I just checked, people: Boys and Girls was the 8th (!) movie I saw that starred Freddie Prinze. In almost every other occasion, the movies were horrible (I gave Summer Catch, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and She's All That a 1/10, I Know What You Did Last Summer and Head Over Heals a 2/10 and Scooby Doo a 3/10). So why do I keep watching them? Well, sometimes, something good pops up.
The first time that happened was Down To You (then again, Julia Stiles is excellent), and this movie is the second. Hardly a hidden gem, but good enough to watch and enjoy on a quiet night.
Prinze is Ryan, who in early years, meets Jennifer (Forlani) on a plane (both characters are about 12 years old). Years later they meet again (and somehow recognize each other) and they keep on meeting while going to college. What do they do? Well, they talk. And talk... Mostly it's about their relationships. Which are not working. Well, you kinda know how this is going to end, now don't ya?
There's a lot standing in the way of this film. It's terribly cliche (oh my, it even got a going-to-the-airport-no-driver-stop-the-car!scene), not really funny, it takes itself waaaaay to serious and... erm... it's a Freddie Prinze movie. But somehow it works. Well, for me anyway...
Forlani is good (I can see her moving on to bigger things) and Biggs is downright hilarious as the goofy room-mate. The pace is right, the music's right. Never a dull moment really.
6/10
Boys and Girls
2000
Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Boys and Girls
2000
Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Plot summary
Ryan and Jennifer are opposites who definitely do not attract. At least that's what they always believed. When they met as twelve-year-olds, they disliked one another. When they met again as teenagers, they loathed each other. But when they meet in college, the uptight Ryan and the free-spirited Jennifer find that their differences bind them together and a rare friendship develops.
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Oops... I actually liked it...
.. sure.. it's worth three minutes
..the only reason to watch begins at the thirty-six minute mark and lasts approximately three minutes. Otherwise the entire remainder of this movie is mindless banter between the two of them...one spewing more absurd dialogue than the other. Without a doubt she is easy on the eyes, but when she opens her mouth that's when the trouble starts. Someday it might be nice to see her in a film where she is not acting and talking like a complete airhead. Box Office Mojo indicates this film unbelievably made twenty-five million dollars worldwide, be that the case, it just shows how much trouble the culture is in. Watch the three minutes (like watching a short music video).. and do yourself a big favor and take a pass on all the rest.
Crazy low rating, what were they thinking?
Those who follow my reviews know that I like to revisit films 10 or 20 years after release, looking for titles that were way better than the reviews showed, but somehow got lost in time.
This is one of my faves.
Prinze, as professional writers have said, was a lot like Kevin Costner, he seemed to be everywhere, and then suddenly he was nowhere.
While the general consensus is that his later film work -- mainly weak thrillers -- was forgettable, some of his romantic roles will live on as long there are still two sexes on this planet. Which could be a very long time.
This romcom at first seems simplistic but in fact it is not.
Of the estimated 2 million films Hollywood has done trying to figure out how the sexes work (kidding) this is one of the best. And Claire Forlani is great, a pity this role did not bring her more work in A-list films.
Also fun to watch a younger Jason Biggs ham it up, without being at all self-conscious.
Classic rom-com.