She's the Man Critic Reviews

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Los Angeles Times | Carina ChocanoAdd Critic to Favorites

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.Read the full review

USA Today | Claudia PuigAdd Critic to Favorites

This is a perfectly pleasant, entertaining and often witty romp with engaging performances.Read the full review

Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites

Another gate-crasher at the let's-do-a-mediocre-update-of-Shakespeare party.Read the full review

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

Neither smart enough nor funny enough to have cross-over appeal to any other demographic.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Keith PhippsAdd Critic to Favorites

Bynes appears in practically every scene, and the film seems to have been designed as a showcase for her comedic skills, which she apparently left behind in the trailer.Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk HoneycuttAdd Critic to Favorites

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.Read the full review

The New York Times | Nathan LeeAdd Critic to Favorites

Everything projects as if for the benefit of a nearsighted and dimwitted ticket holder at the back of the room. To his credit, Mr. Fickman has mastered one device unique to the cinema, making repeated use of the corny training montage.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

As an actress, Bynes is wholesome to a fault. She impersonates a teenage boy yet never gives him one good dirty thought.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

There I sit, suffering total numbness of body and brain, no longer having to wonder what it might be like to be buried alive in gooey marshmallow.Read the full review

Variety | Robert KoehlerAdd Critic to Favorites

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.Read the full review

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