Amy Heckerling had a wonderful success transforming Emma into Clueless but does less well updating The Apartment. Jason Biggs is the Jack Lemmon character, who falls in love with Mena Survani/Shirley MacLaine although she's seeing his teacher Greg Kinnear/Fred MacMurray. Many problems with this film: if it had been set in high school I think a lot of them would have been solved, but a college professor having an affair with a student is like big deal - and also if you can't make friends with someone at college then you really are a loser (failing to make friends at high school is understandable).
Another problem: Biggs' three roommates (Zak Orth, Thomas Sadoski and Jimmi Simpson) are meant to be nasty but are so genuinely unpleasant and nasty it is unenjoyable every time they are on screen.
Best moment for me was the use of Michael Penn's 'No Myth" over the final kiss - almost as good as the use of 'Tenderness' by General Public at the end of Clueless.
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