It’s A Boy Girl Thing [Movie]
One of my all time favourite romantic comedy (Oh yeah, I watch these a lot XD)! I decided to re watch it again to freshen up my memories so I could express how I feel about it.
It’s a great movie for sure but I feel it’s so underrated because I don’t hear people going “Have you watched It’s A Boy Girl thing?” Or “I just watched It’s A Boy Girl Thing yesterday,” when I talk to them about movies.
So I’m here to shine some light on it!!!
PLOT: (Wikipedia version) Lifelong enemies awake one morning to discover they have switched bodies and genders, and each sets out to ruin the high-school reputation of the other.
Recount: (My version) Woody Deane and Nell Bedworth has been neighbours ever since they were born. Growing up they didn’t get along as Woody would play football, ride his bikes and annoyed Nell. Meanwhile girly Nell liked to build blocks that spelt “Yale” and “Harvard” and skipped. She would sometimes get back at Woody.
One day, during a school trip to the history museum, they are forced to be partner where they fight, like always, in front of an ancient Aztec god statue, Tezcatlipoca (God of Sorcery).
The next morning both wake up to find they are in the wrong room, the wrong bed, the wrong clothes and, the wrong body.
Freaking out because they don’t know what has happened, they decide to just act as close to normal as possible, which was impossible since either are really them. However they start to go against each other in an effect to ruin each other high-school life and reputation.
After an experience where Woody (in Nell’s body) decides to lose Nell’s cherry but bails at the last minute from Nikki, comes to school with everyone calling her (him) a slut. Nell (in Woody’s body) gets upset by this until she learns the truth and beats up Nikki.
They discover that Nell has Woody’s strength now which he needs, to play at the homecoming game where he could be scouted for college. He teaches her how to play and use her strength. Woody then has to learn about poetry and Shakespeare to help Nell get into Yale through the interview.
They decided to be each other’ s date for homecoming but declares “it’s not a date”. On the day of the game and interview, each tries their best at the other’s event.
Woody interview seemed to be going badly while Nell is struggling in the game. Woody then comes to the game to cheer on Nell to which she does amazing at the end.
Woody gets scouted and tells Nell that he did the best he could. They then get this weird feeling and become surprise when they find they are back in their old body. Breanna (Woody ex-girlfriend that Nell broke up with when she was in his body) comes up to kiss him in front of Nell. She leaves in disbelief.
On the day of the homecoming, Nell decided not to go while Woody and Breanna wins Homecoming King and Queen. They are about to have the first couple dance when, Nell walks in, in her beautiful dress, having decided to go after chatting with her dad. Woody leaves Breanna and declares his love for Nell instead.
They leave and later end up kissing at the large tree in between their houses that was grown when they were born and have been there since their beginning. We then see Nell telling her parent that she was taking a one year sabbatical before going to Yale and leaves with Woody in his car.
You guys have to understand that this isn’t everything and I tried my best not to recap it to the core but yeah XD
One of the reasons why I love this movie is because the hate first (or in this case for the first 18 years) and love later concept was EXPRESSED IN HERE SO MUCH!!! I really love watching the characters starting to fall in love with someone they hate, like there’s just something about that makes me on tingly and go, “I”VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!”
The movie is hilarious. The first time I watched it, I replayed the parts ton of time just to laugh again and again and again. So you see, you just need these components for me to rate it a good romantic comedy.
I feel nostalgic when I watch this because it makes me miss how easy romantic comedies made me laugh back then. Nowadays if feels complicated and force, Don’t you think? Plus the lightness of the movie too, it isn’t heavy with stuff that writers try to put in for us to “learn”. :(
CAST: Kevin Zegers as Woody Deane - F*cken dream boy. Looks at those eyes and dimples plus that hair fits him perfectly <3 KILL ME ALREADY
Samaire Armstrong as Nell Bedworth - Beautiful girl. I haven’t seen her in much stuff either then this and Resurrection. P.S I want them to be together in real life so bad…
Those two are just the mains. There’s a few other characters that you will meet for example Breanna ;D
Still new at this so I’m a little (or a lot) rusty on expressing my thoughts and feelings about things. This review was really just full of recap WHICH REALLY ISN’T WHAT I WANT TO DO :( But please enjoy :)
Do I recommend? Uh yah of course!