Freshman year is no fairy tale.
In this funny, modern retelling of the classic Snow White fairytale Amanda Bynes is Sydney White, a beautiful college freshman who pledges her late mother's once dignified sorority.
But after discovering that today's sisterhood is not what it used to be, Sydney finds her new home away from home with seven outcasts. With the help of her socially challenged new friends, Sydney will take on the reigning campus queen to attempt to transform the school's misguided social hierarchy.
Special Agent Matti
Sydney White is not going to shatter anyone's perceptions or romance, comedy or university (let alone the classic horror/thriller Snow White) but it's still a funny, romantic, university movie. Especially if you like laughing at dorks: they found an array of inbred geeks the likes of whom you've never before seen. Nerds R Us must've made a fortune in finder's fees.
On the up side, Matt Long is like Freddie Prinze Jr's younger brother, the one who looks more like Dad than Mum (ie he's handsomer than Freddie and not as pretty). He's very preppy but he looks like he wants more than a rampant blonde. Cue the brunette plumber's daughter. Amanda Bynes isn't stretched by her role (no-one in this movie is stretched) but she does the best she can with what she's given. The only one who does more than his job requires him to is Arnie Pantoja as the Dopey dork: he's like a hotel with a permanent Vacancy sign.
You can send the kid to see this film; it's largely harmless.
The comedy, romance, teen movie Sydney White is directed by Joe Nussbaum and stars Amanda Bynes, Matt Long, Sara Paxton.
PG (Mild coarse language, mild sexual references)
108 minutes (1:48 hours)
Film: 31 January 2008
