- 7
So what if it lacks any resonance beyond its slick and silly surface? It will certainly appeal to its target audience...
—Ken Fox TV Guide
- 7
...good-natured and silly...
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 7
...a spry update of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
—Carina Chocano Los Angeles Times
- 6
If the squealing 7th grade girls at my screening were any indication, She's the Man has clearly nailed its target for adolescent-swoony frivolity.
—Anne Gilbert filmcritic.com
- 6
While it may not be as sharp as recent angst touchstone Mean Girls or as guilty a pleasure as the similar 1986 flick Just One Of The Guys, it leaves viewers wanting more...
—Robert Newton Christian Science Monitor
- 6
...a fiesty teen comedy...
—Leah Rozen People
- 6
...a cute romantic comedy...
—Allison Benedikt Chicago Tribune
- 5
Tweens might enjoy it on DVD at slumber parties, but few others will be fans...
— E!
- 5
What it does have is teen-queen-turned-drag-king Amanda Bynes, who tackles the lead role of Viola/Sebastian with enough enthusiasm to wring laughs from the retread story.
—Jordan Harper Village Voice
- 5
The target audience of 'tween girls will probably lap up She's the Man, even as their elders wince at the over-the-top acting in this clumsy, predictable, overlong update of Shakespeare's gender-bending Twelfth Night.
—Lou Lumenick New York Post
- 5
...the film speeds through its derivative, convoluted narrative hoping that buoyant slapstick, whiplash pacing, and abundant gender-related jokes will somehow obscure the fact that the film has clunkily crossbred the Bard with Bend it Like Beckham (objectified sexpot cheerleaders included!). Surprisingly enough, it's a strategy that occasionally works.
—Nick Schager Slant Magazine
- 5
...fun and watchable.
—Jessica Letkemann Premiere
- 4
If your girlfriend ends up forcing you to see this movie in the theaters, then the title perfectly defines your relationship.
—Pete Hammond Maxim
- 3
...amounts to little more than softcore porn for the tween set...
—Scott Foundas LA Weekly
- 3
There I sit, suffering total numbness of body and brain, no longer having to wonder what it might be like to be buried alive in gooey marshmallow.
—Peter Travers Rolling Stone
- 3
Only undiscriminating teenage girls, English-lit grad students looking for thesis fodder, and die-hard Mr. Show devotees who want to see David Cross wear a silly beard in the part of Bynes' wacky principal need bother with this one.
—Keith Phipps Onion AV Club
- 3
...Amanda Bynes pastes on sideburns and a shaggy bowl-cut wig and struts around in a prep-school jacket attempting to pass herself off as a boy, but Bynes, with her chipmunk cheeks and goggly eyes, comes off more like some bizarre third sex...
—Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly
- 3
Everything projects as if for the benefit of a nearsighted and dimwitted ticket holder at the back of the room.
—Nathan Lee New York Times
- 0
There are still many months to go, so there is time for even worse films to come out, but those movies will have their work cut out for them if they want to reach the nadir achieved by this piece of absolute crap.
—Pam Grady Reel