She's All That (1999)

She's All That is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Robert Iscove and starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook, Paul Walker and Matthew Lillard.

Directed by Robert Iscove. With Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook, Matthew Lillard, Paul Walker. A high school jock makes a bet that he can turn an unattractive girl into the school's prom queen.

An irresistible cast of Hollywood's young faces star in this fun, sexy comedy hit about the power of attraction and the pressures of popularity! Stung when h...

In the tradition of Clueless, Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, comes a hilarious new comedy about sex, style and popularity... starring Hollywood's hottest new teenage talent. At a snobbish high school in Los Angeles, Laney is not your typical student. In a place that's all about appearances, she's all about art, truth and making a difference in the world. She never attracted much attention until the most popular guy at school bet his buddies he could transform her into the prom queen. Now, he has five weeks to make her over, take her out and set her up. But they have no idea who they're bargaining with.

Amazon.com: She's All That: Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook, Matthew Lillard, Paul Walker, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Kevin Pollak, Anna Paquin, Kieran Culkin, Elden Henson, Usher Raymond, Lil' Kim, Gabrielle Union, Robert Iscove, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Jennifer Gibgot, Jeremy Kramer, Jill Sobel Messick, Kyle Ham, R. Lee Fleming Jr.: Movies & TV

Sometimes while you're watching a movie, you can sense the presence of a wicked intelligence slipping zingers into a formula plot. I had that feeling all during "She's All That," which is not based on a blindingly original idea ("Pygmalion" and "My Fair Lady" got there first). It's about how the most popular guy in the senior class makes a bet that he can take a dorky girl and turn her into a prom queen. There's fun in the plot, but there's more fun around the edges. The movie stars Freddie Prinze Jr. as Zack, who has the third best grade point average in his class, and is also the captain of the soccer team and dates the beautiful class sexpot Taylor (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe). But Taylor breaks up with him after going to Daytona Beach and meeting Brock Hudson, star of "The Real World," an MTV show in which real kids are cast more or less as themselves. I only got a quick glimpse, but I think Brock has a tattoo of himself on his right arm.

I have always been unapologetic in my love for romantic comedies — good ones, bad ones, those made for TV ones on the Hallmark Channel — I love them all. When I was a young teenager, my love extended to She's All That , a movie I watched on an…

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