17 Best Teen Comedy Movies of 1999 — the Greatest Year for Adolescent Comedies
“She’s All That”
Like most of the films on this list, “She’s All That” boasts a staggeringly impressive cast, with a perfectly balanced combination of already established young actors (Matthew Lillard, Anna Paquin) and talented newcomers (Gabrielle Union, Kieran Culkin, Dulé Hill) supporting the irresistible pairing of leads Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachel Leigh Cook. This is filmmaking as alchemy — it’s difficult to pinpoint what makes “She’s All That” work so much better than any number of other, similar teen rom-coms given that it’s just as silly and just as predictable, but somehow the intersection of these particular actors with this particular script (by R. Lee Fleming Jr. and an uncredited M. Night Shyamalan) and this particular director (Robert Iscove) at this particular time yielded magic. The cast’s infectious good cheer combines with Iscove’s vibrant palette and energetic camera to create a lively ride that never slows down — even if the story stops dead in its tracks for an unmotivated (but thoroughly enjoyable) musical number choreographed by future directors Adam Shankman and Anne Fletcher. (That musical number is part of an insanely elaborate prom, a trope that one will see in several of 1999’s teen flicks.)
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