One joke movie quickly loses impetus.

Rating: 3/10 (25 January 2010)

When the girl soccer team is cut from the school rota, Viola decides to disguise herself as her brother Sebastian and play for the guys soccer team.
Perhaps it's the inevitability of it all, or that this is just another in a long line of one joke gender swap comedies, that makes She's The Man stagnantly dull. Basically a modern sporty update of Bill Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, the premise plays out exactly as you would expect. Locker room awkwardness is followed by romantic interference, that in turn is followed by a sugar coated finale as everyone is a winner baby, that's the truth {thank you Hot Chocolate for the last line}. Amanda Bynes is sprightly in the dual role of Viola & Sebastian; moving from a sort of junior Jennifer Aniston to a junior Jake Gyllenhaal with no little skill, and the soccer scene's are competently constructed. But really this is flat execution of an often told formula and frankly I'm baffled by its above average rating on this particular site. 3/10