It's a Boy Girl Thing | 
| Director: Nick Hurran
Actor: It's A Boy Girl Thing
Studio: ANCHOR BAY
Category: DVD
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 27351
Format: Color, Dvd, Ntsc, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DV15908
UPC: 013131590890
EAN: 0013131590890
ASIN: B0016QNSCY
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: June 17, 2008
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Product Description
High school quarterback Woody Deanne (Kevin Zegers of FELICITY: AN AMERICAN GIRL ADVENTURE) is a sexist jock who lives for hip-hop. His next-door neighbor and sworn enemy Nell Bedworth (Samaire Armstrong of THE O.C. and ENTOURAGE) is a smart and sensitive virgin who loves Shakespeare. But one morning they mysteriously wake up in the strangest place of all: Each other s bodies! Even if they can now survive their switched lives of girls showers boys locker rooms college interviews Homecoming football and destroying each other s reputations will they find that falling in love may be the ultimate out-of-body experience? Sharon Osbourne co-stars in this wild gender-bender comedy featuring a hot soundtrack of hits by Eminem Black Eyed Peas Elton John James Blunt Ozzy Osbourne Girls Aloud Mystikal and more!Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/BUDDY FILMS Rating: UNRATED UPC: 013131590890 Manufacturer No: DV15908
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A body-swapping comedy, It's a Boy Girl Thing takes a look at what happens when contentious next door neighbors have to literally live in each other's body for a while. Nell (Samaire Armstrong, Entourage, Dirty Sexy Money) is a studious geek. Woody (Kevin Zegers, Transamerica) is the high school football hero. Though they've known each other their entire lives, the two are happiest pretending the other doesn't exist. Psychoanalysis might conclude that it's because each has aspects that they are trying to subliminate in themselves, but in this farce, which executive-produced by Elton John, the plot is much less deep. It's a Boy Girl Thing has more in common with Rob Schneider's crude body-switch-'em-up The Hot Chick than, say, Tom Hanks' Big (Where his character didn't change sexes, but did grow from a little boy to a grown man overnight). At its best, the film offers a few laughs and some sight gags. At its worst, the characters utter lines such as, "I'm a loser, I'm trouble and I'm stupid. It's basic genetics." Written by Geoff Deane, who fared much better with the clever Kinky Boots, It's a Boy Girl Thing capitalizes on the strength of the lead actors. While Armstrong and Zegers look like they could be old enough to be paying off their student loans, they have the mannerisms and nuances of teenagers down pat. Once they swap bodies and have to work together to get their lives back, they also exhibit wonderful chemistry. So nice, in fact, that for a nanosecond, you almost wish they would never get their old lives back. --Jae-Ha Kim
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 Tolerable teen fluff April 19, 2009
wiredweird (Earth, or somewhere nearby)
Suppose the mind of Freaky Friday were mysteriously transported to the body of just about any teen movie ever - you'd get something that looked a lot like this. Instead of mother and daughter this time, it's a teenaged boy and girl whocan barely stand each other. He's the uberjock, with the big homecoming game coming up, she's the Yale-bound, bookish type.
The result is pretty predictable: bathroom and locker room jokes, some body-part humor but less than you might think, and a happy ending all around. Oh, and the Mean Girls character ends up publicly embareassed (spelling is intentional), which just goes towards making the ending happy. Best watched if you're doing something else at the same time.
-- wiredweird
 When the girl has a hard time... December 10, 2008
Pristine Angie at www.d332.com (NYC)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Gender swap comedies are a motif that Hollywood revisits every decade or so. There was Switch (1991), The Hot Chick (2002), and now It's a Boy Girl Thing. Coming out of the 80s, when women wore square shoulder corporate suits and fought the glass ceiling, there was an aggression that Ellen Barkin captured. Coming out of the 90s, when gender confusion as hip, the Hot Chick followed suit. These days however, when (young) girls flash gang signs on myspace, Muay Thai kickbox each other on the head on youtube, and curse like truck drivers, Samaire Armstrong , playing her neighbor Woody trapped within, has a much harder time showcasing the rift between the sexes.
I mean c'mon: Girls today act more like boys than boys girls.
With all her shrugs, posturing, manly strut, spitting, and cursing bravado, it all but sounds like a typical girl I see in the malls.
Kevin Zegers, on the other hand, lives up to the part by pulling out all the stops on the suddenly sensitive, suddenly well-dressed, suddenly effeminate (or stereotypically gay) football jock.
One of the bonuses the story of this movie contains is the concept of "access." In many gender swapping movies, the humor and plot is based on what one sex discovers about the other half once he or she inhabits the other's body. In It's A Boy Girl Thing, that access takes a sharp turn midway into the movie, and suddenly each character discovers what is being said about him/her from the house next door. Woody (a high school football star with loud parents), inhabiting Nell's body finds out what Nell herself, taking after her mother's bourgeois snobbishness, had said about him. Nell (a preppy girl headed for Yale), inhabiting Woody, learns that the neighboring fathers, once friends, had been pushed apart by her own snobbish mom. With this revelation, Nell (with Woody inside) suddenly realizes where his place is in society.
Once the gender swap plot fades into a (social) class swap story, THEN Samaire Armstrong's acting comes alive.
I find movies about swapping roles always have a latent social critique. Of course the fact that Elton John is the executive producer helps me read into the notion of how one's environment and natural disposition will factor strongly in determining destiny. It's a visual pun on "coming out."
Well the movie is sweet and the romance is snuggle up nice. It wasn't laugh out loud funny, but then again, that may have more to do with the age of this reviewer than the movie itself.
Predictable...But Thoroughly Enjoyable!! September 6, 2008
R. Woodward (Australia)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this movie and although the storyline has been done before it was a well acted movie! I laughed in places and just sat back and really loved it! I bought it for me 11 year old daughter but I must say I liked it just as much as she did. She laughed and laughed at the closing sequence in the credits. Would recommend it to all!
I'm way too old to feel this damn young September 5, 2008
Farscape fan (AZ United States)
It's interesting that a film can bring back those hopes and painful memories of the past so easily. I've been out of high school for a very long time but found I really enjoyed this film. It didn't go over the top and it gave me some good laughs. The soundtrack was exceptional and brought alot of energy and mood to the film. Kevin Zegers and Samaire Armstrong were impressive in their respective roles. It's a romantic comedy with some familiar gags, but Maury Chaykin and Sharon Osborne as Woody's parents give it a different flavor. It's one I'd watch more than once so that should say it has some depth of character. Is it a four star movie or is it just that Kevin Zegers is so spell-binding??? What's the difference....it's a four star spell-binding performance and wouldn't be the same without him, however it was well done all the way around.
It was kind of fun September 1, 2008
Music Lover in Omaha (Omaha, Ne)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Okay, I did enjoy this movie for the most part. The actors did a good job with a pretty predictable plot that really had only one possible resolution. All of the characters were stereotypes of one sort or another but of course, the two leads get over their personal prejudices and move to the inevitable ending. sigh. If there was one thing that could have made this better (at least from my perspective) is that they could have done away with so much of the humor being dependant upon sexual organs. The film was cute, funny and touching. It seemed to be pretty well acted and made you feel good in the end. Oh, and Nell's dad: There was a man of integrity. What a guy! Worth seeing...once
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