Viola is an awesome soccer player on her school's girl's team. To call it too perfect, her boyfriend Justin, is the captain of the school's boy's team. I guess some could say it was a match made in soccer heaven, that was until the school cut the girl's team. So Viola comes up with the idea that the girls could join the boy's team, well the boy's coach shut that down. Then Viola turns to her boyfriend in her hour of need and asks him and he says no also, well that was good enough for Viola to dump him and move on.
Viola returns home to find her brother Sebastian packing a bag and about to head out his window. At this point she's wondering what the heck is going on, Sebastian explains he and his band got the opportunity to take a little tour in London so he's hitting the road. Luckily, their parents are divorced so he told the other he was staying at the others house because he also is supposed to be starting at a new boarding school. This is where Viola comes up with the in-genesis idea to become her brother and play soccer at his school to show just how good she is.
She arrives at the new school kind of freaking out at the fact that she's actually doing this and feels like everyone knows she's not really Sebastian. Apparently she's freaking out over nothing because everyone just assumes she's/he's small for her/his age. It's time for soccer practice and lucky her, her roommate Duke is the team captain. See Viola doesn't quite make varsity so she enlists Duke to help her and she'll help him try and get with the girl he's crushing on, Olivia.
As Duke and Viola, I mean Sebastian, get closer as teammates and roommates, Viola starts developing feelings for Duke and Olivia starts developing feelings for Sebastian, I mean Viola I guess. So, she starts seeing Duke to make Sebastian jealous. All the while Sebastian's real girlfriend Monique comes to visit him and causes more drama as Viola aka Sebastian breaks up with her. Then, Duke see's Olivia kiss Sebastian, but this is the real Sebastian and it just becomes a big mess. I hope I haven't lost you.
So, Sebastian, Viola, finally makes varsity and the opening game is against her old school who cut her team and her ex Justin. Meanwhile, Duke is now mad at Sebastian for kissing Olivia, so the game's becoming a mess. So, how does the game end? Who ends up with who? Does anyone find out that Viola is impersonating her brother? You're just going to have to watch to find out. There's a lot going on in this movie with comedy and romance.
I know Amanda Bynes kind of fell off the bandwagon for awhile, but I don't hold it against her acting career. She's so funny in this movie trying to balance being her brother and herself. You'll have a lot of laughs and a lot of awe moments with this one. I love watching this one with my friends as we have all seen it. It couldn't be the fact that Channing Tatum is the leading man. I can not get enough of this film and would recommend it to anyone who asks. This is why it's my number one pick for this romantic comedy list. That's going to wrap it up for this list of films, stay tuned for a new list. Have a great day, and as always, enjoy a great movie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UiPki2uxM8
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http://www.reelingreviews.com/shestheman.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She's_the_Man
This movie reminds me of another one from my younger days where the girl wants to be a journalist (I think), but the guy at her school is biased toward guys. So, her parents are gone, there is a brother involved, etc. It's called Just One of the Guys -- circa 1985 (I had to Google it!)
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