Critic Reviews
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Godfrey Cheshire, Variety
She's All That feels like it could have been made by a team of septuagenarians from the glory days of American Intl. Pictures.
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Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
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.
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Derek Adams, Time Out
A formula flick.
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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
A trite classic.
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Paul Tatara, CNN.com
Director Robert Iscove isn't really taxing his imagination, but that's probably just as well.
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Stephen Holden, New York Times
She's All That is essentially a formulaic comedy, but it has enough glimmerings of originality and wit to make you wish it were much bolder and funnier than it turns out to be.
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Felix Vasquez Jr., Cinema Crazed
A laughable film and one that doesn't need a spoof to show how idiotic it tends to be.
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Nell Minow, Common Sense Media
Uneven "ugly duckling" teen flick.
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Ken Fox, TV Guide's Movie Guide
Iscove's film has its own brand of charm and is reasonable enough in its ambitions that it's awfully hard to resist.
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Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
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.
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Tom Meek, Film Threat
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.
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Stuart Klawans, The Nation
With She's All That, we see how true garbage may nevertheless teem with a life of its own.
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Eugene Novikov, Film Blather
It's wretchedly predictable, inconsistently funny and not always well-written. It's enjoyable enough, but a truly good movie it's not.
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Jim Shelby, Palo Alto Weekly
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?
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John R. McEwen, Film Quips Online
The dance stops eventually, and then those darn kids start talking again. Way to ruin the mood.
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James Rocchi, Netflix
Contains just enough of a message about self-worth and honesty to lend some moral nutrition to the entertainment calories it provides so capably.
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Margaret A. McGurk, Cincinnati Enquirer
She's All That showcases a pair of bright young stars whose charms partially camouflage a predictable plot.
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Kevin N. Laforest, Montreal Film Journal
I gotta admit that it's kinda enjoyable, in a sugarcoated l'il story for a rainy afternoon way, but still...
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Geoffrey Macnab, Sight and Sound
Adolescence was never supposed to be this wholesome.
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Featured Audience Ratings
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Rachael Leigh Cook is hot, mm'kay? In trying to uglify herself though, she contracts an unfortunate case of Vapid Face Syndrome.
To slake a hankering for classic 90s teen movie, I gave "She's All That" a re-gander and found that it hasn't held up like… More
Rachael Leigh Cook is hot, mm'kay? In trying to uglify herself though, she contracts an unfortunate case of Vapid Face Syndrome.
To slake a hankering for classic 90s teen movie, I gave "She's All That" a re-gander and found that it hasn't held up like "10 Things I Hate About You" or "Clueless" or even the first two "American Pies." This "Pygmalion"-lite is deserving of its "Not Another Teen Movie" treatment with its easily recognizable stereotypes and suspension of disbelief. Ducky-esque Jesse is blustery and useless, and even the group dance to Fatboy Slim's "The Rockafeller Skank" (of which I never knew the title) seems lame and dated.
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An old favourite I recently rewatched. Yes, it's far fetched, particularly the casting of Rachael Leigh Cook as an ugly girl, but is just such a nice film, I don't really care.
Great cast - whatever happened to Clea Duvall and Jodi Lynn O'Keefe? Never seem to see them… More
An old favourite I recently rewatched. Yes, it's far fetched, particularly the casting of Rachael Leigh Cook as an ugly girl, but is just such a nice film, I don't really care.
Great cast - whatever happened to Clea Duvall and Jodi Lynn O'Keefe? Never seem to see them anymore. Also small cameo by Sarah Michelle Gellar and fun to see a very young Anna Paquin. Freddie has a nice presence in this too.
Nice 90's teen movie, one of the better ones.
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Undeniably cheesy and excessive, this teen comedy at least has a heart and some witty moments to go along with the stupid parts. The acting isn't all that great, but it doesn't really detract from the film because it is so over the top anyways. It has some funny scenes and… More
Undeniably cheesy and excessive, this teen comedy at least has a heart and some witty moments to go along with the stupid parts. The acting isn't all that great, but it doesn't really detract from the film because it is so over the top anyways. It has some funny scenes and is at least fun to watch. It has kind of endured as a 90's teen classic somehow and has been parodied a few times, which is funny considering how over the top this already is.
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This is a really sweet and funny movie. Rachel Leigh Cook was really cute even with her glasses and Freddie Prinze Jr. set all the guys straight about after you make a bet you don't think of it as a bet. I also thought that Rachel Leigh Cook's fast way of talking was cute… More
This is a really sweet and funny movie. Rachel Leigh Cook was really cute even with her glasses and Freddie Prinze Jr. set all the guys straight about after you make a bet you don't think of it as a bet. I also thought that Rachel Leigh Cook's fast way of talking was cute and I love that Kiss Me song. :) This is a great 90s teen comedy. :) A movie you can watch over and over again. :) Great movie. :) I love it.! :) My dad even liked it! lol. :) Love it! :) Freddie is just toooo cute!!! :) Love it, love it, love it!
