She is All That Movie Review

Shes All That is a movie about typical teenagers. A high school jock, Zack Siler, makes a bet that he can turn an unattractive nerdy girl, Laney Boggs, into the school's prom queen in 6 weeks. Laney’s character changes throughout the film. The use of stereotypes shows the change in her personality and character. When she is first introduced in the film, she wears glasses and a horrible combination of colors. She as well wears glasses, which portrays her to be a geek that does not fit in with the other perfect looking characters. It can also be deduced that her use of different colors being worn at once has connections of her trying to express herself, which is a stereotypical view of teenagers. As she begins to change in the film and open up more as a character, due to Zacks sudden interest in her, her costume changes too. She begins to wear dresses, skirts and cute tops instead of her usual paint covered overalls. This transformation resembles her desire to be more feminine and take care of her looks like the other female characters. Also, she doesn’t wear her glasses anymore, which connotes her to be more accepted as she physically looks alike to the other characters in the film. Zack is immediately illustrated as a typical jock. They show him wearing a letterman jacket when he is first introduced. Throughout the film, Zack typically seems to wear simple clothing such as t-shirts and jeans. This echoes the style of many teenage boys, so it is a stereotypical style of costume that is usually seen in teen romantic comedies.

Laney Boggs dealt with many issues in this movie. Her mother died when she was very young, which turned her into an outsider who used art to cope with her emotions. She tended to block people out her life, as ...

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...sister completely made her over and taught her how to do it herself. Zack wasn’t the nice sensitive guy, his sister had to give him tips on how to get close to Laney. Also Laney helped him become more decent when it came to other people and not to be so shallow.

I really loved this movie. It is from the 90s and I love all the music they used. I also like how it sends a message saying not all teenage girls are ditsy and only concerned with their looks. Some happen to have a mind of their own and don’t always conform to the norm. But my favorite thing about this movie was the cast! I was shocked to see some of the people in it, for example, Usher, Paul Walker, Dule Hall, Freddie Prinze Jr., Kevin Pollak, Lil Kim and Gabrielle Union. It’s really exciting seeing them work together and seeing how young they all look. Overall, I would recommend this great movie to anyone.