Friday, March 17, 2006

She’s the Man (***)


Amanda Bynes gets the laughs in this teen comedy in which her character has to pretend to be a boy if she wants to play soccer.

What do when you’re a female soccer player and your high school cancels the girls’ team? I guess a lawsuit would take too much time, so instead our perky heroine (Amanda Bynes) dresses up as her brother so she can play on the boys’ team. She has to remember that boys talk differently, don’t openly lust after their heterosexual male roommates, and, of course, don’t cry—except when a soccer ball hits them in the crotch. I think the scenario would have been slightly more believable if all the other students in the school hadn’t looked to be in their mid-20s, but Bynes herself does a good job. In the end, this is basically still just a typical teen movie. (If you’ve seen Tootsie, the same romantic complications ensue.) Still, it makes the most of the premise, and made me laugh.

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posted 9/6/13 

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