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Editorial Review:
This charming update of Pygmalion (by way of the John Hughes oeuvre, most notably Pretty in Pink) rode the crest of the late-'90s wave of immensely popular teen films (Varsity Blues, etc.), thanks primarily to the immense charisma of its two leads, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachael Leigh Cook. When school star Zach (Prinze)--who's a jock, smart, and popular--gets dumped by vacuous Taylor (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) after spring break, he's left dateless for the all-important prom. With a little goading from his less-than-sensitive best friend (hunky Paul Walker), he bets that he can make any girl into prom queen a mere eight weeks before the dance. The object of their wager: misfit Laney (Cook), a gawky art student too busy with her paintings and taking care of her brother and dad to worry about school politics. However, after a couple looks from Zach, and a few dates that reveal him to be a hunk of substance, Laney's armor begins to melt--and her stock at school soars. Soon enough, she's the lone candidate for prom queen against the bitchy and relentless Taylor.

What elevates She's All That above the realm of standard teen fare is its mixture of good-natured fairy-tale romance and surprisingly clear-eyed view of high school social strata. The lines of class are demarcated as clearly as if in a Jane Austen novel, but the satire is equally deflating and affectionate. Sure, high school could be bad sometimes, but it was lots of fun too; this is a movie good-natured enough to take time out for an extended hip-hop dance number at the prom. Director Robert Iscove (who also helmed the Brandy-starring TV adaptation of Cinderella) has also assembled a great young cast, including a scene-stealing Anna Paquin as Zach's no-nonsense sister, Kieran Culkin as Laney's geeky brother, and a stupidly goofy Matthew Lillard as a Real World cast member whose arrival shakes things up a little too much. And amidst all the comedy and prom drama, you'd be hard-pressed to find two teen stars as talented, attractive, and appealing as Prinze and Cook. Prinze is an approachable and sensitive jock, though it's Cook who's the true star, investing Laney with confidence, humor, and heart. Like Zach, you'll be hard-pressed not to fall in love with her. By the story's end, both Cook and the film will have charmed the socks off of you. --Mark Englehart

She's All That [Region 2] Reviews:
10 Things I Hate About She's All That
2009-06-16 - 1. Freddie Prinze Jr.'s character, Zach Siler, was likable, but was he believable? He was a jock, but he was a nice guy. Yeah, right. His big dilemma was whether he should go to Dartmouth or Harvard. And we care and feel sympathy because??? Also, he was the BMOC, but why? Because he was class president and the captain of the soccer team? Who cares about soccer? This is America, and football rules. And not the football that sissy Europeans mean when they say football.

2. Rachael Leigh Cook was so short; she really looked like she belonged in kindergarten. Rachael Leigh Cook? Try Rachael "Short Order" Cook. Her character's name, Laney Boggs, was a nod to Wynona Ryder as Lelaina "Laney" Pierce in Reality Bites and Kim Boggs in Edward Scissorhands. I knew Wynona Ryder when she shoplifted in a store I worked at, and Rachael Leigh Cook is no Wynona Ryder. Also, she didn't make a convincing artist, or even a convincing art student. The script didn't take her art seriously, and why should we? Her performance art was a string of hackneyed clichés. I mean, come on. Midgets writhing under a sheet? Been there, done that.

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Zach Siler: What was that?
Laney Boggs: I was busy.
Zach Siler: Yeah, busy wiggin'.
Laney Boggs: I did not wig.
Zach Siler: Oh, there was major wiggage.
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3. Matthew Lillard was Reality TV 'star' Brock Hudson. What kind of name is Brock Hudson? If the whole Reality TV shtick wasn't so done, over, and overdone, it MIGHT have been an effective parody. I like that Rick James song, "Give It To Me, Baby" and it didn't deserve the treatment it got from Brock Hudson's choreography.

4. Paul Walker was Zach's rival, Dean Sampson. He was much better as Lance Harbor in Varsity Blues, made the same year as SAT (She's All That). Varsity Blues was funnier, and also more dramatic. Varsity Blues was what SAT wishes it could have been.

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Dean Sampson: His dad owns Harrison Ford.
Laney Boggs: The actor?
Dean Sampson: No, the car dealership.
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5. Jodi Lyn O'Keefe as Prom Queen Taylor Vaughan was just so lame. I REALLY didn't care. She was supposed to be such a major diva, but she was a major drag. It would have been slightly better if Laney Boggs had stood up to her when she poured her drink down Laney's insubstantial décolletage. A perfectly good cat fight opportunity tossed away. At least Zach should have done SOMETHING. While playing Nash Bridges' daughter, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe was rumored to be involved with Don's Johnson.

6. Anna Paquin was Mackenzie Siler, Zach's sister. What a waste of an Oscar winner. What few good lines there were, were mostly Pacquin's, but that's not saying much.

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Mackenzie Siler: When was the last time you tweezed?
Laney Boggs: What?
Mackenzie Siler: I mean your eyebrows.
Laney Boggs: Never, why?
Mackenzie Siler: Ever watch Sesame Street?
Laney Boggs: Yeah.
Mackenzie Siler: You know Bert?
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7. Kieran Culkin as Simon Boggs was another waste of resources. At least Zach stood up to Simon's bullies--which kind of made me question his priorities when he did absolutely nothing when Laney was being bullied by Taylor. Kieran Culkin excelled as Buster in The Cider House Rules. I wonder if Kieran was any good in Igby Goes Down?

