If you accept that SHE'S A MAN the film can be a lot of fun

Rating: 7/10 (17 April 2006)

The basic plot is she pretends to be her brother, while he's away in England, so that she can get on the boys soccer team to prove she's just as good at soccer as any boy.
The film is a decent adaption of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Shakepeare is pretty hard to mess up, as long as you stick relatively close to the original script which the film does.
The film does require some suspension of belief but no more so then most films. For instance, she's living in the boys dorms, with a roommate, in a building with communal showers and somehow no one even suspects that she's a girl. But, once you just accept the fact that she can somehow pass as a guy the film ends up being a lot of fun if taken for what it claims to be, a feel good romantic comedy/sports movie.