Very straightforward but then a good movie if you're looking for something different, you've found it. Sydney White is pretty much Amanda Bynes' lead role in a teen movie. She plays a very tough tomboyish lead role in a very generic university setting. Looking closely on the movie title, the full tagline being Sydney White and the Seven Dorks, a clear play of words of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
In terms of the movie, it is a straight forward story of a struggling lead character who finds her way to be the strong individual that she is and it plays out well, with its setting, maybe common for a 2007 film considering there's already enough teen films, many of which already take the spotlight and push the genre, as much as it needs to be. Sydney White at least steady's what it has and at least offers something different and new, in an already saturated genre of teen films (at the time).
The modern day parody of Snow White many be too playful but here's where it does wrong, the idea that the title itself is almost tacked on, mainly the use of the word "dorks" in it's fine print in the title. I have no problem with usage of crude language and maybe back then, it was just a way to burn off how some may view someone. I get it. Maybe it's a bit too crude, it just makes this movie age horribly. I think someone got carried away when naming this movie, that they fine printed that on the movie poster. The play of words, maybe worked for Bynes' previous film, She's the Man, but "the Seven Dorks"?. Could have found a more friendly yet less crude way if explaining what it was going for, which is a shame, because the production of the film is great and tells its story well, to the point where you hardly notice it retells the story of Snow White. It does have a good presentation if it's able to put that together.
In terms of the movie, it is a straight forward story of a struggling lead character who finds her way to be the strong individual that she is and it plays out well, with its setting, maybe common for a 2007 film considering there's already enough teen films, many of which already take the spotlight and push the genre, as much as it needs to be. Sydney White at least steady's what it has and at least offers something different and new, in an already saturated genre of teen films (at the time).
The modern day parody of Snow White many be too playful but here's where it does wrong, the idea that the title itself is almost tacked on, mainly the use of the word "dorks" in it's fine print in the title. I have no problem with usage of crude language and maybe back then, it was just a way to burn off how some may view someone. I get it. Maybe it's a bit too crude, it just makes this movie age horribly. I think someone got carried away when naming this movie, that they fine printed that on the movie poster. The play of words, maybe worked for Bynes' previous film, She's the Man, but "the Seven Dorks"?. Could have found a more friendly yet less crude way if explaining what it was going for, which is a shame, because the production of the film is great and tells its story well, to the point where you hardly notice it retells the story of Snow White. It does have a good presentation if it's able to put that together.