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She's All That (1999)

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Average Rating: 4.9/10
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If Hollywood can shoehorn William Shakespeare into the teen-movie treatment with Romeo and Juliet, and Jane Austen with Clueless (from her novel, Emma), why not George Bernard Shaw? While his Pygmalion has been staged and filmed endless times, most famously as the musical My Fair Lady, here Shaw goes to high school. This time around, a Los Angeles' school's most popular guy Zack (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) loses his girlfriend Taylor (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) to television star Brock Hudson (Scream's Matthew

PG-13, 2 hr.

Drama, Romance, Comedy

Directed By: Robert Iscove

Written By: R. Lee Fleming

In Theaters: Jan 29, 1999 Wide

On DVD: Jan 15, 2002

Miramax

She's All That feels like it could have been made by a team of septuagenarians from the glory days of American Intl. Pictures.

August 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety

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Godfrey Cheshire

Variety

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It's often impossible to distinguish what's meant to be cartoonish from what's meant to be dramatic, but the confusion seems appropriately adolescent.

August 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Lisa Alspector

Chicago Reader

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A trite classic.

March 22, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail

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Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

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In the process of discovering each other, both Laney and Zack learn that it's as OK to change as it is to stay the same, perhaps even better.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Salon.com

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Mary Elizabeth Williams

Salon.com

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It's a pleasing but routine effort.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

Director Robert Iscove isn't really taxing his imagination, but that's probably just as well.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: CNN.com

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Paul Tatara

CNN.com

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Uneven "ugly duckling" teen flick.

December 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

Iscove's film has its own brand of charm and is reasonable enough in its ambitions that it's awfully hard to resist.

August 7, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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Ken Fox

TV Guide's Movie Guide

She's All That is not likely to make a mark or be remembered by anyone for very long, but it's harmless enough and useful for finding the finer points of this genre.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

A formula flick.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Derek Adams

Time Out

The tempo of the film does well to cure the unlikely romance with just the right amount of anxiety and the leads -- especially Cook, who is wonderfully promising here -- create an earnestly heartfelt chemistry.

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat

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Tom Meek

Film Threat

With She's All That, we see how true garbage may nevertheless teem with a life of its own.

March 3, 2005 Comment

Stuart Klawans

Nation

It's wretchedly predictable, inconsistently funny and not always well-written. It's enjoyable enough, but a truly good movie it's not.

May 22, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Blather

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Eugene Novikov

Film Blather

Considering that all of us (even, one surmises, the young viewers smack in the hairlines of this movie's demographic gunsights) can guess where this story is going, why is the last third of this film so unrelentingly slow?

May 20, 2003 Comment

Jim Shelby

Palo Alto Weekly

The dance stops eventually, and then those darn kids start talking again. Way to ruin the mood.

February 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Quips Online

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John R. McEwen

Film Quips Online

Contains just enough of a message about self-worth and honesty to lend some moral nutrition to the entertainment calories it provides so capably.

November 7, 2002 Full Review Source: Netflix

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James Rocchi

Netflix

She's All That showcases a pair of bright young stars whose charms partially camouflage a predictable plot.

October 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer

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Margaret A. McGurk

Cincinnati Enquirer

I gotta admit that it's kinda enjoyable, in a sugarcoated l'il story for a rainy afternoon way, but still...

September 10, 2002 Full Review Source: Montreal Film Journal

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Kevin N. Laforest

Montreal Film Journal

Adolescence was never supposed to be this wholesome.

March 5, 2002 Full Review Source: Sight and Sound

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Geoffrey Macnab

Sight and Sound

A spiffy comedy about an adorable underdog.

March 3, 2002 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality and Practice

It is amazing that they can swipe a classic tale like [Pygmalion] and still add nothing but derivative tack-on flava to it.

June 14, 2001 Full Review | Comment

Karina Montgomery

Cinerina

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This is a really sweet and funny movie. Rachel Leigh Cook was really cute even with her glasses and Freddie Prinze Jr. set all the guys straight about after you make a bet you don't think of it as a bet. I also thought that Rachel Leigh Cook's fast way of talking was cute and I love that Kiss Me song. :) This is a

June 8, 2008

Cassie Hill

Super Reviewer

Quirky but funny film that made me relate back to 'Not Another Teen Movie' Because of this I knew the ending already but it was a good film! Not great, but good!

June 23, 2011