She's definitely not a man, but a good actor

Rating: 9/10 (22 July 2006)

I've seen a dozen movies like this stretching back to the b/w era, so I was pleasantly surprised. This movie was funny, well acted, and directed very well. Viola is a tom-boy soccer addict who has a twin brother musician named Sebastian who takes off to London for a few weeks to try and be found, while Viola covers for him with their divorced parents. When Viola's soccer team is cut at her school and the boy's team, including her now ex-boyfriend Justin, won't let her play, she takes her brother's place at his school and joins the boy's soccer team  the arch rival to her school's boy's soccer team, to show them all she can play. She has to avoid all the guy stuff that would reveal her gender while falling in love with Duke, and then her brother comes back to help complicate things. All the usually suspects and situations are there, but the fast pace and fresh interactions in the movie keep it from dying a painful death. It's not meant to be believable, it's meant to be good clean fun  and it is.