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Head Over Heels (2001)
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Reviews Counted:85
Fresh:8
Rotten:77
Average Rating:3.3/10
Consensus: Head Over Heels is being blasted by critics as a huge mess. The plot and jokes are idiotic, while the toilet humor is gratuitous and more gross than funny.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] sexual content, crude humor and language
Runtime: 87 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Feb 2, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $9,892,550
Synopsis: Amanda (Monica Potter) is a nice, regular girl who moves to New York to work as an art restorer, and begins sharing an apartment with four quirky roommates who are all fashion models. She keeps... Amanda (Monica Potter) is a nice, regular girl who moves to New York to work as an art restorer, and begins sharing an apartment with four quirky roommates who are all fashion models. She keeps bumping into Jim Winston (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), the seriously cute boy who lives in the apartment building across the street, who weakens her knees and fumbles her words. Having resolved herself to hopelessly peeping through his window, Amanda's sympathetic and seriously fashionable roommates finally dress her and make her up to crash a party he's throwing. Relaxed and feeling beautiful, Amanda finally speaks to Jim, and he at last discovers her charms and asks her out. Returning to her apartment on cloud nine later that evening, she spies him apparently committing a murder, and calls the police. The cops assume Amanda and the girls are just airhead models and dismiss the claim. Even her roomies are unsure, but find themselves swept up in the drama of Amanda's REAR WINDOW-esque investigation. Filled with good-natured pokes at models and the fashion industry, HEAD OVER HEELS is a romantic comedy powered by an energetic 1980s-style soundtrack and directed by Mark S. Waters (THE HOUSE OF YES). [More]
Starring: Monica Potter, Freddie Prinze, Shalom Harlow, Sarah O'Hare
Starring: Monica Potter, Freddie Prinze, Shalom Harlow, Sarah O'Hare, China Chow, Ivana Milicevic, Tomiko Fraser
Director: Mark Waters
Director: Mark Waters
Producer: Robert Simonds
Screenwriter: Edward Decter, John J. Strauss, Ron Burch, David Kidd
Composer: Randy Edelman, Steve Porcaro
Studio: Universal Pictures
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Reviews for Head Over Heels
What it lacks in the screenplay ... is countered by buoyant performances all around.
Potter ... is a charming on-screen surrogate for the young girls in the audience.
This is no Oscar nominee, but it's a sweet, funny, refreshingly different movie about models, a woman & the guy she loves, who may or may not be a murderer. Hee!
The best jokes are on the models and the men who pursue them, and Shalom Harlow, Ivana Milicevic, Sarah O'Hare, and Tomiko Fraser -- the real models who play Potter's roommates --are very good sports.
This otherwise predictable romantic comedy does have several genuinely funny scenes, thanks to Monica Potter's comic delivery and charm.
Grows on you like a warm, fuzzy fungus, overcoming your better judgment with a lively pace and a surprising number of laughs.
If you need more substance than a supermodel can supply, head over to another flick.
Head Over Heels, like Mr. Prinze's other movies, exists in a realm beyond sense, and it induces in the viewer a trancelike state, leaving the mind free to ponder the mysteries of the universe.
This is a movie that is totally forgettable. As a matter of fact, I've forgotten about it already.
Isn't so much a story as it is a bunch of situations that boil down to crude jokes and even cruder sight gags.
Potter has the presence, charisma, looks and talent to be a romantic comedy star, but Head Over Heels is the wrong movie to push that effort forward.
So synthetic and sticky that I kept picturing its frames printed on strips of fruit roll-ups.
Beware films packing the one-two punch of Freddie Prinze, Jr. as romantic lead and supermodels as objects of toilet humor.
Just like an unholy creature put together from the dead, Head Over Heels threatens to fall apart in motion and lives up to its pledge.
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