Review
Managing to present a cute and wholesome picture of lovestruck high-schoolers with neither musical numbers nor the need for a sick bucket, You're So Cupid is something of a novelty.
Essentially The Parent Trap with mobile phones, it sees unidentical twins Emma (Danielle Cuchran) and Lily (Caitlin EJ Meyer) playing matchmaker not only to their schoolmates, but also to their estranged parents (Charmed star Brian Krause and Lauren Holly, looking suspiciously trout-pouty in her post-Dumb & Dumber days).
In between times, the story goes a bit Bride Wars (though less gratingly so) when their sisterly love is derailed by Connor, the new hunk in town (played by Jeremy Sumpter, a one-time Peter Pan).
Both girls are smitten with him and, thanks to a magical twist, he with both of them.
In a fantastical but agreeable twist, we discover why the Valentines are so good at organising the love lives of others. Even at the expense of their own.
Normally played loud and giddy, this kind of fluff usually aggravates like a comedy ringtone.
But by virtue of an engaging cast and script that doesn't think it's too cool for school, there's no such irritation here.
Anyone hungry for a romantic slice of pie in the sky is in for a satifying little treat.
Elliott Noble
11:32AM, Jan 29, 2010
Fraternal twin sisters Emma and Lilly are as different as night and day. Emma, the beautiful blonde tomboy, would rather be riding a horse than anything else in the world. While Lilly, her shy redheaded twin, loves to be left alone to curl up with a good book. Inseparable since the day they were born, Emma and Lilly have an insatiable desire to play matchmaker, even though they've never fallen in love themselves. Emma and Lilly find out their matchmaking skills are not just a gift from heaven, but rather because their father is actually Cupid (yes the guy who shoots bows and arrows).