Nonetheless, he invited me back to meet his friends, who were staring at him in disbelief thinking he’d actually succeeded in picking up this Brazilian girl. Shocked, he laughed and said, “I totally thought you were Brazilian.” He wouldn’t be the first to make the assumption. After listening to his tired pick up line in American-accented Portuguese, I cut him off and bluntly asked him in English where he was from. His White European friends dared him to go and talk to that Black Brazilian girl sitting on the beach, who was really a Black American girl in disguise. Just two kids from Jersey traveling abroad who happened to bump into each other by stereotypical mistake.
I gave it a 5 out of 10- nothing bad, but also nothing great. But I suspect that they are probably the major audience that would find this movie appealing or interesting. There was a group of what seemed to be 14 year old kids sitting up in the back of the movie theater I attended, and they laughed and oohed and ahhhed a little bit at some lame-ish jokes. Just kind of shallow, and very derivative. But there was also the obligatory black guy side kick, bitchy bimbo girl rivals, an unsympathetic 'Desperate Housewives' type mom, and cool slob parents, played by Sharon Osbourne (yaaay!) and Maury Chaykin (also yaay, but for different reasons).
But the young woman actor who had to play a guy trapped in a girl's body managed really well. Although the dude did seem really, really gay, even when he was not being possessed by a girl, but supposedly his own male self. Not to say there wasn't some appeal here. There is even a cinemagraphic grammar about that whole thing by now. Weener jokes, 'Hey, I got tits!' jokes, stumbling in high heels, 'delicate flower' young ladies belching at the formal dinner table, etc., etc. All those movies explored the notion of girls and boys living in each other's bodies.
Or the semi-good 'The Hot Chick', with the creepy Rob Schneider and the ever-so-hot babe, Anna Farris. Or one-hit-wonder Joyce Hyser's 'Just One of the Guys', where she becomes a guy (I forget why). Consider Debbie Reynolds and Toni Curtis in 'Goodbye Charlie' (1964), or the Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin masterpiece, 'All of Me', where he acts out the movie while being possessed by a woman. Thing is, it's been done before, and done much better.
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