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Head Over Heels

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Head Over Heels (2001)

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Reviews Counted:85

Fresh:8

Rotten:77

Average Rating:3.3/10

Consensus: Head Over Heels is being blasted by critics as a huge mess. The plot and jokes are idiotic, while the toilet humor is gratuitous and more gross than funny.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] sexual content, crude humor and language

Runtime: 87 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Feb 2, 2001 Wide

Box Office: $9,892,550

Synopsis: Amanda (Monica Potter) is a nice, regular girl who moves to New York to work as an art restorer, and begins sharing an apartment with four quirky roommates who are all fashion models. She keeps... Amanda (Monica Potter) is a nice, regular girl who moves to New York to work as an art restorer, and begins sharing an apartment with four quirky roommates who are all fashion models. She keeps bumping into Jim Winston (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), the seriously cute boy who lives in the apartment building across the street, who weakens her knees and fumbles her words. Having resolved herself to hopelessly peeping through his window, Amanda's sympathetic and seriously fashionable roommates finally dress her and make her up to crash a party he's throwing. Relaxed and feeling beautiful, Amanda finally speaks to Jim, and he at last discovers her charms and asks her out. Returning to her apartment on cloud nine later that evening, she spies him apparently committing a murder, and calls the police. The cops assume Amanda and the girls are just airhead models and dismiss the claim. Even her roomies are unsure, but find themselves swept up in the drama of Amanda's REAR WINDOW-esque investigation. Filled with good-natured pokes at models and the fashion industry, HEAD OVER HEELS is a romantic comedy powered by an energetic 1980s-style soundtrack and directed by Mark S. Waters (THE HOUSE OF YES). [More]

Starring: Monica Potter, Freddie Prinze, Shalom Harlow, Sarah O'Hare

Starring: Monica Potter, Freddie Prinze, Shalom Harlow, Sarah O'Hare, China Chow, Ivana Milicevic, Tomiko Fraser

Director: Mark Waters

Director: Mark Waters
Producer: Robert Simonds
Screenwriter: Edward Decter, John J. Strauss, Ron Burch, David Kidd
Composer: Randy Edelman, Steve Porcaro
Studio: Universal Pictures

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Reviews for Head Over Heels

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The best jokes are on the models and the men who pursue them, and Shalom Harlow, Ivana Milicevic, Sarah O'Hare, and Tomiko Fraser -- the real models who play Potter's roommates --are very good sports.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
02/27/07
Lisa Alspector
Lisa Alspector
Chicago Reader
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The screenwriters' desperation is palpable at times.

Full Review Source: Film Blather | comment Comment
05/22/03
Eugene Novikov
Eugene Novikov
Film Blather

[It] just gets dumber and dumber.

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
05/20/03
Jim Shelby
Jim Shelby
Palo Alto Weekly

Head Over Heels isn't exactly terrible - it's just completely uninspired.

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
04/19/03
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

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Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
03/29/03
Eric Rosenberg
Eric Rosenberg
Hollywood.com

The girls decide to conduct their own wacky investigation, with consequences that are at best negligibly humorous.

Full Review Source: Film Quips Online | comment Comment
02/08/03
John R. McEwen
John R. McEwen
Film Quips Online

When your script calls for a suave, mysterious leading man and the best you can come up with is the bubble-bright Freddie Prinze, Jr., it's time to do some serious recasting.

Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette | comment Comment
06/09/02
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

Between the ridiculous stereotypes and "stupid model" jokes, the comedy in Head Over Heels stands up. The romance, on the other hand, simmers but never really boils.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
06/05/02
Tim Cogshell
Tim Cogshell
Boxoffice Magazine

Head Over Heels may bear some superficial resemblance to a movie, but don't be fooled -- it's really just a marketing strategy, a loose assemblage of components each pitched to a particular demographic.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
03/19/02
Rick Groen
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
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This is no Oscar nominee, but it's a sweet, funny, refreshingly different movie about models, a woman & the guy she loves, who may or may not be a murderer. Hee!

Full Review Source: Cinerina | comment Comment
10/30/01
Karina Montgomery
Karina Montgomery
Cinerina

When anyone's not delivering the groaners that pass for zingers, someone bumps into something and has a 'hilarious' pratfall.

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
10/11/01
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

A bright and breezy start goes nowhere in this ultimately miserable attempt to mix murder, mirth and romance.

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
06/01/01
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile

Lo más recomendable es que la tomen como una de las últimas opciones o que de plano vayan y renten algún buen video.

Full Review Source: Moviola | comment Comment
05/11/01
Jorge Avila Andrade
Jorge Avila Andrade
Moviola

Rent Rear Window instead.

Full Review Source: Movieline | comment Comment
04/16/01
Karen Moline
Karen Moline
Movieline

I flipped for it.

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04/08/01
Kamal  'The Diva' Larsuel
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
3BlackChicks Review

Gets overly contrived and tiresome, a bad imitation of an old screwball comedy.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
03/05/01
Eric Monder
Eric Monder
Film Journal International

[Teens] deserve decent movies, but instead they get glop like Head Over Heels. There ought to be a law.

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02/16/01
Sara Wildberger
Sara Wildberger
Miami Herald

A shallow dud.

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02/16/01
Mary F. Pols
Mary F. Pols
Contra Costa Times

So synthetic and sticky that I kept picturing its frames printed on strips of fruit roll-ups.

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02/16/01
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Isn't so much a story as it is a bunch of situations that boil down to crude jokes and even cruder sight gags.

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02/16/01
Brian McTavish
Brian McTavish
Kansas City Star
 
 
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