Light stuff, the cinematic equivalent of the airy wax paper that separates cold cuts on a delicatessen scale.
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02/02/01
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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.
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... [More]
Starring: Monica Potter, Freddie Prinze, Shalom Harlow, Sarah O'Hare
Director: Mark Waters
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Reviews for Head Over Heels
Top CriticPotter ... is a charming on-screen surrogate for the young girls in the audience.
02/02/01
The setting and the premise are promising, but the creators unduly complicate matters with a silly murder-mystery subplot.
02/02/01
Grows on you like a warm, fuzzy fungus, overcoming your better judgment with a lively pace and a surprising number of laughs.
02/02/01
Has the dubious, if rock-solid, distinction of being the first truly tasteless motion picture of 2001.
02/02/01
[Prinze's] acting has the soulful depth of a glass of Nestle's Quick, the complex nuances of a toasted slice of Wonder Bread.
02/02/01
The frosting is laid on with a forklift in Head Over Heels, an appropriately generic title for generic teen entertainment.
02/02/01
Top CriticHead 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.
02/02/01
Top CriticMight charitably be called Rear Window for morons.
02/02/01
Top CriticNever achieves the comic momentum it seeks.
02/02/01
This thing is all over the place.
02/02/01
You Should Pay Nine Bucks to See This If: You just can't bear to wait for HBO, which is where it really deserves to be seen.
02/02/01
Proves itself far sillier in far more ways than one film should attempt on its own.
02/02/01
Top CriticIf you need more substance than a supermodel can supply, head over to another flick.
02/02/01
Not only militantly vapid but also disgusting and mean-spirited.
02/02/01
Top CriticIf lawmakers really wanted to do some good, they'd write a law prohibiting Freddie Prinze Jr. from ever making another film.
02/02/01
It's as if the production was a fight to the death between bright people with a sense of humor, and cretins who think the audience is as stupid as they are.
02/02/01
Top CriticA lame romantic comedy that is neither romantic nor comedic.
02/02/01
Top CriticWaters can't develop a consistent tone, and the script -- credited to no less than four writers -- crumbles like cheap eyeshadow.
02/02/01
Beware films packing the one-two punch of Freddie Prinze, Jr. as romantic lead and supermodels as objects of toilet humor.
02/02/01
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