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
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