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Hey folks, Harry here... Now we've all had those experiences where we wound up with a mouth full of cock and succulent conch. This is the film about that first time it happened in like High School. Sniffle, it really brings back memories!
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She IS the Man
I know what you're thinking. I?m really god damn bored, so I guess I?ll read a review about that Amanda Bynes movie on AICN. Well, friends, you?ve come to the right place.
First and foremost, for those of you that don?t care about the details, this movie is very funny. I recommend that you see this movie in the theater this weekend. I especially recommend that you see it at about 8pm with all of the 13-17 year old girls that also want to see it. Like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, that we heard so much about a few months ago, this is an audience movie. The only difference is that this movie?s target audience happens to be 13-17 year old girls. I highly recommend it, yada yada yada. Go to the movie theater two hours early (before the 10 o?clock showing of V for Vendetta, of course), and see this movie. It is very funny, etc.
Now, onto the details. First, the good. This movie is very clever. The screenwriters understand that the entire plot is fairly cliché and the characters are mostly prewritten stereotypes, so they keep plot and character development to a minimum. They spend a minute or two here and there to show that the jock is actually sensitive, blah blah blah etc. Basically, they?re giving you a break from laughing. The rest of the movie is all about setting up and executing jokes. It is very good at keeping the small laughs rolling, and building up to really big laughs. The target audience, like many of us, has no attention span. All of the jokes are, at most, one-two punches.
This movie, unfortunately, this not perfect. The target audience is 13-17 year old girls, and they like seeing (muscular) guys with their shirts off. It is quite excessive. For example, the main jock scores a goal during a soccer game, and suddenly pretends that he?s on Girls Gone Wild, and immediately takes off his shirt for no real reason. Between locker rooms and dorm rooms, there are plenty of bare male chests for all of us.
Out of nowhere, they cut to soccer practice, and it shows Amanda Bynes taking a soccer ball to her (supposed) balls. You may have seen the scene in the trailer. It immediately cuts back to something else. I?ve seen the trailer, and consequently the scene, a couple times, so it wasn?t quite as funny. If I hadn?t seen it already, I probably would?ve laughed pretty hard, even though it really didn?t make any sense.
They spend a little time doing the things that they have to do. Everyone is happy in the end, etc. It takes a few minutes to do these things.
I sat through Sleepover a year or two ago, and it got so cliché that I couldn?t help but laugh at how ridiculous. That is not how I feel about this movie. Like I said earlier, it recognizes that it is cliché, and deals with the things that it has to deal with as briefly as possible. The reason most comedies aren?t as good as they should be is that they feel they have to resolve everything before the end, and they take way too long to do it. In She?s the Man, they do things right. They basically ignore the plot except when absolutely necessary, and do their best (which is pretty good) to keep us laughing most of the time.
There are a lot of cheap laughs.
Amanda Bynes does not appear nude in this film.
David Cross does not appear nude in this film.
Just to reiterate, I highly recommend this movie. If you only have enough money to see one movie, you should probably see V for Vendetta. If you have enough money for two tickets, convince your friends to go with you to see She?s the Man with all of the 13-17 year olds at your local mall. You will not be disappointed. The humor is very fast-paced, and the plot is mostly disregarded.
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Therefore, I won't be seeing this movie.
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I've checked out many of her shows with my daughter and find her to be genuinely funny. Will be interesting to see how long she keeps doing slapstick. As for this review, and perhaps this is my misinterpretation, but it sounds like it is exclusively about a bunch of shirtless males being funny with Amanda. Awwwwwrighty then.
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ala Nick.
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The theatre by my house already has people camping in line. The Amandites even have their own cheer. Go figure. I believe our NBC affiliate in STL is airing a segment on the She's the Man frenzy. I can't believe it. And like the guy that reviewed this, I am certainly not a plant.
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Well I was gonna go see this under the assumption David Cross was going to be naked in all his glory, but now forget it.
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For those who don't know, this movie is a modern-day "Twelfth Night." But Shakespeare did the whole cross-dressing plot in no less than three of his comedies. I guess the British just find the concept a lot funnier than we, the unwashed American masses.
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very :|
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I think the fact that he's in it, gives it somewhat of a pass. And while thinking Amanda Bynes sucks is a popular fanboy pastime, she's the only one of these teen queen types that I actually find tolerable, as she has slight roots in comedy to an extent.
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Has anyone at this site honestly thought about going to see this? I'm not saying it's bad, we aren't the target audience. The reviewer sounds like a plant too, which makes him the dumbest plant ever for thinking a review on this site is going to generate ticket sales.
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What I was going to say (before hitting the wrong damn key), was that I distinctly remember Joyse Hyser tearing open her shirt, Clark Kent style to prove that she was, in fact a female. I think amanda should have been tequired to replicate that scene, which was the best one in the movie. Besides, look at what a great career Hyser had afterwards.....
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Mar 15, 2006 11:32:57 AM CST
At least Just One Of The Guys Showed us a nice pair ot
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tits. I don't know about labeling Amanda a tomboy but I think she is genuinely funny, I don't watch anything she's in on a regular basis but I've always found her to be a capable comedienne. Not to mention she is easy on the eyes and I usually don't like the really skinny girls. You'll always find her in short skirts which show off her gorgeous long legs. So in short, yeah I'd hit it. Wouldn't go catch this in the theater but might catch it when it hits cable.
