All I Wanna Do

A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright © 2001 Filmcritic.com

Dead Poets Society it ain't.

This lighthearted comedy features the Teenage Girl Class of 1998 in a silly prep school that is about to do the unthinkable: admit boys. Amidst the bulimia and the hair dye pranks, there's not much learnin' to be done so why not hatch a plan to get the boys banned for life? All this culminates in an obviously re-edited (the film has lost 20-some minutes of running time and has earned a new, meaningless title) strike with the gals taking over the school.

If.... it ain't either.

Kirsten Dunst is giddy, as usual, but Gaby Hoffmann is freakishly overgrown and scary. Pity the casting director who thought she was so cute as a pre-teen and must slap herself silly now that's she's an Amazon behemoth. Yikes!

Aka Strike! and The Hairy Bird(!)

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Rating

2.5 out of 5 Stars

Cast and Crew

  • Director: Sarah Kernochan
  • Producer: Ira Deutchman, Peter Newman
  • Screenwriter: Sarah Kernochan
  • Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Gaby Hoffmann, Lynn Redgrave, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tom Guiry, Vincent Kartheiser, Monica Keena, Matthew Lawrence, Heather Matarazzo
  • MPAA Rating: PG-13