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She's All That (1998)

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Reviews Counted:54

Fresh:20

Rotten:34

Average Rating:4.9/10

Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins

Genre: Comedies

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: This modern retelling of George Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION features Rachael Leigh Cook and Freddie Prinze Jr. as high-school students on two sides of the clique divide. Prinze stars as a high-school... This modern retelling of George Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION features Rachael Leigh Cook and Freddie Prinze Jr. as high-school students on two sides of the clique divide. Prinze stars as a high-school stud who makes a bet with a friend that he can transform the hopelessly geeky Cook into a prom queen. It turns out the transformation is even more successful than he could have imagined--before he knows it, he's fallen in love with her himself. SHE’S ALL THAT features Matthew Lillard, Anna Paquin, Paul Walker, and Kevin Pollak, as well as acting appearances for music artists Usher and Lil’ Kim. [More]

Starring: Rachael Leigh Cook, Freddie Prinze, Matthew Lillard, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Starring: Rachael Leigh Cook, Freddie Prinze, Matthew Lillard, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Usher Raymond, Anna Paquin, Paul Walker, Kevin Pollak, Kieran Culkin, Lil' Kim

Director: Robert Iscove

Director: Robert Iscove
Screenwriter: R. Lee Fleming
Story: George Bernard Shaw
Producer: Peter Abrams, Richard N. Gladstein, Robert L. Levy
Composer: Stewart Copeland

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If you’re, ya know, old -- like over 17 -- you’ll prob’ly think it’s majorly lame-o.

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
01/01/00
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Iscove's film has its own brand of charm and is reasonable enough in its ambitions that it's awfully hard to resist.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
08/07/07
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

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

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
08/07/07
Godfrey Cheshire
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.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
08/07/07
Lisa Alspector
Lisa Alspector
Chicago Reader

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.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

A formula flick.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/09/06
Derek Adams
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.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
Tom Meek
Tom Meek
Film Threat

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

Full Review Source: Nation | comment Comment
03/03/05
Stuart Klawans
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.

Full Review Source: Film Blather | comment Comment
05/22/03
Eugene Novikov
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?

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
05/20/03
Jim Shelby
Jim Shelby
Palo Alto Weekly

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

Full Review Source: Film Quips Online | comment Comment
02/08/03
John R. McEwen
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.

Full Review Source: Netflix | comment Comment
11/07/02
James Rocchi
James Rocchi
Netflix

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

Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer | comment Comment
10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
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...

Full Review Source: Montreal Film Journal | comment Comment
09/10/02
Kevin N. Laforest
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal

A trite classic.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
03/22/02
Rick Groen
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail

Adolescence was never supposed to be this wholesome.

Full Review Source: Sight and Sound | comment Comment
03/05/02
Geoffrey Macnab
Geoffrey Macnab
Sight and Sound

A spiffy comedy about an adorable underdog.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
03/03/02
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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.

Full Review Source: Cinerina | comment Comment
06/14/01
Karina Montgomery
Karina Montgomery
Cinerina

Much better than you might expect.

Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | comment Comment
02/27/01
James Kendrick
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

There are a few twists in the plot, but it is pretty standard stuff.

Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | comment Comment
01/01/01
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope
 
 
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