That’s weird, I could’ve sworn I’d reviewed this and A Guy Thing here already. I hope Textpattern isn’t dumping entries on me

I love this movie, it just cracks me up every time. In some sense it’s a lot like the American Pie and Road Trip type movies, but I think it’s a little less mainstream and a little more kooky than that. I think a lot of people would dismiss it too quickly for being dumber and cheaper than it is (or, than I find it, I guess), especially when Piper Perabo opens her mouth.

Umm, there’s really not a lot to say about it, it’s such a personal fave of mine, I just love it lol.

I did review this one before afterall – Textpattern’s database needed repairing

22nd July 2004:

I have absolutely no idea why I love this movie so much, but I do love this movie so much. No trailer could do the whole thing justice and I’d recommend to anyone who watches the movie to sit through the whole thing, no matter how much you start out wanting to burn the negative, it might win you over.

Slap Her … reminds me of movies like Bring It On and Drop Dead Gorgeous (lots of bitch slapping, lots of highschool- and culture- stereotypes, but honestly not as bad as the title implies – in fact, if you’re expecting a really cheesy French mickey-take, then you’ll either be pleasantly surprised or disappointed) – but the style and story to me end up being located firmly in between the original modern teen movie, Clueless, and Disney-Pixar’s jealous buddy movie, Toy Story. There’s even a musical montage sequence à la “Strange Things” in Toy Story where our heroine is slowly replaced by the French invader as the Coolest Girl In School.

When I rate movies these days I have a bunch of scales in which they can gain or lose a star (sorry, right now I haven’t got my star ratings up yet but soon I will). There’s the sheer technical stuff – the quality of acting, photography, music, script, etc ; then there’s how it personally affects me – a movie like Tarzan, say, or The Strawberry Statement, where my selfish side switches on, the movie has been made just for me, and it practically becomes my movie … this section of my ratings system can sometimes override all other categories, such is my love for some movies ; then there’s a very minor section which is based on the importance of a movie, historically, culturally, sometimes even currently, ie, post-9/11 there’s a lot of movies that resonate even more now than decades earlier when they were made ; and the final section is usually the one I allow to bring up the star rating I’ve given a movie so far if its rating is looking too low … the watchability factor. I use this factor too when I’m doing my top movies lists – if it comes down to two movies where I can’t place either on top of the other, I ask myself, which would I sooner watch? There are some really bad movies that I could nevertheless easily watch more than Citizen Kane or something … this is a major factor.

[note to self: republish the above paragraph in a place where it applies to all reviews]

Slap Her … sort of fails on all the categories, getting maybe a half star in the technical department. But on the watchability front, put it this way: it was a rental disc, but it’s now highly placed on my buy list … I could just watch it over and over. It gets at least 3 extra stars here. For some bizarre reason, I just love it.

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