Continuing our series of writers defending loathed films is a reappraisal of Amanda Bynes’s gender-swapping 2006 comedyI’m sure you must be wondering why a movie in which there is a scene where Amanda Bynes, playing a girl pretending to be her brother, screws up her face to stridently declare in a cartoonishly male voice, “I am a dude.
I am a hunky dude! I’m a badass hunky dude!” was not lauded for being an example of comic excellence.
Ok, maybe you’re not wondering that but I certainly am.
This is one of the most spectacular moments of hilarity in She’s the Man, the 2006 adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, a stone-cold teen comedy classic that deserves far more recognition than the mediocre reviews gave it.Related: Hear me out: why Speed 2: Cruise Control isn’t a bad movie
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