She's All That

School hunk takes a bet that he can transform ugly duckling into prom queen, and then they fall in love.

Why not choose a plain girl for the role? But of course that's not the tradition. After all Audrey Hepburn played Eliza Doolittle in an earlier version.

In She's All That the ugly one is played by Rachael Leigh Cook who we can see immediately will scrub up very well indeed. She wears frumpy clothes and God Forbid is an artist. So she must be a definite loser.

Yet again all of those girls out there who aren't size 10 (or at high school, size 8) and who enjoy reading or the arts are losers. It's tough out there boys and girls, and films like She's All That don't help too much.

The lead male is played by Freddie Prinze Jr, and he's engaging enough as an actor but most notably, for me anyway, the frump's Dad is played by Kevin Pollack (A Few Good Men) who true to form steals every scene he's in.

And he's a loser too, apparently, because he's only a swimming pool cleaner. We shouldn't treat each other this way.

Watch for Anna Paquin (The Piano) in a cameo as the make up expert.