Cream puffs with attitude!

Rating: Null/10 (27 January 2003)

This is a film that will undoubtedly find an enormous audience with the "Dumb and Dumber" set, the "Baywatch" fans, and perhaps a few neurotic females impassioned by delusions of the "surfer dude" mystique. But there are a few moments which are at least partially inspiring in this otherwise obvious fantasy. That is, because it is hard to imagine that anyone could be that superficial or banal. The girls might just as well have been competing with the boys on who could write the best comic books, for all that their maturity was involved, except that, one might suppose, surfing is arguably more "dangerous," and hence more "serious." The dubious message of the film seems to be that whatever the less intelligent males like to do, so can it be done by the girls, whether they prove anything worthwhile about themselves in the bargain or not.
And they don't. They turn out to be as vapid and superficial as their male counterparts. The lead female character is every inch the two-dimensional Barbie doll, finding greater aptitude between her legs than her ears. And her male cohort is equally the Ken doll, strikingly handsome and athletic, who likes his dolls best when he can dress them all up in sleazy outfits. It's an embarrassing film, like something done by Hugh Hefner. Pretending to be a film about women, it's actual appeal is to the less subtle sort of male. It wants its females to be sexual playthings, so that's how they're cast. Oh, they rebel a bit, and put up a good show to be sure, but there is something about a hot young football player that no red-blooded American female can resist, or so it would seem for this movie.