She's All That

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Summary: Freddie Prinze jr. is great in this movie
Review: Freddie Prinze jr. is a great actor in this movie. He plays Zach, the high school's most populer student. This is the biggest movie since Titanic. See It Soon

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Summary: A great movie you have got to see!
Review: Zack is the class president, captain of the team, and the all around big man on campus. But after he is dumped by his popular girlfriend for another guy, he bets his friends that he can turn class reject, Laney, into the prom queen to prove that he's still the best. Did Zack do too good of a job on Laney or is she all that?

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Summary: AMERICA'S #1 COMAEDY
Review: RACHEL WAS GREAT W/ FREDDIE. AWSOME MOVIE. IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT .....DO SO. AND IF YOU REALLY LIKED IT .....BUY IT. MY FRIENDS AND I LUV IT & SAW IT LIKE 100 TIMES AT THE THEATURE.

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Summary: Yuck
Review: First of all, the main character, the dorky girl, isn't ugly. The "popular girl" is not very good looking and there is no way any of these people are highschool aged. This film is also totally sexist.

The jist of this movie was that there is a dork, everyone treats her like crap they make her all pretty (They take of a pair of thick glasses...WOW) and then she lives happily ever after with the jerk that bet everyone he could turn her into prom queen. Charming. Kind of reminds of of Ten Things I Hate about you does it not? A film which I also dislike.

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Summary: One of the best teen movies out there
Review: Zack Siler (Freddie Prinze Jr) is doing fine - he's just started his last 8 weeks of high school, he's class president, he's dating the most desirable girl in high school, and they are a shoo-in for prom king and queen. Everything's good until his girlfriend arrives at school. Taylor Vaughn (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) got a tattoo on spring break, and she is now dating Brock Hudson (Matthew Lillard), whose only claim to fame is that he's an idiot on MTV's Real World reality TV. Zack is hurt, especially when his friend Dean (Paul Walker) razzes him about it. Zack responds by claiming he can make any girl in school into the prom queen. That's the kind of statement that leads to a bet. Dean says he'll choose a girl for Zack's challenge, and he chooses Laney Boggs (Rachael Leigh Cook).
Laney is about as big an outsider as Taylor's ego. She's an artist - she has been advised that many artists are more appreciated after they are dead, so she should kill herself (we all need "friends" like that, right?). She looks after her father and her brother. She's clumsy. She wears unattractive glasses. She wears no makeup. She wears overalls. She even wears a daggy hat while she works in a fast-food joint. They've pulled out all the stops to try to make the beautiful Rachael Leigh Cook look plain (they failed, but they tried hard!).
This is the predictable My Fair Lady type of story, or so it seems at first, especially when Zack's sister Mackenzie (Anna Paquin) gets involved to do a make-over on Laney. But there are some nice little twists, and they add up to a film that's different enough to be a pleasant time. Two of the interviewees mention that this film was deliberately modelled on early John Hughes films; I'm not sure I'd agree with that, but it does capture the idea of the romantic comedy / teen comedy genre to which this film belongs.
There are some interesting lesser characters in this film. We get to see Gabrielle Union and Clea DuVall as minor characters, and Sarah Michelle Gellar in a non-speaking role (she's included in a list headed "They're all that" in the end-credits). Tim Matheson, in a single real scene as Zack's father, was haggard-looking, but convincing.
All up, this is a pleasant film, and I recommend giving it a try.


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Summary: Great romantic comedy
Review: She's All That is a very funny movie. It stars Freddie prince Jr. and Rachel Leigh Cook. They are comic geniuses. The story is about a guy who made a bet with his friends about making any girl that they want into homecoming queen. They give Rachel a hot makeover. The plan was going smoothly until he found out that he is falling in love with her himself! Find out how he makes her into the queen and have a relationship at the same time. Overall- a great movie!

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Summary: Now this is the best of the young romance-comedies.
Review: I think that movie is great because it seems to touch base on so many levels of insight.

The girl is straightforward and believable, and the guy is also the same. The stereotypes are not present here like in other films.

A theme is not present, but truth always seem to come out freely.

-Calvin

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Summary: Mildly engaging but rather silly film
Review: This is always being described as updating of Shaw's "Pygmalion" to a high school setting much as "Cruel Intentions" and "Clueless" update "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" and "Emma" respectively. In fact the resemblance here is pretty tenuous. What it resembles much more closely in its core plot premise is De Palma's "Carrie": hottest, most popular guy in school asks difficult unpopular girl to prom for motives that do not flatter her; she is transformed by his attentions but then things start to go a bit wrong... Only going a bit wrong in this movie is a bit less spectacular than in the de Palma film and just involves drama rather than blood, gore and supernatural horror.

Being a little more specific, the idea is that our hero Zack (Freddie Prinz Jr) is dumped by his horrendous alpha-female girlfriend and deals with his annoyance by making a bet with a friend that he can take any girl and turn her into prom queen material in six weeks. His friend picks bespectacled arty and not very sociable Laney Boggs (Rachael Leigh Cook) as the biggest challenge he can find.

The movie is rather disappointing. One thing that makes it rather weak is that the challenge of transforming Laney is in fact not much of a challenge at all and only an idiot would think it was. She's smart, talented and has film star looks which are supposed to be concealed at the start - but are not - by a suboptimal haircut and glasses. Really the only thing she's missing is that she doesn't hang with the in-crowd and as soon as Zack starts dating her, that pretty well fixes itself. It's a very Hollywood kind of failure and reminds me of "The Truth About Cats and Dogs" which is supposedly, you may recall, about how a rather unattractive woman finds love. Only there they went and cast Janeane Garofalo who is not even remotely unattractive. The problem is presumably just dumb and unadventurous Hollywood execs who are convinced that people won't go and see a movie that isn't about beautiful people with glamorous movie star looks. So whenever someone sets out to make a movie the whole point of which is to be about someone whose problem is that they are not very beautiful and glamorous, it gets messed up.

But, hey, it watchable enough. Faintly engaging, faintly amusing. Emphatically not one of the best of the billions of high school dramas that came out of the 90s but still a long way ahead of the worst.


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Summary: movie you can watch over and over
Review: We all dream of being beautiful, luxerious, and in love. Picture a scrawny, homely girl with classes who spends most of her time in a room doing art. Paint has splattered all over her body from her tedious work. Imagine the hottest jock approaching you asking you out.

What would you say?

Zack is given a bet to ask out any "Non Hottie" to prom. He says that he can turn the date upside down into a real knocker. Zack meets Laney Boggs, asks her, and gets her approval.

Follow them as they hang out, watch the classic trip down the stairs to the song "Kiss Me" and laugh out loud.

The movie shows us that we all are beautiful on the outside and inside. And some of us don't care to show it on the outside, even though we already are.