. Directed by: Troy Byer Bailey.

This is a really, really bad movie. First of all - I really enjoyed Can't Buy Me Love - which is by far such a superior film you can hardly compare. The thing about that was that you believed Patrick Demsey was a geek. Here - the main actor is purely acting geeky - and misses by a mile. The main girl is very cute and very good - but does not make up for a horribly directed lead male. What was the director thinking here? The entire audience in the theater thought the same thing - why did we come here....