Russians smuggling diamonds into the United States; a fashion consultant murdering a woman in his apartment; four gorgeous supermodels getting sprayed with poop water.
These hypothetical settings sound like possible ideas for different movie story lines, right? If you're looking to see a movie with, strangely, all these potential scenes in one, "Head Over Heels" is the right movie for you.
This is not your typical boy-meets-girl type of movie, though it may appear that way from its trailers. This romantic comedy adds many twists and turns from beginning to end that will keep audiences entertained.
"Head Over Heels" stars Monica Potter of the movies "Con Air" and "Patch Adams," as Amanda Pierce. Pierce plays an art restorer at a prestigious museum who meets Jim Winston, played by Freddie Prinze Jr., after a few chance encounters around her new neighborhood.
Before meeting Winston, Pierce was going to swear off all men after catching her pervious long-term boyfriend in bed with a supermodel. In her attempt to start a new life after that mishap, she begins to fall for Winston.
Not only does Pierce run into Winston at every possible embarrasing moment, but her apartment happens to have a view into Winston's apartment window. Pierce and her roommates spend cozy evenings camped out at the living room window and watch him do shirtless pull-ups.
One night she witnesses - or thinks she witnesses - her dreamboat beating a young woman to death with a baseball bat. Though she saw the attack with her own eyes she continues dating him and is determined to find out if he really is a fashion consultant, as he claims, or if he has some other dark secret.
It's hard to see Albuquerque native Freddie Prinze Jr. playing the role of a violent attacker. In his previous movies he usually was the good guy, the charmer and every 12-year-old girl's future husband. And, though Pierce and her roommates believe they witnessed his horrific deed, I was hardly convinced that he actually murdered the girl throughout the movie. His character is much too sweet to pull off that type of act.
The cast includes appearances by supermodels such former MTV "House of Style" host Shalom Harlowe, Cover Girl model Tomiko Fraser, Ivanna Milicevic and Sarah O'Hare. These catwalk cuties play models in the movie who rent Amanda a room in their cost-free apartment, only to use her rent money for their own spending cash.
The supermodels were overwhelmingly humorous in this movie, which gave "Head Over Heels" its well-deserved comedic recognition. Most of the film's humor came from these tall, size-zero women who bump into things and clumsily fall down in many scenes, not to mention their countless dumb model jokes and self-ridicule. One of the models prefers not to go out in public due to the different weekly cosmetic surgeries she undergoes.
These scene-stealers add an aura of sex appeal throughout the movie, and their comical performance caused the audience to roar with laughter.
I expected to be a little disappointed with this movie, thinking it was a waste of time as a typical romance-comedy movie. I was wrong. It isn't an artistic Oscar-bound movie but, it was entertaining. If you're seeking a movie that's laid back and funny, "Head Over Heels" won't be a disappointment. Your biggest decision would be to go see it at the theater, or wait and rent it for four bucks at the video store.
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