8. Gabrielle Union was Katie, and she was also Chastity in 10 Things I Hate About You. In both movies, she played a friend or sidekick, and would have been much more interesting to focus on than the ostensible main characters. Is it because she's black? With Dulé Hill as Preston, I wonder the same thing. He played a complex character on The West Wing very well, but isn't given much to do in SAT.

9. Elden Henson as Jesse Jackson was the chubby friend of Laney, always supportive, always there for her. In a very minor subplot, he may have hooked up with Zach's sister Mackenzie at the prom. This character should have been gay. That would have been more realistic, by far. Compare him to the character who was Lindsay Lohan's friend in Mean Girls, and it is no contest. What's up with that name, Jesse Jackson? Is that supposed to be funny? Less funny, even, than Brock Hudson.

10. Usher Raymond was the Campus D.J. and Kimberly 'Lil' Kim' Jones was Alex, and they represent yet more missed opportunities for SAT. I didn't even recognize 'Lil' Kim' but then again I am unfamiliar with her oeuvre, but I've heard of her because of her Martha Stewart situation. And I don't mean that she fashioned pine cones and discarded bottle caps into decorative placemats, I mean that she did time in the slammer. In 2005, Lil' Kim served a yearlong prison sentence for lying to a jury about her friends' involvement in a shooting four years earlier. Let me just say one last thing, that along with the jabs at Reality TV, the rap and hip hop elements that they injected into SAT have a very short shelf life, and only make SAT seem all the more outdated in retrospect.

For all the musical talent onscreen, the only soundtrack numbers that clicked for me were "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None the Richer, and the dance at the prom sequence set to "The Rockafeller Skank" by Fatboy Slim. The latter was only thrown in at the last minute to pad the running time, which came up short.

Nancy Drew (2007) .... Rachael Leigh Cook was Jane Brighton
Scooby-Doo - The Movie [HD DVD] (2002) .... Freddie Prinze Jr. was Fred
Igby Goes Down (2002) .... Kieran Culkin was Igby
Josie and The Pussycats (2001) .... Rachael Leigh Cook was Josie McCoy
Down to You (2000) .... Freddie Prinze Jr. was Al Connelly
10 Things I Hate About You (1999) .... Gabrielle Union was Chastity
The Cider House Rules (1999) .... Kieran Culkin was Buster
Varsity Blues (1999) .... Paul Walker was Lance Harbor
Hurlyburly (New Line Platinum Series) (1998) .... Anna Paquin was Donna
The Piano (1993) .... Anna Paquin was Flora McGrath
... aka La leçon de piano (France)

SHE MIGHT BE ALL THAT, BUT THIS MOVIE IS NOT!
2009-06-14 - A decent cast can't keep this retread of 'Pretty In Pink' from becoming boring and predictable. I knew what to expect watching this film, but it just does't have anything going for it other than the two likable leads.
The is nothing new here and what is here has been done better many time before.

Weak plot, bad acting
2009-05-17 - This is one of the worst teen movies I've ever seen. The acting is horrible, the storyline is thin, too many plot holes, etc. Lets forget for a second that the story is incredibly cliche and predictable, but why are there so many undeveloped plot lines? What's with the deal between Zack and his dad? Did they really need to have issues considering the fact that none of them make any sense in relation to the main story? Lanie's stereotypical personality of a geeky loner is just thrown in there only to fit into the stereotype, her personal issues are completely unexplored. It's all about the bet and turning a beautiful "ugly-duckling" into a prom queen. Which is another issues, because Lanie is not unattractive at all.

Another problem is that high school is completely misrepresented. Nobody dresses the way Taylor and her friends do, nobody would go crazy over Zach as the majority of the female population does. Plus, the actors are a decade too old to play high school kids.

This is nothing but a collection of pretty faces with minimum to zero acting talent and direction.

Found it here but no where else
2008-05-21 - My wife wanted this movie for a long time and after going to all the local retail stores I finally started looking online and bang, here it was this whole time. Thanx Amazon.com you helped me find my wifes fav. movie. Thank you.

Unbelievable, clichéd, but hard to not enjoy
2008-04-20 - This is the classic turn-a-nerd-into-a-star movie, where a bet between popular people ends up leading to an unpopular person being used. However, in typical fashion, the unpopular person ends up being the bigger person, and eventually teaching one of the cruel, selfish popular people something about life.

The biggest problem with this movie is that Rachael Leigh Cook is the nerd and Freddie Prinze Jr. is the agent for change. I can buy Prinze as the big man on campus, but Cook as the unpopular, awkward, artsy student? Maybe the latter two are believeable, but there is no world in which Cook is the unpopular girl in school while looking like she does. In the High School social structure, Cook's beauty puts her in the upper-echelon of students

As far as the movie, Cook plays Lanie, a beautiful but somewhat reclusive girl into performance art and worldly problems. Somehow, she goes nearly unnoticed by the in-crowd.

The bet is made between Dean (Paul Walker) and class President Zack Tyler (FP Jr.) that, after a breakup with his girlfriend, Zack can turn anyone into prom queen. Lanie is selected because she's SOOO undesirable. And, despite the fact that all it took to "make her cute" was a hair cut, a new dress, some makeup, and the removal of her horn-rimmed glasses, her transformation is completely baffling to every one of the popular kids. Then the big confrontation happens between the ex-girlfriend and Lanie in the battle for Prom Queen.

The only real point to this movie was as a spring-board for several young stars. Aside from those already mentioned, Gabrielle Union, Anna Paquin, Usher, Matthew Lillard and a host of others also make contributions as supporting actors.