Brittany has been acting for a while to be honest and has been improving for many years, though in a lot of movie she’s still been seen as one of the many blonde women that happen to populate certain movies. Thankfully she’s never really been the ditzy blonde since she’s been allowed to retain her intelligent and very attitude-driven ways considering that some of her characters have been insanely strong and independent in very positive ways. In all honesty though it would seem that Brittany has kind of had a habit of being in lesser-known movies or being a supporting actress in a lot of movies that feature bigger stars and give her a role that is important but at the same time gets pushed to the side when she’s not needed. Throughout the years she’s had a successful career, but it almost feels as though she needs to be the lead more often.
Here are her five best movies.
5. The Pacifier
Nell Minnow of Common Sense Media pretty much describes what a normal teen or kid-driven movie is like when she goes into what people should expect when watching The Pacifier. It’s basically the story of a Navy SEAL that’s charged with watching over the family of a deceased scientist that’s developed something that the military needs to keep secret. When the man’s wife has to go out of town for a while to secure something her husband left behind the Navy SEAL is tasked with watching her children, a daunting task that makes any covert operation seem like a picnic by comparison. Imagine a guy that’s been on death-defying missions around the world, commanded fully-trained adults and seen just about anything and everything that could be found in a combat zone coming to suburbia and having to take care of a bunch of kids that aren’t his own. The poor guy.
4. The Vicious Kind
Justin Chang of Variety makes a really good point in saying that initially this movie doesn’t seem to be heading in any particular direction. Caleb has problems, that much is pretty obvious from the way he deals with people and talks about women. But when his younger brother’s girlfriend reminds him of his old girlfriends things start to get out of hand pretty quickly since the two of them eventually end up having a mutual attraction that’s based more around a hate/love/hate kind of thing that keeps them apart even though they keep coming together. By the end Caleb is finally starting to come around, but Emma is a little messed up.
3. John Tucker Must Die
It’s a little frustrating when every attempt that’s made to humiliate a person that deserves it is essentially turned around and made into something that’s not so bad but is only kind of odd. John Tucker is resourceful, you can at least give him that much, but he’s also a jerk since going out with three women at the same time isn’t so much of a fantasy, well to young men it is, but is instead a kind of cruel game that carries heavy consequences. When Kate and her new friends finally get him to change it’s counted as a win all the same since they all learn something in the process and life goes on as it always does, but from a much different perspective.
2. Hairspray
Sandy Andulo Chen of Common Sense Media puts it right by stating that this version of Hairspray was actually more toned down than the version starring Ricki Lake and Divine, but it drove home the same points that were in the other movie since it was about accepting people for who they were and not the way that others wanted them to be. In a big way the original seems a lot more likable since it got a little edgier and a lot more down to earth without seeming as though it was pandering to the audience, but this wasn’t a horrible attempt at remaking something that people came to like for their own reasons.
1. Pitch Perfect
A lot of people have expressed a good deal of interest in this movie and I can’t help but say that the ladies’ voices are indeed quite nice. But still, the act of singing someone else’s songs just seems wrong to me somehow. It’s a pleasing story and one that gained a lot of attention, enough that they wanted to make two more sequels, but at the same time one really has to get into this story or they’re going to have the same hangup since the idea of singing someone else’s song in a different way and calling it talent is kind of, well, pointless. I know, if a person can’t do it and they criticize it then it’s not worth listening to the criticism. But if a person can’t come up with their own material what’s that called?
She’s a good actress, that much is evident.
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