John Tucker Must Die opens with a high-school spelling bee before degenerating into an unspeakably nasty revenge comedy in which a handsome basketball hero is publicly humiliated by three girls he has two-timed (or three-timed), with the help of a fourth girl who has seen her single mother ill-treated by a succession of deceitful lovers. One of their strategies is to secretly feed him with large doses of oestrogen that affect him physically and make him act all girly. I think even William Wycherley might have found this a rather tasteless work.