I'm going to say this is the best of the cross dressing comedies.

Rating: 8/10 (11 March 2019)

Does anyone expect an Elizabethan play converted into a teen comedy to be any good?
Well it is, actually.
I'm no scholar but this was a pretty charming little story of deceit and going under cover which doesn't lay on the sexual politics too thick and instead focuses on being an easy going (but not simplistic) tale of people pursuing the wrong people romantically and then all the right people by the end.
I loved seeing Amanda Bynes, I have tons of nostalgia for the Amanda Show and she actually plays a convincing boy. Seriously, she is so cute in this but I could believe she was male (albeit one that hadn't had puberty yet). And she handles the comic timing and the more poignant scenes better than the Amanda I thought I knew had any right to.
It's a delightful story about being your true self no matter what other people tell you and does it without being heavy handed. I don't know if that's what Old Bill meant to do but this is worth a look.