Synopsis: Some college girls plan an sports competition with handicapped teenagers as a means to win the Sorority of the Year prize. When one of the girls falls in love with the boy she is supposed to coach, who is physically and mentally handicapped, she faces general opposition.
Appraisal: This film is not totally bad, but I simply did not see anything daring or innovative or unique in it, as it has been praised to be. It adopts cartoonish caricature as its basic style, and never lets go. It's watchable -- the script is coherent enough and there is a sort of liveliness to the whole proceeding -- but the fun wears out quickly and an overall feeling of pointlessness takes over. I couldn't help thinking that the behaviors and values its sarcasm is aimed at doesn't exist anymore in the USA. I could be wrong about that of course -- especially since I have never lived in the USA -- but my main objection is of a different nature. The last line in the film gives away the basic artificiality of the film's construction: the whole love plotline is merely a very implausible device used to make fun of sororities and mothers and hypocrisy in general. In short, it's another variation of something we have seen before, and a lackluster one at that.
Rating: 35
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