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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
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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)
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PRINZE CHARM
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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
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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.
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