 A monthly "tweener" movie now appears obligatory in Hollywood, and this month's is She's the Man. It's the sort of movie many critics obviously dislike having to watch, let alone write about. Joel Siegel on ABC's Good Morning America, noting that the film is loosely based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, suggests that Shakespeare ought to sue, adding that the movie is "completely misdirected by an L.A. stage director whose sole advice to his cast seems to be: 'Mug as much as possible.'" Nevertheless, writes Lou Lumenick in the New York Post: "The target audience of 'tween girls will probably lap up She's the Man, even as their elders wince at the over-the-top acting in this clumsy, predictable, overlong update of Shakespeare's gender-bending Twelfth Night." Likewise Michael Booth concludes in the Denver Post: "It's refreshing, frankly, to see a PG-13 movie about high school girls that doesn't spit all over its rating; She's the Man is a very soft PG-13, and will not make parental escorts squirm with regret." |
