She's All That

In this tired, painfully obvious stab at modern high school mores filtered through the spotty lens of Pygmalion, senior BMOC Zack Siler (Prinze Jr.) wagers his best friend that he can turn tortured-artist type Laney Boggs (Cook) into the next prom queen. Although She's All That may have its heart in the right place, Iscove and writer R. Lee Fleming Jr. do precious little to update the story. If anything, Cook's too cute to be chosen for this rogue's scheme, and not nearly enough the closeted artiste. The film treats Prinze Jr. with equal diffidence, shading Zach with just enough hues of gray so that he can ride roughshod over the film's final 30 minutes. Equally clichéd when it comes to either of the sexes, She's All That runs the gamut from confused to confusing, with plot schematics tangled up in third-act jumbles that creep up out of nowhere. Shoddily constructed out of bits and pieces of previous genre triumphs, She's All That is as dull and droning as the fluorescent lighting in your old study hall.