Movie Review by: Karen Tan Lay Cheng
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Directed by Robert Iscove,
'Boys and Girls' is a fantastic comedy-romance is about two
totally opposite college students Ryan (Freddie Prinze Jr.)
and Jennifer (Claire Forlani) who meet when Jennifer is told
by her roommate Amy (Amanda Detmer) to dump Ryan for her.
Jennifer is a fun loving
free-spirited individual who loves living life to the max
while Ryan is an uptight person who always needs to follow a
plan for life. Jennifer and Ryan become good friends and they
talk and participate in activities regularly together. This
movie is a bit predictable but nonetheless, fun to watch.
Beautiful Claire Forlani does a convincing portrayal of the
fun and slightly hyper Jennifer. However, I feel that Freddie
Prinze Jr. does a rather frigid job of playing Ryan. He was
much better in 'She's All That'.
So, the story moves on to how
Jennifer and Ryan get closer together yet further apart. Do
they end up together or will Jennifer leave the country
without ever letting Ryan know her true feelings? If I told
you more about it, I'll be spoiling it for you, so if this
sounds interesting enough, go and watch the movie!
'Boys and Girls' is especially
recommended for teenagers and college students - they would
definitely relate to it the best! And it's nice to finally get
a comedy-romance about college students rather than about high
school kids all the time.
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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. Now with the help of their roommates
- the wacky and ever hopeful Hunter and the flirtatious Amy -
they're about to find out what men really want, what women
definitely need and what happens to friends when going for it
goes too far.
