Though the most notable legacy of this film is its permanent place in the sleepover movie rotation, I associate it now mostly as the movie where Amanda Bynes experienced gender dysphoria. While trans people are often the most outspoken about it, the phenomenon can affect cisgender people, too. Bynes said in a 2018 interview that when watching the film – an Aughts take on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night where Viola takes her brother’s place on a boy’s soccer team rather than a 1600s royal court – that seeing herself onscreen was “a super strange and out-of-body experience” that put her in a four-to-six-month depression because “I didn’t like how I looked when I was a boy.” Turns out gender problems? Those are universal, baby. Certified as a stinker on release by Rotten Tomatoes users, give the flick a reconsider with a brew or two from Flix. – James Scott
