She's the Man

4.00
    She's the Man
    2006

    Synopsis

    Viola Hastings is in a real jam. Complications threaten her scheme to pose as her twin brother, Sebastian, and take his place at a new boarding school. She falls in love with her handsome roommate, Duke, who loves beautiful Olivia, who has fallen for Sebastian! As if that were not enough, Viola's twin returns from London ahead of schedule but has no idea that his sister has already replaced him on campus.

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    Cast

    • Amanda BynesViola Hastings
    • Channing TatumDuke Orsino
    • Laura RamseyOlivia Lennox
    • Vinnie JonesCoach Dinklage
    • David CrossHoratio Gold
    • Julie HagertyDaphne Hastings
    • Robert HoffmanJustin Drayton
    • Alexandra BreckenridgeMonique Valentine
    • Jonathan SadowskiPaul Antonio
    • Amanda CrewKia

    Recommendations

    • 75

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      Most of the laughs are due to Bynes, a vibrant young actress with excellent comedic chops.
    • 70

      Los Angeles Times

      So good-natured, and its cast seems to enjoy itself so thoroughly, that the total annihilation of disbelief it requires winds up feeling like a reasonable enough request.
    • 50

      Variety

      As insistent as its heroine to get its point across, She's the Man gathers up enough energy and likeable goodwill that it almost skirts past some extremely strained passages in which Bynes plays out being a boy.
    • 50

      Village Voice

      Doesn't have an unpredictable moment in it, borrowing heavily from just about every sports movie or teen comedy ever and, oh yeah, "Twelfth Night."
    • 50

      L.A. Weekly

      She’s the Man amounts to little more than softcore porn for the tween set, with aesthetics ripped from the pages of the Abercrombie & Fitch catalog and virtually every scene revolving around Viola/Sebastian’s crafty escape from some impromptu disrobing.
    • 50

      Entertainment Weekly

      As an actress, Bynes is wholesome to a fault. She impersonates a teenage boy yet never gives him one good dirty thought.
    • 50

      Washington Post

      Another gate-crasher at the let's-do-a-mediocre-update-of-Shakespeare party.
    • 30

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Fails to exploit the myriad comedic possibilities, settling instead for broad, unconvincing slapstick aimed at 12-year-olds and gags Shakespeare would have rejected as ancient.

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