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Director:
Andy Fickman
Cast:
Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum, Robert Hoffman (III), Alex
Breckenridge, David Cross |
Rating: (1 to 5
stars)
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MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for some sexual material. |
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Review:
 She's
the Man, Directed by Andy Fickman, Starring: Amanda Bynes,
Channing Tatum, Robert Hoffman (III), Alex Breckenridge, David
Cross
Yeah, I know, Shakespeare was the greatest writer who ever lived,
but that doesn't mean that everything he did was brilliant. Oh,
his WRITING was always brilliant, but not necessarily his plots,
which brings us to the danger faced by would be adapters. If keep
some of the plot and none of the words, you've got real trouble.
Which is where we arrive at “She's The Man.” What's left of
Shakespeare's “Twelfth Night” is part of the plot, and this
doesn't work very well at all.
Sebastian Hastings (James Kirk) is a slacker with some musical
talent who was kicked out of yet another plush private school, so
he's been sent to Illyria high because no one else would take him.
But he wants to be a rock star, so he's going to London, England
to play in a music festival and asks his sister Viola (Amanda
Bynes) to cover for him for the first two weeks of the new term.
Viola, who's the star of her high school's soccer team, isn't too
happy with the proposition, but the team has just been disbanded
and the coach(Robert Torti), of course, won't let her on the team,
something her soon-to-be ex-boyfriend Justin (Robert Hoffman III),
agrees with. So Viola decides to go to Illyria in drag and beat
the crap out of her old team.
So, “Sebastian's” new roomate Duke (Channing Tatum) has the hots
for Olivia(Laura Ramsey), who's boyfriend has just left her and
agrees to help “him” train to get on the first team if “he” gets
her to date him. But Viola soon gets the hots for…”hilarity”
ensues.
The big problem is that most of the schtick doesn't work very
well, not that Bynes can't do it, but it seems almost nobody else
can, and those who do are stuck in parts that are half baked
cartoons.
The demographic for this flick is the newly-empowered tween girl
group, who has yet to understand the meaning of good taste. If you
aren't one of those, pass it by.
Eric Lurio
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