The Girl in the Pool

Okay let's just start by saying, I knew this wouldn't be great, but I still love me some under budget movies.

Within the first 15 minutes of this...piece of work? I was already convinced it was going to be bad. Strictly based on the story line that Kevin Pollak (66) is apparently supposed to be Monica Potters father... She's 53, AND she actually looks older than him in most scenes... Him and Freddy look like they could be the same age at best... but this is the father in law? Okay...

Also, when did Freddy become so irrelevant? I guess I hadn't noticed because it's been that long since he's been in anything besides scooby-doo.

Better casting, better writing, this could have been a cheesy thriller/horror , at best. I was even underwhelmed by the ending. Next 👋

It's a thriller suspense type movie with some dark comedy elements. Freddie Prinze Jr. Is the main character that gets in trouble and he tries to wiggle his way out of it.

The plot is very thin, nothing special but the dialogues are good. The writing is actually elevating this to a decent movie. The acting is solid especially from the veteran actors.

The budget isn't the highest, in terms of production it's nothing special, it's a one location movie happening in one fancy house but it's not like a higher budget was necessary for the story.

It's one of those movie where time flies watching it, the pacing is great. I was entertained. Not a movie you will remember 2 weeks later but nothing that will bore you.

Freddie and I are the same age. Why does he look 100? Perhaps he's still dealing with all the crap that happened in his little seaside town.

I can't really understand the plot of this film. But there's Kevin Pollak to add some levity, so that's good, right?

I'm sitting here counting all of the white hairs on Freddie's chinny chin chin and I think, They can't bring the third I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER film soon enough. We need Ray and Julie to get hot and heavy -- ASAP!

Where's Jennifer Love Hewitt when you need her? She could've advised Mr Prinze to throw this script in the bin and wait for I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST WINTER.

A faux, joyous surprise Birthday Party reveals adultery and a dead mistress as an unexpected gift is the story of this Lifetime Movie Like film. The film stars Freddie Prinze Jr (Thomas), Monica Potter (Kristen), Gabrielle Haugh (Hannah), Tyler Lawrence Gray (Alex), Brielle Barbusca (Rose), Kevin Pollack (William). With a great cast like that you expect a really good film, but it goes to show you great actors can't produce with a poor script, and poor direction which is such a shame. Just when a scene in the film wasn't too bad, a bad scene that made you question and think to yourself, what were they thinking?? It's so so at best.

I am just going to start off by saying that my expectations shouldn't have been as high as they were. When I was in high school, Freddie Prinze Jr. Was a top billed celebrity that ruled the teen movies. I often times forget that people that were super famous when I was younger are no longer at the height of their career, and in many cases, hardly even known. So, when I saw this movie with Freddie Prinze Jr, I knew it was most likely lower budget due to me not hearing about, but I still thought it was going to be a worth while independent movie. And what I got was something that could be technically defined as a movie.

I'm not going to go too deep into the plot or anything like that. But, there really isn't anything to dive deep into. Freddie Prinze Jr has to navigate a surprise birthday party while his freshly dead mistress is stuffed into a storage container. From there, he is just manically roaming around the party trying to figure out who killed her, while hoping that no one finds the body. He never asks anyone any hard questions to try and trip them up to discover who killed her. He just keeps asking people what time they got to the party. Somehow they got Kevin Pollak to sign on to this movie, and they use him to periodically pop in to tell Freddie Prinze Jr that he doesn't like him. Freddie Prinze Jr, in turn, is constantly paranoid about who drove Kevin Pollak to the party, even though he gets that answer very early into the movie.

This was not the worst movie I have ever seen. I mean, it has Freddie Prinze Jr, Kevin Pollak and Monica Potter in it, so the acting is well enough to keep you entertained. But the plot itself just seems to ramble on a little. After the third time Freddie Prinze Jr asked someone how Kevin Pollak got to the party, I started spacing out. The ending was abrupt but ok. They tried to make it meaningful.

I'm not saying to not watch this movie. I am just saying that you really have to set those expectations lower, especially if you grew up in the "She's All That" era. This would have probably been a better play than movie.