WRITING for the all-American high-school demographic must be a bloody cushy number. American football, fights, girls and painful family memories are requisite inclusions, which leaves very little space in which to wedge creativity.

Of course, the question is: do you want much more than this? Is your film of choice stacked with cliche and tests the brain about as much as licking the dinner plate? If it is, you're in luck.

So Jake Tyler, who looks like the terrible result of Ronaldo fused with Christian Bale, is off to a new school where he gets into fights, falls for a pretty girl and learns to fight better... all in slow motion and to a rockin' soundtrack, man...