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Head Over Heels

2001, Movie, PG-13, 90 mins

Head Over Heels: Review

HEAD OVER HEELS
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Made in 1999, this failed "romantic-comedy-thriller" cooled its heels for more than a year before stumbling into theaters. If you try to imagine a breezy Cary Grant movie in which Grant makes penis and fart jokes, you'll have some idea just how wretched it is. Amanda Pierce (Monica Potter, styled to look like Julia Roberts) is a lovelorn art restorer for NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art. After leaving her unfaithful boyfriend, she moves in with four struggling models, played by real-life mannequins Shalom Harlow, Tomiko Fraser, Ivana Milicevic and Sarah O'Hare (basically the Spice Girls but without the singing). Well-meaning, slightly obtuse but with hearts as big as their shoe closets (and sort of fun, in a lovable-patsy way), the models help Amanda meet her dream guy, purported fashion entrepreneur Jim Winston (Freddie Prinze Jr., who has the comic timing of an undertaker). They later help her play detective when she thinks she sees Jim murder someone. Never reaching the minimum requirements of either "witty" or "wacky," this is one of those movies that ostensibly takes place in the real world (as opposed to that of a surreal, WAYNE'S WORLD-type farce) but is so ineptly plotted it's practically senseless. Nobody even looks up as people fire guns on busy city streets and fight wildly backstage at a fashion show. The FBI colludes with the New York Post to publish a fake front-page story. And what art restorer would paint the face of her latest crush onto an irreplaceable Titian? The movie gets its few non-potty laughs from comically exaggerating people's perceptions of models. This leads to the film's only funny bits, such as Amanda jumping up and trying to grab a piece of paper the very tall Jade (Harlow) is holding up high. Potter, to her credit, has a nice, sassy delivery, as if even she can't believe the painfully ridiculous things she has to say. leave a comment --Frank Lovece
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