Rating: 4/5; So fun. Re-watchable.
Release Date: September.17.10 (theatre) December.21.10 (DVD/Blu-Ray)
Synopsis:
After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean cut high school girl (Emma Stone) sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne's in "The Scarlet Letter," which she is currently studying in school – until she decides to use the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.
Thoughts:
If you're looking for a fun movie, look no further! This one's full of quite a bit of fun. The best thing I liked about it are all the charismatic characters. Even the main bitch (oops can't stop saying bitch because of the best friend!) was a likeable character.
Olive is used to being off the radar, but when she lies to her best friend in order to get out of camping with her very birthday suit loving parents, she makes up a guy. Olive pretends to have lost her virginity to this imaginary man and unfortunately a gossip girl overhears and in seconds (practically) it's all over the school. This later leads to everyone thinking she's a slut, so why not just embrace it right? Now there's no way she'll be off the radar.
Little by little Olive finds herself in quite a pickle which is oh so amusing. I just want to point out that I was not a fan of the fact that people manipulate her and how she just goes with it. I also hated how she ended up "breaking up" with her best friend. That was just a stupid reason.
I liked this movie very much. I liked the adorable guy from Gossip Girl, Penn Badgley, even though he was not on screen as much or was very developed as a character. He was such a badass Woodchuck Todd. Loved the parents!!! Loved the bestie, Rhi, played by Aly Michalka. Do I really need to mention how lovable Emma Stone was in this? It should be obvious just by looking at the trailer!
Mood: You should watch this when you want to get or be chipper. Watching with friends would make it more fun!
Trailer:
Of interest:
Charlie Bartlett/I don't know why but Charlie B's demeanor reminded me of the protagonist, Olive.
Easy A: Site. Yes, freeolive.com redirects to that one :/
~~Lisette~~
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I need to see this! Sounds like SUCH fun! :O
more movies with teens and big vocabs ;)
This movie is SO good! :)
I saw the trailer for this and thought it looked clever but was nervous that it wouldn't maintain it's witty momentum long enough to be worth watching.
So, I went into the movie expecting to be somewhat let down...instead, I was stoked to find that it was creative, smart, witty fun that didn't disappoint. It's not some "film classic" but it is WELL worth watching and something I'd gladly watch again. The writing is very clever. The acting is well executed and overall it's just fun.
Thanks for the review.
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