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Head Over Heels

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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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Lisa Alspector

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 27 2007 05:20 PM

Chicago Reader

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Eugene Novikov

The screenwriters' desperation is palpable at times.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 22 2003 05:08 PM

Film Blather

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1.5/4

Jim Shelby

[It] just gets dumber and dumber.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 20 2003 05:08 PM

Palo Alto Weekly

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2/4

David Nusair

Head Over Heels isn't exactly terrible - it's just completely uninspired.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 19 2003 09:26 AM

Reel Film Reviews

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Eric Rosenberg

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 29 2003 08:06 AM

Hollywood.com

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1/5

John R. McEwen

The girls decide to conduct their own wacky investigation, with consequences that are at best negligibly humorous.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 08 2003 08:15 AM

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James Sanford

When your script calls for a suave, mysterious leading man and the best you can come up with is the bubble-bright Freddie Prinze, Jr., it's time to do some serious recasting.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 09 2002 07:56 PM

Kalamazoo Gazette

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Tim Cogshell

Between the ridiculous stereotypes and "stupid model" jokes, the comedy in Head Over Heels stands up. The romance, on the other hand, simmers but never really boils.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 05 2002 08:11 AM

Boxoffice Magazine

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1.5/4

Rick Groen

Head Over Heels may bear some superficial resemblance to a movie, but don't be fooled -- it's really just a marketing strategy, a loose assemblage of components each pitched to a particular demographic.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 19 2002 08:09 AM

Globe and Mail

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Karina Montgomery

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!

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 30 2001 07:59 PM

Cinerina

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Michael Dequina

When anyone's not delivering the groaners that pass for zingers, someone bumps into something and has a 'hilarious' pratfall.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 11 2001 01:27 PM

TheMovieReport.com

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Urban Cinefile Critics

A bright and breezy start goes nowhere in this ultimately miserable attempt to mix murder, mirth and romance.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 01 2001 03:59 PM

Urban Cinefile

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Jorge Avila Andrade

Lo más recomendable es que la tomen como una de las últimas opciones o que de plano vayan y renten algún buen video.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 11 2001 07:39 PM

Moviola

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Karen Moline

Rent Rear Window instead.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 16 2001 12:59 PM

Movieline

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Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel

I flipped for it.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 08 2001 01:17 PM

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Eric Monder

Gets overly contrived and tiresome, a bad imitation of an old screwball comedy.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 05 2001 11:49 AM

Film Journal International

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Sara Wildberger

[Teens] deserve decent movies, but instead they get glop like Head Over Heels. There ought to be a law.

comment Comment | Feb., 16 2001 05:35 PM

Miami Herald

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Mary F. Pols

A shallow dud.

comment Comment | Feb., 16 2001 05:34 PM

Contra Costa Times

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Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)

So synthetic and sticky that I kept picturing its frames printed on strips of fruit roll-ups.

comment Comment | Feb., 16 2001 05:34 PM

St. Paul Pioneer Press

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Brian McTavish

Isn't so much a story as it is a bunch of situations that boil down to crude jokes and even cruder sight gags.

comment Comment | Feb., 16 2001 05:33 PM

Kansas City Star

 
 
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