Article: 'LOVE DON'T' COMES OFF AS PUFFY INFOMERCIAL.(Living)(Movie review)(Review)

Byline: Christy Lemire Associated Press

"Love Don't Cost a Thing" shares its title with the name of a Jennifer Lopez song -- which, thankfully, is not part of the soundtrack. In fact, Lopez is nowhere to be found here, but her ex-boyfriend, Sean Combs, is, in various manifestations.

The movie in a sense plays like an extended infomercial for all things Puffy.

The high school kids in the movie either wear or covet his clothing line, Sean John. And when nerdy Alvin (Nick Cannon) undergoes a makeover and becomes popular -- thanks to cheerleader Paris (Christina Milian), whom he's paid to be his girlfriend for two weeks -- the fact that he's wearing a Sean John ...

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