It’s a Boy Girl Thing (2006)
Whenever I see such a “smart” title, I tend to run away, since I already feel it’s gonna be yet another waste of my time they like to call romantic comedies. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that I finally gave in after seeing it’s actually got some nice reviews.
The movie starts pretty predictable with showing the 2 main characters, 2 neighbours and high school rivals: Nell (Samaire Armstrong), a virgin, geek and future to be Yale student, more interested in Shakespeare than anything resembling a social activity, and Woody (Kevin Zegers), the football quarterback, dating the cheerleader, who’s idea of poetry is Eminem or 50 Cent.
Almost everything goes OK for the two, he’s trying to make her life miserable with all kinds of pranks, while she’s keeping away from this unworthy persona. We meet Sharon Osbourne as Woody’s mother, doing what she does best: cussing 3 times in a sentence. Anyway, it’s a refreshing character, especially since she does have her wicked charm. I assume she is behind plugging Ozzy’s tune “Goodbye to Romance” in the soundtrack too, a good choice in the end since it’s a widely used prom song.
And just when you’re nicely set into the plot, as boring as it might look at the beginning, something changes the game.
The 2 teenagers are taken to the museum, where they fight in front of an Incan God statue. And wake up the next day each being the other one. This is when the movie really starts looking good. There’s a lot of “drama” in their life, she’s now in his superb body, with an idiot as girlfriend and total lack of football talent, while he’s “wearing” her body, showing a stupid manly Nell who’s got zero chances to even graduate, lest go to Yale.
After trying to sabotage each others, the 2 come to the conclusion peace is better and try to secure their futures, by training in football, respectively learn about literature.
With all the references to sex, the movie is VERY clean still, so absolutely safe for any teen-age viewers. It’s a cute comedy that delivers more than initially expected.
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