NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

mojchy21 I have seen She's the man so many times and I would not mind watching it again. It such a classic and in 50 years I am gonna still love it. Romantic movies might be all the same in one view. Two people love each other, they want to be together, have children, marry etc. But these movies differ in the way this is directed, with the behind story, with something that connects them. If they manage to do so as in this film the have all my attention and support. Some people would say romantic films are cheesy. Even after watching them they would say its boring or fall asleep. But maybe it is something wrong with them. They don't have a partner or are in a unhappy relationship.... And cant stand more complicated romantic affairs.Yes it is a comedy. But if you have an eye for energy, love and emotions you will like it. Amanda and Channing are perfect couple for this story. There could be no better.

oOoBarracuda Bringing all of the gender confusion and love triangulating of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night to a high school setting was a wonderful way to bring the bard's work to a younger generation. Andy Fickman's 2006 film She's the Man starring Amanda Bynes and Channing Tatum remained faithful to the 1601 work of Shakespeare with perfectly modern twists to engage a brand new audience. Much like Twelfth Night (1996), She;s the Man stayed true to Shakespeare's theme of gender confusion, She's the Man also brings secrecy and betrayal to the forefront more so than the bard himself. Even with gender roles reversed and interchangeable, the overarching message in She's the Man is what it means to confide in someone and how damaging it can be when trust is broken.High school student Viola Hastings (Amanda Bynes) is a star soccer player on her girl's soccer team. For Viola, soccer is life, which is why she feels as though her life is over when her school's girl's soccer team is cut. Viola and some of the girls go to the boy's soccer team and ask if they can join. Viola is sure that they will comply as her boyfriend is the goalie of the boy's team and has expressed to Viola that her talent exceeds half of the members of his team. When the boys scoff at the idea of having girls on their team and refuse the girls, Viola seeks revenge. Viola then learns that her twin brother Sebastian (James Kirk), newly enrolled at a new high school, is fleeing with his band for London and will miss his first two weeks of school. Viola decides to go to the new high school in her brother's place, make the soccer team, and beat her own high school's boys soccer team exacting revenge on her school and ex-boyfriend. Viola didn't expect to fall in love with her roommate Duke (Channing Tatum) who is trying to seduce the popular Olivia (Laura Ramsey). Olivia connects with Sebastian/Viola and eventually falls in love with her, not knowing, of course, that Sebastian is Viola in disguise. Calamity ensues when the real Sebastian returns from London early, unaware that he has been replaced at his school by his sister. The connections all throughout She's the Man to Twelfth Night were a pure joy for this literature buff. The artful ways in which they brought pieces of Shakespeare's tale of the modern day were wonderful. I especially appreciated naming the rival school that Viola attends in Sebastian's place that of the town Viola washed upon after the shipwreck in Twelfth Night. I also enjoyed the naming of the spider in She's the Man to bring about the source inspiration, as well. I especially enjoy a reimagined film that pays proper tribute to the version it is reimagining. The acting is nothing to write home about. It is a teen comedy with younger actors playing teenagers, nothing extraordinary, but all parts were played adequately. The music was the real clincher for She's the Man. The upbeat fun music really made the transformation for the bard's work of aristocracy to the high school halls in a great way.As mentioned before, and fleshed out in another review, Twelfth Night deals heavily with the theme of gender confusion, likewise, She's the Man does the same with the main character Viola dressing as her brother. What She's the Man does that Twelfth Night didn't do is focus primarily on secrets and betrayal. Much more emphasis was placed upon the secret Viola was keeping from her roommate in She's the Man than Viola's secret she was keeping from the Count in Twelfth Night. It was interesting to see that turn and the prominence placed on secret keeping in the reimagined work. Even the film's tagline begins with "Everybody has a secret...". The emphasis on this film certainly lies within all of the mini betrayals between the gender confusion, and all others involved with it. The shift from the curse of love to trust and secrets was an interesting choice and made for a slightly more engaging film. There's something in this film for everyone, and even if you ignore the bard's inspiration in the film, you will still come away enjoying it.

morphricky For a movie about a girl pretending to be a guy, there's obviously a big problem when that person looks and sounds nothing like a guy. It was hard to believe that people wouldn't figure it out sooner. Regularly through the movie she does awkward things that would blow her cover, but the guys always turn it into a joke so that they never figure it out. Because stopping nosebleeds with womens tampons is such a "dude" thing, right?The movie is one cliché after another. You already know how the movie will end by the time the characters reveal what they want. Viola wants to win the game? You know she will. Viola wants the hot guy? You know they'll make up in the end despite that she lied to him. Olivia wants Violas Sebastian disguise as a boyfriend? The real Sebastian conveniently falls in love with her.The movie isn't particularly funny either. I rarely watch comedies, so I was hoping for something to amuse me. The only thing that really had me chuckle was when the bald guy was talking to Violas disguise about hair-loss.

Python Hyena She's the Man (2006): Dir: Andy Fickson / Cast: Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum, Laura Ramsey, Vinnie Jones, James Kirk: Tired misfire about gender identities. When the female soccer team is cut, star player Amanda Bynes disguises herself as her twin brother who is off to London for a music presentation. As predicted, she struggles to adapt to her male teammates and we can sense the ending an hour before it has arrived. Director Andy Fickson pulls off fine soccer action but the screenplay offers nothing new and feels content on presenting elements that have been done to death. Bynes is pleasant but she deserves better material to exercise her comic talent. The fact that she looks no more like a male than Barbra Streisand in Yentl also doesn't help. Channing Tatum is featured as the standard love interest football player. It will shock no one that he and Bynes hook up. Other roles are flat including Laura Ramsey who crushes on Bynes's male side, as if that was a surprise. Vinnie Jones plays the standard bad ass coach who feels the need to be loud and forceful. James Kirk plays the twin brother of Bynes and one could say that he was switching places so that he could flee the set. Bynes may be the man here but she wasn't backed by one who could write a decent screenplay or present an idea worth writing about. Instead, this film should be kicked harder than the soccer ball. Score: 2 / 10