*Glasses used to make the character "different"
I remember finding this movie predictable and silly the first time I saw it, around the time it first went to rental. It's a Cinderella tale, outcast girl gets made over and popular because the jock guy placed a bet with his friends. Then he falls for her, she finds out get upset but they all still live happily ever after.
There are things I don't understand in this movie. Such as Usher's role, is he just a dj on the school announcements? if so why does he never go to class? In my high school my principle made the announcements. Is Usher the principle? How does everyone one know the same choreography to dance at the prom? Why does the dancing looks like it comes from an Elvis Presley movie? when I dance like that people call me a nerd. Is Elvis dancing cool in Beverly Hills? So many questions!
The movie begins with Rachel Lee Cook's Character named Laney Bozz. (Or Lady Boggs, I think her name really Laney but at times it sounds like "Lady") painting and making a collage in her basement. She strolls into school with her painting apron on. Wet paint is uncomfortable, on your apron it sticks to you body makes it hard to walk in, usually you take it off and hang it up. I know this because I went to art school. She is wearing glasses and her "hair" is pulled back. Her wigs in this movie are not convincing enough to me to be perceived as real hair. To quote the movie "MAJOR WIG-AGE"
Her pants shoes, portfolio are majorly smeared in brightly colored paint. Quite cartoonish if you ask me, well mostly everything about this movie is quite cartoonish. The movie makers want you to know SOOOOO badly she's an artistic outcast in a rich kid school. They practically hit you over the head with it.
In art class two rich gothy looking girls talk to her about her art. "in Spain we were talking" yada yada, "By the Way it may be a good idea to kill yourself" even other outcasts are mean to her.
Freddy Prince Jr.'s character is introduced as him walking around in a varsity jacket, being Freddy Prince Jr. His brunette Barbie bimbo girlfriend named Taylor breaks up with him because she met a MTV Real world star over spring break. Of course he's a little upset and talked about it with his friends. He says to them Taylor is an illusion, just clothes makeup and attitude. Any girl can fake that illusion. So his friends create a bet where they pick a girl, dress her up, make her popular and piss off the ex-girlfriend.
He finds her after school working and like always in these movies she is wearing an embarrassing bad uniform. She is suspicious, when he talks to her. Her friend who just so conveniently hanging out at her job invites Freddy to see her art performance that night.
She wears her glasses during the performance. After the show Freddy asks her "Do you always wear those glasses?" She replies that she had contacts but is uncomfortable putting stuff into her eye balls.
CONTACTS! it was discussed normally it is not. Then he says:
As if she is suppose to go "Awww" and remove her eye wear and go off into the sunset with him.
She makes fun of him for saying that.
Their next date he convinces her to go to the beach. His friends find them there and his one friend says "She almost looks normal" as she takes off her overalls to reveal her swimsuit. I guess she would look completely normal if she removed her glasses with the overalls.
Somehow they got invited to a house party, she is uncomfortable on going. She makes an excuse that she has to clean her house. Freddy shows up to her door with the school's soccer team and cleaning supplies. So she has no excuse not to go. He even brings his sister (who is played by Anna Paquin btw) to do her hair and makeup and he gave her a tiny (really tiny) red dress to wear too.
Laney comes down the stairs looking gorgeous of course, sans glasses. All those paint splattered clothes, glasses and bad wig was hiding her beauty. I do remember being able to see her eyes with the glasses, oh well she put her contacts in maybe just this once she will try them again. Freddy did say her eyes were beautiful without them.
At the party silly stuff happened; Matthew Lillard dances badly and Laney gets revenge on that gothy girl from art class. Then Taylor (Freddy's ex) poured her dink onto Laney.
Laney run away crying and Freddy finds her. She is sad, says she shouldn't of came to the party and wants to go home and be herself again. Freddy takes her home.
You think after a night of being dolled up like somebody else and having it end badly you want to just be you again. Well Laney is in her art clothes and apron again, but not wearing her glasses.
She does not put her glasses again for the rest of the movie. not even once. I understand she has contacts it was mentioned, "I have them but never wear them" statement implies the ones she has are probably old. So did she get new ones? Is she wearing expired contacts? why? I mean if you hate putting things into your eyeballs, (which she also said) why take the extra effort ? especially after a bad night like that party.
Oh right;
because Freddy said your eyes are beautiful
So the bet is revealed to her by Freddy's friend (who is also the Fast and the Furious guy, I kept wanting an epic chase scene in this movie with him but never happens) tells Lanely and also asks her out to the prom.
Prom night she hanging out in the basement telling her dad she is not going. We know she will change her mind and go to the prom and WOW everyone by looking like everyone else now. Maybe Freddy with show up at her door with a prom dress for her to wear or something. She goes with the Fast and the Furious guy ( good point of the movie to add a high speed chase scene, tanks, aliens, Godzilla, Anything? please movie director person make this more interesting) Where did she get the dress from? how did she know how to do her hair? Before Freddy's sister did her hair and makeup. When Freddy's sister was tweezing Laney's already non- existing eyebrows it was discussed that Laney did not know how to do makeup, hair or the like. Does the removal of glasses and the insertion of contacts, also magically make you a beauty expert?
At prom her friend, Freddy's sister and Freddy ; learn that the Fast and the Furious guy is a jerk and want to bring her to a hotel room for unno
Freddy saves prom night
She never wears glasses again and they both go to college after graduation
They live happily ever after
the end
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