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I’l-'briKm iday, February 2, 2001 Mef iimbe : rease nent show 'f at 41; ■ UK REVIEW Head Over Heels Starring Freddie Prinze, Jr. lit h 0 t ant * Monica Potter Directed by Mark Waters 1 We are in the month of love aror - and Hollywood is cranking out ures - ■ th< mushy stuff in full-force. lden t$..Dne such “date flick” is Head Unive»er Heels, another romantic •versifyfajmedy set in a trendy city with •ent typlawless, fatless starlets be ll Roaning their tortured lives, any sk:Watching the heavenly bodies in iiate iritis movie might make a super- aid. model feel fat. |ht inaei Amanda Pierce (Potter) is D t h e 4 yoar typical Midwestern, small- Oqq ’ town girl in the Big Apple, es ai*i* archin £ for her own P iece V' ^ tht- pie. Amanda is an art re storer who gets a great deal on ar| absolutely fabulous apart- are no: .Ant on the Upper East Side, lil the lH e one drawback, is that she lures ii shares it with four painfully thin, :ow tragically hip supermodels, licity.cc;® Luckily for Amanda, the uber- s. Rmen are kind enough to give Amanda some much-needed life lessons on makeup, dress, arid man-baiting. ■ Once she has the tricks of -the trade, she can direct her at- ' frotni tentions to hottie neighbor Jim Winston (Prinze). Most of P a ) ^’flinze’s screen time is spent would pumping iron in front of a :heem window overlooking Amanda’s vemen apartment. It’s the beautiful rtainse. people to the rescue, as the roi lantic comedy slips into ut f the wild and wacky murder- p* mystery genre 1 I no Kooio i the 0 tionCe The basic story of Head Over Weels resembles Hitchcock’s Rear Window. Waters tries to give it an urban-hip, modern transformation. Instead, he de livers a glossy, over-stylized spin on an old classic, featuring su- -—"permodel cliches, Midwestern jwm stereotypes, and actors with more gel in their hair than act ing ability. This film only ap peals to Britney-wannabe audi ences. (Grade: D) "ovidedfy — Brooke Corso leAssocL ng the i JrTL\^w\jfM. MIjI 1 I THE BATTALION J PRINZE CHARM Page 3 Head over Heels star makes repeat performance By Rachel Landry The Battalion I just saw another advertisement for the new Freddie Prinze Jr. movie, Head Over Heels, and to tell the truth, 1 wonder how movie production companies can continue to release movies with the same plot. I am being so hard on Freddie Prinze Jr. and his new movie because I know how this movie is going to turn out. All of Prinze’s movies have been the same, with the exception of Wing Comman der, which I did not see because I do not like movies involving mental institutions, aircraft or people dying on boats. But if there was any possible way Wing Comman der cou\d follow in the plot line of the rest of Prinze’s movies, 1 bet it did. For those of you who do not read the teen magazine Tiger Beat and have never seen or heard about a Prinze movie, I am going to give you the synopsis of every movie he has ever been in, and you don’t even have to pay me. So, there is this guy, played by Prinze. And there is this girl, played by some ac tress who has been in about one major movie, and who Vanity Fair magazine thinks will be the Next Big Thing (and of course, it is almost always wrong). So ei ther he likes her, or she likes.him. But something is between them, most likely a misunderstanding. Then there is a close up of him making puppy-dog eyes, and them making out. After seeing this movie, many young teenage girls ran home, called their boyfriends and professed their true love. So, why do movie companies keep hir ing Prinze? A major factor is that he looks good in khaki pants. There isn’t much more of an explanation than that. Either you have iff i?: ll A.) ! PHOTO COURTESY UNIVERSAL PICTURES a bottom worthy of khaki pants, or you don’t. Prinze falls in the first category. U Summer. I don’t think that it was a coincidence that his breakout movie was aimed at audiences who were fight ing their daily breakouts with Neutrogena Daily Foaming Face Wash. For this reason alone, it is hard for me to blame him for his acting abili ty since his first big role was with the pair of boobs on a stick known as Jennifer Love Hewitt, who happens to be a spokeswoman for Neutrogena. I do feel sorry for Prinze, even though 1 should not. The man is in his 20s, and I bet he has more money in his wallet than I could ever earn. I feel for him, because in the cruel world of Hollywood, where youth /£ Horse Whisperer, seen only by housewives and horse lovers. And Bedford can act. What will happen to someone like Prinze in several years when his youth finally betrays him? Besides plastic surgery, there is not much he can do. I can see the Freddie Prinze Jr. movies in 50 years. They will be kind of like Grumpy Old Men, except Prinze won’t be grumpy. He’ll just be the smiley old man who tries to give puppy- dog eyes. Between takes, he’ll proba bly take out his dentures and have them polished, so he can continue giving his sig nature smile. But it’s okay. He’s no Walter Matthau, so he wouldn’t be expected to do anything that actually required range. RUBEN DELUNA/The Battalion jdent Aro Dwlor .rectof Jitor litor Jitor editor ;Jito r ito f duccr .dioP^ meste 15 irt 1 y* .««5 jnivert' 1 ' 1 3l. ando^ .2678 Consulting KPMG Consulting invites ail Texas A&M University Computer Science and MIS juniors to an Information Session & Reception Wednesday, February 7th 5:30 pm 504 Rudder Dress: Business Casual Food and Drinks provided