Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

I'm just going to say it. I love Hallmark movies...mostly. I know they're cheesy but I can't help myself. The only thing that truly annoys me is when they end in the characters kissing and we don't even get 30 secs of real closure. How many kissing endings do we have to watch?! It's getting old and ridiculous. But I digress. Let's talk about The Makeover specifically. Bottom line...cute premise, good acting, fun Boston accents. Total crap movie. There's one reason and one reason only for the "total crap movie" label....Julia Stiles' character. (Let's face it, I feel like this is the only character she plays). There's no denying that Julia Stiles is a great actress. She is wonderful, for sure and for certain. BUT this Hannah Higgins character is HORRIBLE. She is completely unlikeable. Arrogant, narcissistic, downtrodden, rude, argumentative. She has no arc, says the most horrible things to a really likeable and adorable man who's trying his hardest, and NEVER apologizes, even though she goes to him multiple times to apologize. She just ends up blaming him and everyone else around her. I couldn't root for her, I didn't even want to watch her. There wasn't a hint of chemistry or romance and at the end when they kissed, I was just left feeling grossed out. I kept thinking, "Run for the hills man"! At first I really liked the change in story (from the classic Eliza Doolittle version) but the problem is...the original Higgins was a much older man and was NOT a romantic interest. Higgins wasn't very likeable in the original but you kind of saw him as a tough father figure. If you're going to make Higgins a romantic character, you'd better tone down the negative character traits or for goodness sake, GIVE HER A CHARACTER ARC!! Everyone loves a good character arc. The male lead was to nice and wonderful for us to ever believe he'd fall for a shrew like Hannah Higgins.

Julia Stiles character was too cold, mean, and uncaring. I didn't enjoy the movie because of her. The writers should have allowed her character to change into someone more likable. I like that the movie was set in Boston. It was very​ authentic. I don't understand why Julia's character had to remain so callous during the entire movie. I don't recall her smiling at all.

The Makeover is itself a remake of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and the musical version of that play, My Fair Lady, but with an interesting twist; the genders of the main characters in the film have been switched. Set in Boston, The Makeover takes much of its initial energy from the contrast between the varied dialects used by the upper and lower classes of that city's population.The film is a fun romantic comedy that is reasonably well acted and photographed. It could have been improved by continuing the musical score through the fades between scenes instead of leaving them silent, but this probably was not considered practical with a made for TV movie.

Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, move over. In the reversal of sex roles, the female losing candidate in a congressional race attempts to make over a beer distributor who she has insulted on the night of her defeat. He needs her help for a major promotion and when the candidate who beat her, dies in a freak accident, she decides to promote him for Congress.It's wonderful how he learns to speak well and knows how to work an audience. It's also wonderful seeing how he takes the high road by refusing to submit damaging evidence that he has against his opponent's wife.Frances Fischer steals the scenes she is in by playing our male hero's common mother, very common that is. She is often hysterical to watch.While they both share the common thread in being defeated, this is also a story of two people with different backgrounds falling in love.A wonderful film. I was so sorry when it ended.