Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him.
While Miss Silverstone guides Cher through the witty costume changes that serve as character development, she's backed up by a solid supporting cast.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
Though this drifts at times as storytelling, it's mainly lightweight but personable fun.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
7 Aug 2007
fresh:
A fresh, disarmingly bright and at times explosively funny comedy well worth a trip to the mall, even if it eventually runs out of gas.
– Brian Lowry,
Variety,
7 Aug 2007
fresh:
The summer's most compelling movie about teenagers.
– John Leland,
Newsweek,
7 Aug 2007
rotten:
There's such a gaping discontinuity between her physical beauty and her vacant, gum-snapping personality that she's like a walking advertisement for everything that's right and wrong with America.