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Critics Consensus: Boys and Girls feels like a cheap rip-off of When Harry Met Sally. The predictable and stale story fails to engage.
Critic Consensus: Boys and Girls feels like a cheap rip-off of When Harry Met Sally. The predictable and stale story fails to engage.
All Critics (62) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (55) | DVD (2)
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.
[Boys and Girls] loses points for having the dreaded public place love pronouncement finale.
The larger motions [Boys and Girls] goes through are oh-so-tiresomely familiar.
The year's worst movie.
[Claire Forlani] is way too classy for this sort of film.
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.
Recently picked this up for $3 second hand. I can remember being disappointed with it back in the 90's, but I couldn't really remember why. The cast are decent including Alyson Hannigan and Claire Forlani. I wondered if I had been harsh originally and decided to give it another go. Well, it all came flooding back. It's just not very good. Alyson is in it about five minutes. Freddie is wooden and Jason Biggs is the kiss of death. I like 90's teen films (generally) but there is much,much better out there. The way these kids talk and act does not ring true at all. For example, the whole scene on the plane - what 13 year old girl would seriously say all that stuff?? I can remember well being mortified, and wanting no one to know. Freddie is also not a good dork. Claire is a decent actress, but she wasn't convincing here either. I think the fault is in the script. It's just not well written, or especially engaging material. she's All That or Whatever it takes were better movies from this era and genre. Although it does pick up a bit at the end. Just takes a very, very long time to get there.
Super Reviewer
Not bad. Predictable, but still watchable.
Robert Iscove really has a niche. He directed my most pleasing of guilty pleasures, "From Justin to Kelly," as well as the 1999 "Kiss Me" klassic, "She's All That" (which really hasn't held up). In this little-known year 2000 sophomore effort, he combines his penchants for awkward meet-cutes, attracting opposites, and meticulously choreographed impromptu dance parties, and it all goes down smoother than a chicka-cherry cola. The movie shares many familiar ingredients of its predecessor and other 90s teen classics: Freddie Prinze Jr. (this time as the Lainey Boggs-esque nebbish pantywaist, rocking the sk8terboi middle-part), Jason Biggs (as the frosted-tipped doofus), sweet-red Alyson Hannigan, and the requisite everybody-knows-what-they're-doing dance sequence, scored by none other than Fatboy Slim! Although "She's All That" is probably most remembered for that iconic scene, the one here calls for less suspension of disbelief. Jennifer knows the dance moves, and Ryan tries to keep up, more or less succeeding by the end. The club scene is more organically woven into the story than the perfect Prom breakdown. The movie also starts out exactly like the more recent "No Strings Attached" (which probably borrowed from this) - Ryan and Jennifer meet several times over ten years - but unlike the puppets on strings that are the characters of NSA, R+J (heh) do more than navigate the aftermath of casual friend-sex; they navigate a real friendship complicated by the past, present, and future. The storyline isn't groundbreaking, but in comparison to all the movies "Boys and Girls" reminds me of, it has a stronger driving conflict. Claire Forlani is way too old to play a college gal, but she is charismatic, charming, smoldering, delicately bony, breathy, and willowy and wounded as usual. She also rocks some great fashions - that weird hoodie sweater vest/cargo pants/Chucks combo AND that white backless top/wide-leg pants ensemble. Yowza.
"Boys and Girls wasn't too bad of a film. It's about a girl who's a carefree soul befriending an uptight guy who believes that everything is supposse to be planned out. They continue to meet unexpectedly throughout their lives and officially become friends in college. They both agree that love is overrated, but keep falling into relationships that don't work out. Soon the line of a relationship and friendship gets blurred and things become awkward for them. The movie made me miss the good R&B music that came out of the 90's. The story is OK as well as the acting. Nothing special. But it was decent enough. Not something I would see again."
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