My Take: A real mess with quite possibly one of the dumbest screenplays written in recent memory. Total poppycock!
HEAD OVER HEELS boasts, quite possibly, one of the dumbest screenplays ever written. There are a lot of badly-written screenplays out there, but this is probably one of the worst in recent memory. It starts out with a good girl liking a good guy. Then the good girl thinks he may not actually be "Mr. Perfect" after all. Then she suspects him to have committed murder and everything goes downhill. Had it been a script for a thriller, it might have been good for brainless fun, but as a romantic comedy, with a pointless gags and bathroom humor, it's just lethal. A total train-wreck from the moment that Great Dane leaped on Monica Potter.
Potter plays Amanda, your typical nice girl who restores Renaissance paintings for a living. She then moves to a flat where she shares a room with four partying models which she gets along with finely. But then there's the good-looking Jim Winston (Freddie Prinze Jr.), who may be the perfect guy. But when she sees him seemingly striking a woman and disposing hr body, she's about to change her mind. And the story only gets sillier and dumber (even by comedy standards) as it goes. As if that wasn't bad enough, director Mark Waters throws in some gross out bathroom humor with horribly unwatchable results. It even rips off bits from REAR WINDOW and the knife-throwing from the silly HER ALIBI in the process.
Sure, it adds up and it might have kept you guessing, but this film is just borderline unwatchable. The comedy isn't funny, the script is dumb and there's not a good actor in sight. What might have been a light disposable affair, HEAD OVER HEELS is an insulting and ridiculous mess, and probably the worst of its kind in a long time as well.
Rating: 0 out of 5.
HEAD OVER HEELS boasts, quite possibly, one of the dumbest screenplays ever written. There are a lot of badly-written screenplays out there, but this is probably one of the worst in recent memory. It starts out with a good girl liking a good guy. Then the good girl thinks he may not actually be "Mr. Perfect" after all. Then she suspects him to have committed murder and everything goes downhill. Had it been a script for a thriller, it might have been good for brainless fun, but as a romantic comedy, with a pointless gags and bathroom humor, it's just lethal. A total train-wreck from the moment that Great Dane leaped on Monica Potter.
Potter plays Amanda, your typical nice girl who restores Renaissance paintings for a living. She then moves to a flat where she shares a room with four partying models which she gets along with finely. But then there's the good-looking Jim Winston (Freddie Prinze Jr.), who may be the perfect guy. But when she sees him seemingly striking a woman and disposing hr body, she's about to change her mind. And the story only gets sillier and dumber (even by comedy standards) as it goes. As if that wasn't bad enough, director Mark Waters throws in some gross out bathroom humor with horribly unwatchable results. It even rips off bits from REAR WINDOW and the knife-throwing from the silly HER ALIBI in the process.
Sure, it adds up and it might have kept you guessing, but this film is just borderline unwatchable. The comedy isn't funny, the script is dumb and there's not a good actor in sight. What might have been a light disposable affair, HEAD OVER HEELS is an insulting and ridiculous mess, and probably the worst of its kind in a long time as well.
Rating: 0 out of 5.