Even though Amanda Bynes holds the entire two hours of She's the Man\ together because of her humorous antics and quick comments, the ridiculous storyline makes it garbage.
She plays a girl who pretends to be her brother to prove to everyone that she can play soccer on a boy's team. In a long line of films of people trying to be the opposite sex, such as ""Big Momma's House,"" ""White Chicks"" and ""Mrs. Doubtfire,"" she definitely ranks in the top, mostly because she is very entertaining to watch. It is too bad that this film suffers from a ridiculous script and unbelievably awkward scenes that leave an uneasy feeling.
The film is loosely based on Shakespeare's ""Twelfth Night."" Although some of the character and location names are the same, Shakespeare certainly would not be satisfied with how lame it is.
""She's the Man"" has a lot in common with horror movies where the killer is chasing their victim and walking incredibly slowly, or tripping or having a direct shot at stabbing their victim and missing completely. Certain scenes use the ability to cut to a new scene to forget awkwardness that would never be forgotten in real life. Viola (Amanda Bynes) leaves her school to go to a new (boys) school because at her private high school, the girl's soccer team is cut. In a particularly awkward scene resulting from this situation, in the film Viola/Sebastian (her ""brother"") is in the dorm room with her roommate and he asks her why girls will not talk to him, and she exclaims, ""Because you are hot!"" He gives her a weird look and keeps talking, when in reality he would freak out and probably request a new roommate. Frustrating scenes like this are what ruins the movie, and truly make it feel uncomfortable. Although Amanda Bynes is able to look like a boy, she still sounds like a girl, which is another reason this film is so unconvincing.
In many films there is a scene where a character makes a comment that is the title of the film. In some films it is necessary and meaningful as in ""Good Night, and Good Luck."" In other films, such as ""How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,"" they ""achieve the title"" very early and very annoyingly. In ""She's the Man"" it does not take long until one of the male characters in the scene makes a comment about how ""she's the man!"" This is frustrating and annoying and hopefully screenwriters will stop doing this, because it happens in almost every movie and is completely unnecessary.
This film is probably aimed for 12- to 15-year-olds and people in this age range might enjoy it. For anyone else, there are much better movies to spend money on than this one.
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