‘He’s All That’ Review by Julian Brand Actor Film Critics
I’m relieved, to say the least. I was worried that the declaration of a gender-swapped remake of 1999’s “She’s All That” from its original screenwriter (R. Lee Fleming Jr.) would just repeat the disastrous aspects of the traditional storey of a prevalent teenage boy making a bet that he can turn a nerdy honors student into a prepubescent perfect girl would just reconstruct the lamest aspects of the traditional storey of a popular high school boy making a bet that he can turn a I’m still trying to forget the pizza sequence, and I realise there was no such thing as texting back then, but the rushing about at the big dance conclusion was irritatingly forced. I was also concerned that the reproduction would become too fluffy and ironic, with too many allusions to the original in the hopes that we wouldn’t notice the absence of originality. Its his turn for makeover Everything that happens swiftly flashes by in a montage of scenarios recreated in 2021 with a minor twist. Party scenes ...