3 stars***
The title of the movie (Easy A) isn’t a great selection as it tells you nothing about the movie unless you go watch it, but you may be pleasantly surprised after watching the trailer to find a movie that’s very well written and brings a regular dose of chuckles to your throat.
What’s it all about?
After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean cut high school girl 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
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Does that logline help at all? It shows that not all loglines are brilliant. The movie isn’t really about how she improves her financial and social standing; it’s more about how her social standing is almost ruined and her financial assets are improved only marginally, temporarily.
Screenplay writer Bert V. Royal is in top form especially when writing the lead actor’s lines and those of her parents. There’s a spin off television series available just in the parent’s characters. The writing reminds you of Diablo Cody’s magnificent ‘Juno’ and exactly meets the style of today’s American late teenagers.
The only area the movie fails big-time is in its premise that if a seventeen year old girl sleeps with one or two boys then she’ll be shed aside as an outcast. That may have happened back in the late 50’s, but in today’s USA world where 50% or more of seventeen year olds have had more than one sexual partner already, then she would just be one of the crowd and wouldn’t stand out at all.
If I’m going to be really picky, lead star Emma Stone (who is excellent in her role) portrays herself as a girl that could hide and not be seen at school. This wouldn’t be the case for such a good looking girl with an attractive figure and at a school with hormones in full swing from the seventeen year old boys (and some of the girls).
How many schools do you know where 99% of the population look like models and have perfect 10 bodies? The failing 1% stand out because the script calls for them to be overweight and/or unattractive. Not in the real world do we find such a school which means it’s about time Hollywood started employing actors who look like real people from real schools. Not every seventeen year old has perfect straight white teeth and with a ten score body.
Full marks to the people who made the titles and credits. That’s unique. Go see.
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