Overview
Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school board is becoming concerned, including her favorite teacher and the distracted guidance counselor. With the support of her hilariously idiosyncratic parents and a little help from a long-time crush, Olive attempts to take on her notorious new identity and crush the rumor mill once and for all.
I had a lot of problems with this movie. I get that since the classic teen movies of the early 80’s kids in movies have dialog and confidence that no other teen in the history of the world has had. This movie goes a step further – we’re supposed to believe that a hot chick is playing a high school nerd that can’t get a date yet she has that same ridiculous confidence. Sixteen Candles worked because it was Molly Ringwald – someone that was completely believable as the quirky / nerdy teen – and not some A List Hollywood Actress.
Speaking of 80’s movies, it wasn’t bad enough that this heavily-cliched movie was stealing from so many movies that came before it. Towards the end it openly embraced it as if it was some kind of homage. It was just really disappointing to see so many fine actors taking part in this tripe (Patricia Clarkson and Thomas Haden Church deserve so much better). I guess this can be classified as a coming-of-age movie – there have been so many better ones recently. (see here).
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Easy A
Movie title: Easy A
Movie description: Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school board is becoming concerned, including her favorite teacher and the distracted guidance counselor. With the support of her hilariously idiosyncratic parents and a little help from a long-time crush, Olive attempts to take on her notorious new identity and crush the rumor mill once and for all.
Date published: 2021-02-12
Director(s): Will Gluck
Actor(s): Emma Stone, Cam Gigandet, Amanda Bynes, Penn Badgley, Dan Byrd, Thomas Haden Church, Patricia Clarkson, Lisa Kudrow, Malcolm McDowell, Aly Michalka, Stanley Tucci, Fred Armisen, Juliette Goglia, Jake Sandvig, Morgan Rusler, Nikki Tyler-Flynn, Braeden Lemasters, Mahaley Manning, Jameson Moss, Blake Hood, Bryce Clyde Jenkins, Neil Soni, Stacey Travis, Bonnie Burroughs, Eddie Applegate, Norma Michaels, Yolanda Snowball, Andrew Fleming, Johanna Braddy, David Gore, Lalaine, D'Anthony Palms, Ryan Parker, Rawson Marshall Thurber, Chris De Lorenzo, Jillian Johnston, Nancy Karr, Clay Black, Brad Etheridge, Veerta Motiani, Michael Strauss, Lance Kerfuffle, Drew Koles, Max Crumm, Jeremiah Hu, Jessica Jann, Danni Katz, Jason Kropik, Yoshi Sudarso, Micah Van Hove, Yoshi Sudarso, Julianne Celeste, Bobby C. King, Kristin Quick
Genre: Comedy
My Review
I had a lot of problems with this movie. I get that since the classic teen movies of the early 80’s kids in movies have dialog and confidence that no other teen in the history of the world has had. This movie goes a step further – we’re supposed to believe that a hot chick is playing a high school nerd that can’t get a date yet she has that same ridiculous confidence. Sixteen Candles worked because it was Molly Ringwald – someone that was completely believable as the quirky / nerdy teen – and not some A List Hollywood Actress.
Speaking of 80’s movies, it wasn’t bad enough that this heavily-cliched movie was stealing from so many movies that came before it. Towards the end it openly embraced it as if it was some kind of homage. It was just really disappointing to see so many fine actors taking part in this tripe (Patricia Clarkson and Thomas Haden Church deserve so much better). I guess this can be classified as a coming-of-age movie – there have been so many better ones recently. (see here).
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My Review - 5/10
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