She's All That
Here we
have a modern day "Pygmalian" or "My Fair
Lady", which is, of 
course, what the film "Pretty
Woman" is based on... and from the trailer
we've all
seen a zillion times, when Laney says that she feels like Julia 
Roberts. That has got to be the worst line
in the film.
Anyways,
there's this girl Laney (Rachel Leigh Cook of) who struggles 
through the happiest place on earth - high
school - as a loner. New story?
Don't think
so, but this time loner is an artist. Just what I've been waiting
for, a movie about a high school artist, and
a good movie at that.
So we see the lovely Laney, in black-rimmed
glasses, no make-up, bad clothes,
hair bun,
then add clumsiness, insecurity, the inability to say the right 
thing and you have the cookie-cutter version
of the common high school loner.
Sure, She's
All That is a 2 hour long cliche, but it's not without it's
moments. 
Maybe there are actually guys like Zach
(Freddie Prince Jr. of) who selfishly
bet on the
life of insignificant unpopular kids. Naw, guys like Zach, who
are 
athletic,
popular, great looking, in addition to the holder of the best
GPA, tend to be a
tad too preoccupied to waste their time with
the very thing that could endanger
their high
status. As far as reality is concerned, Laney is a pretty good
rep-
resentation
of the high school loner, and yet, it is entirely too obvious for
us to look
at her and
see a Dawson's Creek kid in thick glasses and bad clothes.
It's a cute, uplifting story of Cinderella
being deviously set up by her
prince, add a
side order of Usher as a student DJ, sprinkle on some biting 
remarks and you have yourself a 90's
teen-flick. This one, is better than most,
regardless of
its lack for originality.
