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Craig Younkin
Movie Review
She's the Man
By Craig Younkin Published March 15, 2006
US Release: March 17, 2006
Directed by: Andy Fickman
Starring: Amanda Bynes , Channing Tatum , James Kirk , Laura Ramsey
PG-13
Running Time: 105 minutes
Domestic Box Office: $33,687,630
Directed by: Andy Fickman
Starring: Amanda Bynes , Channing Tatum , James Kirk , Laura Ramsey
PG-13
Running Time: 105 minutes
Domestic Box Office: $33,687,630
D+
This is one of those really bad girl-power flicks in which you can hear everyone who participated in the feminist movement crying as you watch it.
"She's the Man" is about Viv (Bynes), a soccer player whose season has been cut short by a school that won't fund girls? sports and a male chauvinist coach who won?t let her play with the boys? team. In the world of today, this could be settled with a couple lawsuits. Only this movie is aimed at young kids, where characters do insanely complicated and ridiculous things for no reason. She decides to become a boy (her brother Sebastian) and join his high school's team. What follows is a clumsy one-joke comedy in which she lets the girl inside the boy slip out, especially when it comes to the dreamy team captain. She is also forced into one of those situations where she has to change from boy to girl and back again.
This is a really tired transgender formula, and the gags are certainly old enough to fail with everyone except the really young girls this thing is aimed at. But what makes it even more painful is that Viv?s constant tom-boyish-ness is played more for broad laughs than for establishing a decent heroine with her own individuality. Viv is one of those movie-female characters who is so against becoming the lady her mom wants her to be that she has to act like a caveman during a debutante ball. Everything this character does seems irrational and insane, including getting into three fist-fights over the course of the movie. And to top it off, Bynes is way too feminine to even pull it off. Her attempt to sound like Vin Diesel is overshadowed by looking like K.D Lang and sounding like a bad K.D Lang impersonator. This is one of those really bad girl-power flicks in which you can hear everyone who participated in the feminist movement crying as you watch it.
This is a really tired transgender formula, and the gags are certainly old enough to fail with everyone except the really young girls this thing is aimed at. But what makes it even more painful is that Viv?s constant tom-boyish-ness is played more for broad laughs than for establishing a decent heroine with her own individuality. Viv is one of those movie-female characters who is so against becoming the lady her mom wants her to be that she has to act like a caveman during a debutante ball. Everything this character does seems irrational and insane, including getting into three fist-fights over the course of the movie. And to top it off, Bynes is way too feminine to even pull it off. Her attempt to sound like Vin Diesel is overshadowed by looking like K.D Lang and sounding like a bad K.D Lang impersonator. This is one of those really bad girl-power flicks in which you can hear everyone who participated in the feminist movement crying as you watch it.