‘He’s All That’ Review: Gender-Swapped Rom-Com Remake Rankles Rather Than Reinvents
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variety.comCourtney Howard Before anyone labels “He’s All That” as a rote remake, consider this: It’s a reimagining that — unlike “She’s All That” or the source material that inspired it, George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” — is rooted primarily in the female perspective.
It’s a shame though that director Mark Waters and returning screenwriter R. Lee Fleming Jr. don’t put a savvier spin on the conventional, frequently-lampooned tropes and clichés.
And while it’s possible to make the formulaic and familiar resound fantastically, that concept has evaded these filmmakers here.
Neither bland regurgitation nor innovative retelling, the remake falls somewhere in between, suffering greatly by not establishing a more distinctive identity.
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