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She's the Man (2006)
If you accept that SHE'S A MAN the film can be a lot of fun
The basic plot is she pretends to be her brother, while he's away in England, so that she can get on the boys soccer team to prove she's just as good at soccer as any boy.
The film is a decent adaption of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Shakepeare is pretty hard to mess up, as long as you stick relatively close to the original script which the film does.
The film does require some suspension of belief but no more so then most films. For instance, she's living in the boys dorms, with a roommate, in a building with communal showers and somehow no one even suspects that she's a girl. But, once you just accept the fact that she can somehow pass as a guy the film ends up being a lot of fun if taken for what it claims to be, a feel good romantic comedy/sports movie.
Church Ball (2006)
Church Ball comes up short
I wanted to like this film, I really did. It's got some good actors but ultimately it falls flat. It tries too hard to be funny in some places (the daughters over zealous cooking attempts), over reaches in others (the scene where they clean up someone's yard, so he agrees to join the team) and has some scenes that, while mildly interesting, are really just filler (all the work scene's). And I didn't find the "villians" intimidating, or worth hating, so much as I found them to be childishly annoying.
I've met people like those in the film while playing church ball. And I will say the referee's are spot on, Still, in the end, I really didn't care all that much about the characters, or their quest for church ball glory. Maybe because they were all so one dimensional, which I might not have minded so much if the film were funnier or seemed to flow a little more smoothly overall.
Kurt Hale, and Halestorm entertainment, has made some good films, but this is not one of them.