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you just get stranger and mo' gay
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I sussed out it was 12th Night after the first, quickly abandoned ad campaign. It's interesting they ditched that and went towards the Just One O' The Guys spin.If it's adapted from 12th Night, why didn't they just do 12th Night straight up?
Is David Cross supposed to be Malvolio? I think that's decent casting. Or I guess it would be in 12th Night proper. I wonder who is Toby Belch? I ask a lot of questions though I never expect to actually see this flick. -
Can't tell me otherwise.
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Did David Cross use his no-nudity clause *again* ? Curse him. At least they could have had Jamie Lee Curtis as the mom.
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that the little brother from "Just One of the Guys" and the best bud from "Parker Lewis" are not the same person?
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and I'm Cyndi LauPIER.
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You guys review a lot of movies that you know you shouldn't, and every time you try to make it funny or ok in the first paragraph. Like when Kate and Leopold was reviewed...idiotic.
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It IS the same guy. Billy Jacoby.
He also goes by Billy or William Jane.
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Bynes popping out the twins would have been the only thing that could possibly make this movie good by any standard, 13-17 yo girls' opinions aside. I can't wait for the Princess Diaries 3 review and the Herbie Bends Lindsey Over a Couch review.
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An army of poo-slinging monkeys chained to typewriters have managed to knock out a version of "Twelfth Night," and then got one of their own to post a review about it.
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Al?l of the apostrophe?s loo?k like question marks? Tha?t doesn't make this har?d to read (like ev?erything els?e around he?re), no sir?.
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plant. nice tactics, though. he admitted that geeks will be flocking to V for Vendetta this weekend, but went for the gamble and suggested the double feature. Got to give them credit for just simply taking a swing for the fences, though. My double feature this weekend will be Tsotsi and then V for Vendetta. Sorry. Amanda Bynes sure is all growns up though. yikes.
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Since AICN is going feature reviews for stupid ass girl movies, where in fuck is the review for Cutting Edge 2? Didn't you all just wanna hate fuck Moira Kelly in the first movie? Mmmm, young Moira Kelly.
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The only thing that could ever get me to watch this is if Amanda Bynes does full frontal. This review was so obviously a plant.
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I knew it!
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I knew I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue...
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...EW did it last Friday.
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When it was called "Just One of the Guys" and she showed her tits
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Not knowing this reviewer's age ahead of time, anyone else creeped out by the fact he tells us exactly 4 times that underage girls will be at the movie as a selling point? Perv alert! Go see She's The Man and you too may be able to corner an underage girl behind your local theater. Oh, and also, plant.
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I call shenanigans.
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for the road-trip we all take to avoid this movie.
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on a script in the same vien as this, teenage movie spoof based on 12th night...I'd like more infomration on HOW this is based on 12th night other then the whole girl dresses as a guy, twin brother thing
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my friend took me to the premiere last week. i'm not really into teen comedies but it was surprisingly funny. i've never seen amanda in anything so i don't know if this is typical of her acting, but she was good. there are some seriously hot girls in it too.
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... 'cuz backseat is for punks, and the middle seat is for bitches. How about Hills Have Eyes for a destination?
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...then he's probably not really your friend.
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http://tinyurl.com/z78xn
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Treat yourself to a popkin!
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/01/27
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What could possibly make you consider taking up valuable space on your website with this crap? Are we gonna hear another plant give us a super review for Aquamarine too?
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The first ad I saw had a voice over busting out the plot along with names. Viola, Olivia, Sebastian etc etc
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Men dressing as women (or vice versa) is NEVER FUNNY, because it's painfully obvious whenever someone disguises oneself as the opposite sex.
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And that's saying a lot. How the fuck does something this obviously counterfeit even get put up on this site?
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Tootsie and Some Like It Hot.
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you like coldplay.
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No! Really?
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This movie was from the writers of "10 Things I Hate About You." Enough said. That was a terrible movie, so this will be too. The fact that the guy admits the selling point is Middle School and some High School girls, shows this movie will be worse than nails on a chalkboard.
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That actually makes me think it will be good...for what it is. I remember 10 Things came out in 99 when there was this huge glut of teen movies like She's All That coming out, most of which were truly horrible. I thought 10 Things I Hate About You was actually a cute little film with some amusing/funny moments, such as when Heath is being given the tour of the school and all the cliques are being pointed out such as the jocks, geeks, etc, and suddenly 3rd Rock kid is all, "and there's the cowboys" and there are some random cowboys sitting at a table. Hey, as I typed that I realized the cowboy thing has an extra meaning to it post Heath in Brokeback. But I digress. My point is, as a movie aimed at a teen audience, 10 Things did its job, was better then a lot of the crap made for the same audience and was fun and so if those folks wrote She's The Man, it might be more of the same.
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... it's lost some of it's luster, believe me.
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I thought "The Crying Game" was hysterical! Ribbit!
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