#140RVW
There’s practically no end of bad things about this movie, most of all the fact that I’ve seen it more than once. I’m a sucker for rom-coms.
What’s more:
I appreciate “actors” like Matthew Lillard; they let you know right away which movies to avoid. He’s like the modern Louis Gossett, Jr. If you want to find everything wrong with teen movies all at once…
God, this story is absolutely awful. How hard was this? It was a great play when it was Pygmalion, it was a better play when it was My Fair Lady. All you had to do was update slightly for the modern teen audience. Instead it was so badly botched that they had to hire M. Night Shyamalan to doctor the thing. It didn’t work.
If this story of mean rich teens wasn’t unlikable enough, they’ve cast it with actors who probably can’t even remember what high school was like, it was so long ago. And they cast TWO rappers – no movie can overcome that!
I don’t know who’s time is being most wasted here, Anna Paquin or Dulé Hill. This thing makes every wrong decision you can make. What a perfectly dreadful picture…
Poster:
Trailer:
Bechdel Test:
Pass, I guess…
The Representation Test Score: C (5 pts)
(http://therepresentationproject.org/grading-hollywood-the-representation-test/)
| Main Cast | Freddie Prinze Jr. Zack Siler, Rachael Leigh Cook Laney Boggs, Matthew Lillard Brock Hudson, Paul Walker Dean Sampson |
| Rating | PG-13 |
| Release Date | Fri 29 Jan 1999 UTC |
| Director | Robert Iscove |
| Genres | Comedy, Romance |
| Plot | A high school jock makes a bet that he can turn an unattractive girl into the school’s prom queen. |
| Poster |  |
| Runtime | 95 |
| Tagline | A new comedy that proves there’s more to attraction than meets the eye. |
| Writers | R. Lee Fleming Jr. (written by) |
| Year | 1999 |