It’s a very solid, very funny teen comedy.

| May 6, 2024

Fails to make the most of its source material by trimming Shakespeare's plot and squeezing it into a vacuous high school comedy.

| Jul 6, 2008

A comedy that lacks both the verbal sophistication of its source and the sexual sophistication of its target audience.

| Dec 18, 2006

Bynes tackles her part with gusto, while Tatum underplays his to striking effect.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 11, 2006

The high school hijinks may entertain the young, but those more familiar with the Bard will recognise this as a wasted opportunity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 7, 2006

A minor but decent-spirited entertainment, enlivened by a couple of the adult supporting players.

| Apr 7, 2006

Its kooky hybrid of slapstick gender jokes already had whiskers on 'em in Shakespeare's day.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 1, 2006

There I sit, suffering total numbness of body and brain, no longer having to wonder what it might be like to be buried alive in gooey marshmallow.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 21, 2006

Mere words cannot convey how awful Bynes is at playing a girl playing a boy.

Full Review | Mar 20, 2006

She's the Man has a certain charm and is sure to appeal to tweens, at least the female variety.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 17, 2006

More often than not it's the slapstick elements, predictably occasioned by gender confusion, that get the laughs.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 17, 2006

No one under 12 need rush out to see She's the Man.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 17, 2006

A cross-dressing comedy that's all dressing can only, well, leave you cross.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 17, 2006

She's the Man retains much of Twelfth Night's discombobulation and many of its names but is aimed, unlike the original, at the cherry-lip-gloss demographic.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 17, 2006

As in Bynes' 2003 film What a Girl Wants, She's the Man wraps her up in a tidy romantic-comedy package with a generically non-threatening piece of Teen Beat eye candy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 17, 2006

It's not Shakespeare. It isn't even The O.C. But She's the Man still has enough energy to make it slightly better than the usual teen comedy throwaway.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 17, 2006

She's the Man, modeled on that gender-bending Shakespeare masterpiece, is harmless fun for the 12-year-olds who should make up the core audience.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 17, 2006

You don't have to know Twelfth Night to have fun at She's the Man. But brushing up on your Shakespeare can be good for a few inside chuckles.

| Original Score: B | Mar 17, 2006

As you can imagine, sticking a girl dressed up as a boy into a dorm with hunky boys lusting for girls is the stuff of comic mix-ups, and in She's the Man, we have plenty.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 17, 2006

I didn't for one second believe the plot of She's the Man,but I did believe for the entire movie that Amanda Bynes was lovable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 17, 2006