Love at First Hiccup Movie Review

Love at First Hiccup is a 2009 romantic comedy starring Scout Taylor-Compton, Devon Werkheiser, Tania Verafield, Ken Luckey, and Adam J. Bernstein. The writers are Soren Frellesen, Dennis Jurgensen, and Barbara Topsoe-Rothenberg. The director is Barbara Topsoe-Rothenberg.

The story follows a high school freshman named Victor, who has fallen in love with a beautiful senior named Anya. There’s just one problem: Anya is already dating Peter, a cocky older partner who doesn’t really care about her. Victor too, every time he gets close to Anya, he develops a case of hiccups. When Victor dares to come up and talk to her, Peter gets in the way and intimidates the freshman. Also, Anya and Victor’s little brothers Zach and Brian are trying to make a movie about Victor and Anya’s relationship. They are always on the sly, filming the two together without his knowledge.

One feature of this movie that seemed to stand out to me was the references to spiders and Spider-Man. The reference to the Spider-Man movie is close to the beginning of the movie, where Victor and his friends are throwing a party. Anya comes with her friend Marisa. Victor has a fantasy that some of the guests are holding him upside down and forcing him to drink beer. Anya steps in and stops him. Victor begins to hiccup. Then Anya walks over to him and, while he’s still hanging upside down, kisses Victor. This scene can be attributed to the scene in Spider-Man when Spider-Man is hanging upside down while Mary-Jane Watson kisses him.

The reference to spiders occurs when Victor receives a prank invitation for Anya’s birthday and calls her home to confirm. Her little brother answers the phone and tells her that Anya wants a tarantula to go with her lizard. The problem is that Anya doesn’t have a lizard. When he later opens the gift while his family, Peter, and Victor watch, Anya and her female relatives are surprised to see a spider. Peter deliberately tilts the box to make Victor look even worse. By the way, Anya’s father finds the whole situation hilarious and likes it right away.

The two most interesting supporting characters are Brian and Zach, the little brothers of Anya and Victor, respectively. They dream of getting rich by making secret home movies. At first, I thought they were trying to sabotage their relationship, as Peter was trying to do. But, as you will see when you watch this movie, his only intention was to make a movie. The two clearly didn’t know the magnitude of what they were doing because they were too young.

In closing, I think Love at First Hiccup is a cute teen romance and I highly recommend it.