But surprisingly this version can actually be watched by someone with a mental age greater than 12, although enjoyment may be another matter entirely. That would depend on your taste in women and your susceptibility to playing “spot the celeb”.

The production is pretty well handled, if by no means inspired. The signal-to-fart-joke ratio is better than can be expected and amazingly there is no sex whatsoever, not even implied.

Instead, there is a plot (of sorts) with a few twists. Yes, the hero is a geek that turns his life around and gains the popularity he has always dreamed about. But this time he does it by following the advice of a psychotic jailbird (played by Eddie Griffin, best know as Eddie of sitcom Malcolm & Eddie). Instead of facing his fears and letting love overcome all, the geeky hero adopts a new personality, moves to a different school and promptly beats 10 kinds of hell out of the school bully, establishing himself as the alpha male.

That would have made the second, predictable, part of the movie excruciating. However, you can easily amuse yourself through it by looking out for the various cameo appearances. The likes of skateboarding ledgend Tony Hawk and rocker Tommy Lee have walk-ons, but it is rapper Vanilla Ice that takes the cake as a record store flunky with a temper.