This film is a remake of the little-remembered 1987 Patrick Dempsey starrer "Can't Buy Me Love" but with a mainly black cast. This seems to be something of a trend, and while there is nothing wrong with fashioning new releases for a black audience, the makers might have found material that was less cliched.
Having said that, the film (while in no way memorable) had pleasant enough leads in Nick Cannon and Christina Milian as respectively the high school nerd who thinks he can buy popularity by "paying" a gal from the in-crowd (Ms. Milian). To make it clear that she was not a "ho" no money changed hands -- he repaired her mother's car which she had crashed. And surprise, surprise he learns that popularity is not the end-all and she learns that love can be found when least expected.
What I actually found most offensive about this movie was the token use of white characters in much the same way as films used to have token blacks.
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