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She's All That

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She's All That (1998)

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Reviews Counted:54

Fresh:20

Rotten:34

Average Rating:4.9/10

Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: This modern retelling of George Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION features Rachael Leigh Cook and Freddie Prinze Jr. as high-school students on two sides of the clique divide. Prinze stars as a high-school... This modern retelling of George Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION features Rachael Leigh Cook and Freddie Prinze Jr. as high-school students on two sides of the clique divide. Prinze stars as a high-school stud who makes a bet with a friend that he can transform the hopelessly geeky Cook into a prom queen. It turns out the transformation is even more successful than he could have imagined--before he knows it, he's fallen in love with her himself. SHE’S ALL THAT features Matthew Lillard, Anna Paquin, Paul Walker, and Kevin Pollak, as well as acting appearances for music artists Usher and Lil’ Kim. [More]

Starring: Rachael Leigh Cook, Freddie Prinze, Matthew Lillard, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Starring: Rachael Leigh Cook, Freddie Prinze, Matthew Lillard, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Usher Raymond, Anna Paquin, Paul Walker, Kevin Pollak, Kieran Culkin, Lil' Kim

Director: Robert Iscove

Director: Robert Iscove
Screenwriter: R. Lee Fleming
Story: George Bernard Shaw
Producer: Peter Abrams, Richard N. Gladstein, Robert L. Levy
Composer: Stewart Copeland

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A formula flick.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/09/06
Derek Adams
Derek Adams
Time Out
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Adolescence was never supposed to be this wholesome.

Full Review Source: Sight and Sound | comment Comment
03/05/02
Geoffrey Macnab
Geoffrey Macnab
Sight and Sound

This is a movie aimed at insecure and immature pre-teens, but gives these impressionable youths hideous role-models and messages.

Full Review Source: UK Critic | comment Comment
01/01/00
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
UK Critic

The rest is just breezy propaganda for American high school fascism.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
01/01/00
Empire Magazine
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It's often impossible to distinguish what's meant to be cartoonish from what's meant to be dramatic, but the confusion seems appropriately adolescent.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
08/07/07
Lisa Alspector
Lisa Alspector
Chicago Reader

She's All That is not likely to make a mark or be remembered by anyone for very long, but it's harmless enough and useful for finding the finer points of this genre.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

If you're a teen and you like MTV's The Real World, I think you might enjoy this picture. If you're not a teen, there's better pictures out there for you.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Report Card | comment Comment
01/01/00
Ross Anthony
Ross Anthony
Hollywood Report Card

In the parlance of American Bandstand it’s got a good beat and you can dance to it, but that hardly separates it from the rest of the pack.

Full Review Source: Nitrate Online | comment Comment
01/01/00
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
Nitrate Online

A very entertaining and touching film and one of the better efforts in the recent class of teen flicks.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
01/01/00
Thom Bennett
Thom Bennett
Film Journal International

To say this isn't original is to understate the matter. However, although it's questionable whether this story has ever been done well, that hasn't stopped filmmakers from repeatedly trying.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
01/01/00
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews

A completely common and utterly excruciating high school ugly duckling romance so grossly out of touch with the times that even the title is passe.

Full Review Source: SPLICEDWire | comment Comment
01/01/00
Rob Blackwelder
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire

No surprise here: Laney gets a makeover and turns into a babe-and-a-half. Zack realizes what a manipulative jerk he is, and Taylor returns for the predictable standoff with Laney for his affections.

Full Review Source: Houston Community Newspapers | comment Comment
01/01/00
Gary Brown
Gary Brown
Houston Community Newspapers

A spiffy comedy about an adorable underdog.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
03/03/02
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

Every early attempt at proving this won’t be a standard teen flick is eventually negated by a cop-out later on in the film.

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01/01/00
Shay Casey
Shay Casey
Conceited Critic

She's All That feels like it could have been made by a team of septuagenarians from the glory days of American Intl. Pictures.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
08/07/07
Godfrey Cheshire
Godfrey Cheshire
Variety
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Factor in a lack of sparks between Prinze and Cook, and one is left with a romantic comedy with little in the way of romance.

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

She's All That is not a great movie, but it has its moments.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
01/01/00
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Only Prinze, who has the ethereal, gentlemanly quality of a young Anthony Perkins, gets enough screen time to really make an impression.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
01/01/00
Justine Elias
Justine Elias
Village Voice

Iscove's film has its own brand of charm and is reasonable enough in its ambitions that it's awfully hard to resist.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
08/07/07
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Once, just once, I'd love to see a teen flick that doesn't send out a message to young girls that to be acceptable, you have to conform. I liked the artist girl much better before.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jane Ganahl
Jane Ganahl
San Francisco Examiner
 
 
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