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Summary: A very funny and enjoyable Shakespeare teen remake
Comment: When I first saw this movie I didn't have high hopes about what to expect, so I was pleasantly
surprised to see that it isn't a boring or ridiculous, meaningless and irritating remake of a
classic, but rather a funny and very enjoyable teen movie. The story is loosely based on
Shakespeare's Twelth Night, so if you are familiar with the play, then you have an idea about whats
going to happen, but what I liked about this movie were the unexpected, surprising turns, and the
very funny and laugh out loud way it brought them!

Amanda Bynes is great, and the lead
actor is quite the eye candy, and of course all the other supporting characters and actors are great
too.

I'm not a teen anymore, I'm 23, but I have seen this movie several times, even
with some of my guy friends, and even they liked it.

If you want to spend a rainy
afternoon/a cold night after a tiring day with a nice chick flick or just feel the need for some
comfort-movie, this one is an excellent choice, you'll soon forget about everything and will just
enjoy this light comedy.

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Summary: Actually really good despite buying it for the wrong reason!
Comment: Ok, so I admit to buying this for the only reason of watching Channing (hubba hubba) Channing -
because well, he's gorgeous. And putting aside the fact that I find Amanda Bynes cutie-pie, sweeter
than sugar, pain-stakingly sickly demeanor completely repulsive - I found that I could actually
tolerate her in this and found her to play her character very well and provide a good portion of the
laughs throughout the film.
The only downside is the fact that it's set around football or
soccer as the American's like to call it.
I think I many possibly be among the very few in the
entirety of the UK, to actually despise football and so to watch those scenes was pretty tiresome at
times - although thankfully, there are not that many.
Overall, a good chick flick with some
nice man-candy moments.

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Summary: a fantastic funny film
Comment: amanda bynes does it again with her shameless comedy roles! a hilarious rom com that involves a
tomboy with a passion for football(soccer) that disguises as her twin brother at his college when
the coach at her school decides to get rid of the girls football team and tries out for the boys
team there (and of course in true chick flick style there is a love interest) being a huge amanda
bynes fan due to the fact that she is not afraid to make herself look stupid unlike most teenage
girl actors,i think you will find this is a laugh out loud movie that will have you in stitches.

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Summary: Surprisingly Hilarious, Thanks to Amanda Bynes' Boundless Enthusiasm
Comment: Boosted by the considerable comic talents of the enthusiastic, energetic Amanda Bynes -- she who
also boosted "Big Fat Liar", "What a Girl Wants" and even her own "Amanda Show" -- 2006's "She's the
Man" can be forgiven its flaws in the simplistic plotting department. Owing its inspiration multiple
cross-dressing-esque movies, primarily "Twelfth Night" and "Just One of the Guys", "She's the Man"
is a surprisingly good teen comedy that consistently envokes laughter right up until the pat,
slightly irritating conclusion. The fact that it hinges on the comedic performance of Amanda Bynes
practically guarantees a winning movie.

Viola Hastings (Amanda Bynes) is about to begin
attendance in her senior year at high school. However, when she finds out that the girl's soccer
team has been cut from the sports curriculum she decides to switch places with her boarding
school-bound twin brother Sebastian (James Kirk), who has instead decided to go to London rather
than attend the first two weeks at his new school. Viola gets on the boy's soccer team at her
brother's school disguised as him and targets the opening game of the season to beat the tar out of
her own school's boys team. Naturally the problems in dressing and acting like the opposite sex
present themselves. She has to shower in the early hours of the morning, gets a crush on her
room-mate Duke (Channing Tatum), has another girl who thinks she's Sebastian get a crush on her, and
numerous other hinderances.

As previously stated, the comic talents of Amanda Bynes are
pivotal in "She's the Man". Thankfully, Bynes injects vast amounts of enthusiasm, spontaneity,
charm, sweetness, humour and heart into her role, standing as the sole reason that this movie
actually worked. Other than Bynes, the performances on hand elsewhere range between the good and the
bad. Channing Tatum is annoying as Viola's room-mate Duke, moreso than he probably should be. Laura
Ramsey, an unfortunate victim of 2006's awful "The Covenant", gives a noteworthy performance far
exceeding hers in the aforementioned dud. James Kirk isn't the spitting image of Bynes but certainly
has a passing resemblance, when it comes to actual acting skill, however, there's a vast difference
between the two.

"She's the Man" may not be the most intelligent comedy to have come
out recently, but pitted against the likes of some specific others might as well be the height of
comic genius. The scripting is relatively clunky and flawed, given its comedic punch solely by the
line deliveries of its lead actress. Anyone else given one of the bland jokes to recite fails
totally in envoking the same sort of hysterical reaction.

The movie eventually winds
down to the predictable conclusion when everybody finds out simultaneously about what's been going
on. Half the ending works (the football game) and the other half of the ending is clunky and pat
(the whole romantic revelations). On evaluation, it actually fits in with what has came before it in
the sense thats it's far from perfect and hit-or-miss. But at least the rest of the movie had more
hits than the misses.

Originality is blatantly strife with "She's the Man". But given
the immense talents of Amanda Bynes the movie makes up for its originality by succeding in the
laughter department, and that's the reason why you'd be watching it anyway. So it works, its good.

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Summary: Not nearly funny enough
Comment: No, I don't know why I watched this one, either. Anyway, here goes the story (with a complimentary
credit to one W. Shakespeare, whose play Twelfth Night provided inspiration): Irritating brat Viola
wants to play what our American friends call soccer, but she finds her ambitions thwarted by the
cancellation of her girl's team. Her solution is to disguise herself as her brother and attend his
school, joining the boy's team and getting herself into one tedious and unfunny scrape after
another.

My biggest problem with this one was the film's star, Amanda Bynes, who is
perhaps a little too young to pull off this kind of comedy. She tries her best to achieve a likable
precociousness, but more often than not just seems obnoxious and annoying. Also, her bizarre mugging
is ludicrously over the top, and she has one scene in particular where she arrives at school and
runs a gamut of facial expressions that would put Jim Carrey to shame. It doesn't help that her
`disguise' makes her look very much like a girl with short hair, which means the film's conceit is
difficult to swallow. Unless, of course, I missed the scene where it's explained that everyone at
her new school is either half blind or developmentally challenged.

Two things saved
She's The Man from one star ignominy. One is Arrested Development's David Cross, who does his best
as the school principal. The other is Emily Perkins, who you may remember from Canadian teen
werewolf film Ginger Snaps, as funny nerd Eunice. If only she had been given a few more scenes or,
better still, the starring role.

So distraught was I by this dismally unfunny film,
after my ordeal was over I used a ouija board to contact William Shakespeare and offer my
condolences, but I don't think it did much good. The poor guy - he's still not over Ten Things I
Hate About You.

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