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SINGAPORE : It seems like it was just yesterday when Fann Wong was spewing Hokkien profanities and scratching her crotch - on the big screen, that is, in last year’s Just Follow Law.
In it, Wong and Gurmit Singh followed the time-honoured movie gimmick of playing sworn enemies whose souls get switched in a freak accident. The switcheroo hall of fame include Like Father, Like Son (1987), Switch (1991), The Hot Chick (2002), Freaky Friday (2003) and even Shrek 3 (2007).
The latest to follow is It’s a Boy Girl Thing. Samaire Armstrong (The OC, Just My Luck) is Nell, an astute, Shakespeare-spouting, geeky high-schoolsenior with her sights set on Yale.
The only imperfection in her Stepford life appears in the perfect form of Woody (Transamerica’s Kevin Zegers), her obnoxious but delish star quarterback neighbour. The pretty boy with the potty mouth just can’t stop getting under her skin - until he literally does, thanks to a Mexican god of sorcery.
So boy wakes up one morning with breasts that belong to his nemesis who, in turn, opens her eyes to - double gasp! - a third leg. Cue screaming, plenty of arm-flailing and a lesson on how to pee while standing up, and, presto, it’s a movie you’ve seen a million times before.
Made for lovestruck teens, go watch the film if you miss those innocent adolescent days when love was nothing if not a magical, out-of-body experience. - TODAY/ra
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