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| SHE'S ALL THAT (1999) - PG-13
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by Lew Irwin
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She's All That is all that is being offered in terms of new releases to audiences this weekend. The romantic comedy starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachael Leigh Cook is receiving mostly fair-to-middlin' reviews -- but a few kudos as well. Jay Carr in the Boston Globe, in fact, writes that it "bops the teen-sploitation movie index up a few notches" and "brightly surpasses expectations." and Kevin Thomas in the Los Angeles Times concludes that the filmmakers "have taken one of the movies' oldest stories [Pygmalion] and told it with wit and perception." Stephen Holden in the New York Times comments that "it has enough glimmerings of originality and wit to make you wish it were much bolder and funnier than it turns out to be." Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun Times writes that "She's All That is not a great movie, but it has its moments." Steve Murray in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution credits the writers for giving the film "some verbal zing." He adds: "And in its general sweetness, the movie is leagues beyond the rude, crude (and hugely successful) Varsity Blues" (another campus romance). But in the end, he says, the film amounts to nothing more than a "teen rebake of Pygmalion." |
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