Synopsis: A young woman is attracted to a man despite her thinking she’s seen him kill someone.
Amanda (Monica Potter) is an art restoration curator who has had terrible luck with men. After finding her current boyfriend in bed with a model, Amanda moves out and ends up living in a loft with four⌠models.
Because they’re models, they get everything for free, including the apartment – “We don’t pay for anything⌠we’re models” – and charge Amanda $500 a month for spending money. One of the building’s residents is a handsome guy named Jim (Freddie Prinze Jr.), who seems perfect.
One night, after Jim asks Amanda out on a date, she believes she witnessed Jim kill a woman from her window. When the police refuse to get involved, Amanda and the models start to investigate independently, even while Amanda fights her attraction to Jim.
I rarely agree with ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, simply because opinions are opinions. For the most part, I find I usually love movies that the critics on RT don’t. Head Over Heels has a 10% rotten rating, one of those rare occurrences I agree with.
Head Over Heels wants to be a Rear Window meets rom-com, but it lacks not only everything that made Rear Window great but also everything that makes a rom-com great.
There is absolutely no suspense because you know dang well that there will be an explanation for what Amanda saw. The movie depends on banal, gross-out humor, which is more juvenile than funny. The four models are incredibly vapid and dumb, which I suppose is meant to be humorous, but it’s just lazy as hell writing.
Prinze Jr. and Potter aren’t very engaging as love interests, but that may be due to the script’s lack of originality and decent dialogue. Frankly, I thought Prinze Jr. was miscast in the role. He’s way too… Freddie Prinze Jr. to pull off Mr. Mysterious with Secrets. Adorable, yes. Intimidating? No.
Head Over Heels barely reaches the level of a mediocre rom-com. Very generic and very unfunny. Skip it.
Watched: 05/29/2022
Notable Song: Head Over Heels by The Go-Gos
