Average Rating: 3.8/10
Reviews Counted: 62
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 55
Boys and Girls feels like a cheap rip-off of When Harry Met Sally. The predictable and stale story fails to engage.
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 17
Boys and Girls feels like a cheap rip-off of When Harry Met Sally. The predictable and stale story fails to engage.
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Average Rating: 2.8/5
User Ratings: 27,329
In this romantic comedy, good friends change their feelings about each other over the course of their four years in college. Ryan (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and Jennifer (Claire Forlani) have known each other since grade school, though their oil-and-water personalities don't always mesh. Engineering student Ryan focuses on his studies and future career, while Jennifer likes loud music, partying, and not doing her homework. As they suffer their share of disastrous relationships, these two opposites
Jun 16, 2000 Wide
Nov 14, 2000
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The cast is so charming and assured that it puts across most of this with a reasonable amount of conviction.
This is less a movie than a casting call -- just round up a crowd of pretty young faces, fresh yet still familiar, and call it a job well done.
The larger motions [Boys and Girls] goes through are oh-so-tiresomely familiar.
You might wish for some of the grosser excesses of Road Trip or American Pie just to stay awake.
A screenful of nonstop charm and credibility.
[Boys and Girls] loses points for having the dreaded public place love pronouncement finale.
Silly star crossed sex obsessed love flick.
Prinze still delivers the faceless everyman performance he's given in his last few--make that all--his films.
While its parts are average to good, the sum of those parts is well above average. This film strikes a decent balance, despite its potential for childishness.
The latest entry in the summer teen sweepstakes is a bust.
It's a paint-by-numbers romantic comedy, but without the heart or laughs to make it work.
If [When Harry Met Sally...]never existed, this would be a passable romance; as it is, it looks more like a cheap ripoff.
It is not that it's implausible; it's just that in this case it's not very interesting, a situation not helped by the most pedestrian dialogue.
More serious than you'd expect.
Sleepless in Seattle this ain't.
We can see the plot points lumbering toward us like Godzilla in Death Valley...quips whipping through the air with the greatest of ease and with minimal impact.
Not for a moment could you believe you're watching actual, viable human beings.
There is rarely a single moment of originality or spontaneity to be found ... until the final credits sequence.
Awe come on everyone! This was cute. How can anything with Freddie in it be bad? Cute romantic comedy. Jason Biggs was pretty funny in this, which really added to it. Maybe not their best work, but I enjoyed it.
January 10, 2012Super Reviewer
This has got to be one of the most cheesy movies from the 00s. You have the ultimate teen nerd and the ultimate teen leading man thrown together with the roles reversed. A blue haired Jason Biggs is not necessarily something I asked to see, but it was a pleasant surprise none the less. It's a pretty typical boy meets
March 11, 2010Super Reviewer
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