She's All That
1999 Directed by Robert Iscove
Synopsis
These two opposites attract... but EVERYONE'S trying to keep them apart!
Jock and class president Zack Siler accepts his friends' bet to make over the geeky, bespectacled Laney Boggs into a prom queen beauty. But along the way, Zack falls in love with his sparkling creation.
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This film does exactly what it says on the tin. It's a formulaic high-school-angst film featuring a geek-girl who, surprisingly, is fantastically hot when she takes off her glasses.
Can't buy me love was a better film, although that was the 80s when hotness was in short supply. There's much more hotness in She's All That. My wife liked Freddy Prinze Jr. very much. I lean more towards the Rachael Leigh Cook fandom.
Also look for a very brief and weirdly silent cameo by Sarah Michelle Gellar, who later married Freddie Prinze Jr. and was already 2 seasons into Buffy - I'm really not sure what she's doing here.
Enjoyable, if only for the crazy hotness of the 25-year-old high school kids and the unbelievable angst wrought from the first-world-problem of being beautiful, wealthy, and having to choose between Yale and Harvard.
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This one I like purely for nostalgic reasons, as it's kind of not great. Gotta love that completely unrealistic dance number at the prom!
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Stray thoughts:
1. There's a brief moment in which Freddie Prinze, Jr., walks the exact jangly walk that I remember all my jock basketball friends walked in high school. I rewound and laughed twice.
2. People who think Laney is more attractive after the makeover than before are wrong, wrong, wrong. (I won't bother extending this to a general critique of the film, but it's right there.)
3. I had forgotten how often my friends and I set up / responded, "is that a no?" / "that's a hell no."
4. I defy anyone to find a scene in any Hollywood comedy from the 1990s as eye-watering, stomach-aching hilarious as Laney's dad (Kevin Pollack) playing Jeopardy!. That's how you steal…
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Sure, the movie's plot is not exactly what you'd call original or full of surprises, but when I finally saw this last summer (surprising, given that I went to high school in the late 90's) I still thought it was an entertaining-enough film and boy, watching this was a real blast from the past with everything, from the actors (many familiar faces, for sure; back then Lil' Kim was actually black!) to the music, the fashion and the lingo... it reminded me of my teenage years and how that was so long ago. If you're around the same age as me you might as well (re)watch it yourself to enjoy all those good memories.
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Saw this on a date with my wife back in high school. Thought I'd revisit it on blu-ray. The print is surprisingly decent and, uh...
Get off my back already.
I watched it with my wife, okay?
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This one I like purely for nostalgic reasons, as it's kind of not great. Gotta love that completely unrealistic dance number at the prom!
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Stray thoughts:
1. There's a brief moment in which Freddie Prinze, Jr., walks the exact jangly walk that I remember all my jock basketball friends walked in high school. I rewound and laughed twice.
2. People who think Laney is more attractive after the makeover than before are wrong, wrong, wrong. (I won't bother extending this to a general critique of the film, but it's right there.)
3. I had forgotten how often my friends and I set up / responded, "is that a no?" / "that's a hell no."
4. I defy anyone to find a scene in any Hollywood comedy from the 1990s as eye-watering, stomach-aching hilarious as Laney's dad (Kevin Pollack) playing Jeopardy!. That's how you steal…
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I'm not really sure why I hated this movie as much as I did, but I definitely didn't like it. Maybe it's because I saw it AFTER Not Another Teen Movie made fun of it, thus making it feel pointless, I dunno.
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The acting's horrible, the plot's cliche... but I find this movie really... cute.
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Sure, the movie's plot is not exactly what you'd call original or full of surprises, but when I finally saw this last summer (surprising, given that I went to high school in the late 90's) I still thought it was an entertaining-enough film and boy, watching this was a real blast from the past with everything, from the actors (many familiar faces, for sure; back then Lil' Kim was actually black!) to the music, the fashion and the lingo... it reminded me of my teenage years and how that was so long ago. If you're around the same age as me you might as well (re)watch it yourself to enjoy all those good memories.
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Proud to say that I danced to this, step.by.step. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqiYAp4hxAU
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While it's a horribly acted and shamefully directed formulaic teen romp, She's All That is one of my weird guilty pleasures. I always seem to get a kick out of it.
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"Eine wie keine"