She's The Man 2006

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: The humor is pretty much what you'd expect. Read more

Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune: As you can imagine, sticking a girl dressed up as a boy into a dorm with hunky boys lusting for girls is the stuff of comic mix-ups, and in She's the Man, we have plenty. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: A comedy that lacks both the verbal sophistication of its source and the sexual sophistication of its target audience. Read more

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: She's the Man has a certain charm and is sure to appeal to tweens, at least the female variety. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Mere words cannot convey how awful Bynes is at playing a girl playing a boy. Read more

Jordan Harper, Village Voice: Amanda Bynes...tackles the lead role of Viola/Sebastian with enough enthusiasm to wring laughs from the retread story. Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: Its star's interpretation of teenage manhood for some reason involves talking like an effeminate Alabaman. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: She's the Man, a screwball comedy that made me wish I were 13 again, because this is precisely the kind of movie I would have gone nuts for in the ninth grade. Read more

Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: There's a sweetness about it that wins you over. Read more

Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: She's the Man retains much of Twelfth Night's discombobulation and many of its names but is aimed, unlike the original, at the cherry-lip-gloss demographic. Read more

Michael Booth, Denver Post: She's the Man, modeled on that gender-bending Shakespeare masterpiece, is harmless fun for the 12-year-olds who should make up the core audience. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Bynes, with her chipmunk cheeks and goggly eyes, comes off more like some bizarre third sex -- Davy Jones after an infusion of estrogen. Read more

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: It's not Shakespeare. It isn't even The O.C. But She's the Man still has enough energy to make it slightly better than the usual teen comedy throwaway. Read more

Nancy Churnin, Dallas Morning News: You don't have to know Twelfth Night to have fun at She's the Man. But brushing up on your Shakespeare can be good for a few inside chuckles. Read more

Scott Foundas, 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. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: The machinery of Shakespeare's cross-dressing lark is so airtight that it works, even with the flip fidelity paid to the original by the writers of She's the Man. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: She's the Man is a bit of a mess. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: A cross-dressing comedy that's all dressing can only, well, leave you cross. Read more

Nathan Lee, New York Times: The ensuing complications -- romantic, social, sporty -- are modeled on Twelfth Night, although the tone of the movie (hysterical peppiness) and style of acting (emphatic grotesquerie) are more suited to campy Off Broadway musicals. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: If music be the food of [teen] love, play on. Just so long as Amanda Bynes is the player. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: As was proven with 10 Things I Hate about You, it is possible to re-imagine the Bard in a modern high school setting, but She's the Man doesn't do it well. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I didn't for one second believe the plot of She's the Man,but I did believe for the entire movie that Amanda Bynes was lovable. Read more

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Confusion runs amok. But it's all upbeat, oh-so-cute confusion. Read more

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Susan Walker, Toronto Star: More often than not it's the slapstick elements, predictably occasioned by gender confusion, that get the laughs. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: This is a perfectly pleasant, entertaining and often witty romp with engaging performances. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: 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. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Once again, Hollywood makes the mistaken assumption that cribbing Shakespearean plots and dumping the poetry will somehow download the Bard's brilliance. Read more