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Quirky but funny film that made me relate back to 'Not Another Teen Movie' Because of this I knew the ending already but it was a good film! Not great, but good!
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Except for one part where the bad boys had to eat pubes pizza for teasing Simon Boggs (Kieran Culkin), I liked the whole movie. The idea of this movie is like ancient - popular guy having a popular bitchy girlfriend and later on breaking up and he again fall for the unpopular girl and… More
Except for one part where the bad boys had to eat pubes pizza for teasing Simon Boggs (Kieran Culkin), I liked the whole movie. The idea of this movie is like ancient - popular guy having a popular bitchy girlfriend and later on breaking up and he again fall for the unpopular girl and some problems occur but they solve it and they live happily ever after (I bet you've watched this kinda movie before). The prom dance was awesome.
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Surprisingly watchable teen romance feature adorable Freddie Prinze Jr. as the cool dude on campus who accepts a bet to play "Professor Higgins" to a cause-conscious but nerdy "Eliza Doolittle" (Rachel Leigh Cook). Despite the lesson about looks not defining a… More
Surprisingly watchable teen romance feature adorable Freddie Prinze Jr. as the cool dude on campus who accepts a bet to play "Professor Higgins" to a cause-conscious but nerdy "Eliza Doolittle" (Rachel Leigh Cook). Despite the lesson about looks not defining a person, which gives this film a John Hughes feel, there are plenty of fun, silly moments that guarantee at least a wide grin.
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Freddie Prinze Jr. is so ugly that it's impossible to believe that he would even stand a chance with Rachel Leigh Cook, much less play popular to her wallflower character. (But that's not why I didn't like this. Just something to point out. Anyway.) I hated it because… More
Freddie Prinze Jr. is so ugly that it's impossible to believe that he would even stand a chance with Rachel Leigh Cook, much less play popular to her wallflower character. (But that's not why I didn't like this. Just something to point out. Anyway.) I hated it because it was cliche. And not in a guilty-pleasure way either.
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Love the music. Good rom com about the popular guy falling for the misfit girl.
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Thanks for making shitty high school movies popular again.
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A pretty good, funny chick flick with plenty of well known faces appearing. A boy has a bet he can turn any girl into a prom queen, and they choose the geekiest, tom boy they can.......will he succeed?
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Another teen flick but i guess its more tolerable than a lot of the other movies like it
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I kind of liked this cheesy teen flick.
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One of the stupidest teeny bopper movies I've seen.
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this was ok but i probably wouldn't want to watch it again
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whats up with that kid eating pubic hair. ruined the whole movie. oh, and high school is not really like that for about 99% of people. this story is greatly exhagerated
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Hoorah to the losers in school.
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<b>She's All That</b> follows the same basic plot line we've all seen millions of times over. The reason this movie was as entertaining as it was, was due to both <i>Freddie Prinze Jr.</i> and <i>Rachael Leigh Cook</i>. They have this… More
<b>She's All That</b> follows the same basic plot line we've all seen millions of times over. The reason this movie was as entertaining as it was, was due to both <i>Freddie Prinze Jr.</i> and <i>Rachael Leigh Cook</i>. They have this likeable quality about them, that makes you want them to be happy together. Of course, in a movie like this, all the characters are pretty stereotypical. There's also the supporting cast including <i>Anna Paquin</i> as <i>Mackenzie Siler</i>, <i>Zack Siler</i>'s sister, and <i>Kieran Culkin</i> as <i>Simon Boggs</i>, <i>Laney Boogs</i>' little brother, <i>Elden Henson</i> as <i>Laney Boogs</i>' nerdy good friend, not forgetting a very subdued performance of <i>Wayne Boggs</i>, <i>Laney Boogs</i>' father from <i>Kevin Pollak</i>. Of course there's the two camps of followers and the soundtrack music, yet the story's told in a pretty good pace, event after event with timely interludes. Kudos to director <i>Robert Iscove</i> and writer <i>R. Lee Fleming Jr.</i> All in all a wholesome teenage tale with no violence nor sex. The one thing that sort of bothered me about the two main stars was that they looked too far apart in age at time. I figure they're both supposed to be seniors in high school, but he looks 20, and she looks 14. <b>She's All That</b> was a fun movie to watch. Nothing unexpected happens and you all know what's going to happen right from the start, but with <i>Freddie Prinze Jr.</i> and <i>Rachael Leigh Cook</i> leading the way, it's still a good movie to see.
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Such a cliche chick flick that only unpopular, I have no life teens would watch it.
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