Rating of
2/4
Bland
Nerva - wrote on 12/30/10
Bland but decent. Predictable but at the same time unbelievable and not in a good way. For starters and this is not a spoiler, we are supposed to believe that a modern day high school in California becomes obsessed because one 17 year old girl had sex. And nothing more shocking than that, not even with another student or anyone any of the students would have known. In my highschool days it would be more shocking and unusual that a 17 year old girl hasn't had sex yet. And though I am from a fairly populated region judging by the teen pregnancy rate along with statistics on STDs and age groups this is far from uncommon. I couldn't connect with the beginning of the movie due to this, it's so unrealistic I honestly thought the writers had to be joking with us to expect us to believe that 90% of typical highschool teenagers today are morally righteous, abstinent kids who think the top story of the year is one girl having sex.
Along with this I kept getting confused by two of the male characters, one which is a love interest and another the love interest of the friend. They looked so identical they could have been brothers. I guess the days are gone of individuality in movies. It's sad that there's tons of people out there with different looks and styles but time and time again it seems only the bland are chosen. The perfectly etched and cropped 20 somethings playing teenagers was a trend started years ago, but at least in the breakfast club they weren't all from the same block of the beautiful clay and there was a bit of originality than a group of people with nothing but the typical bland hollywood good looks which youve seen so much of they might as well all be the same person.
This movies one redeeming trait was it's diolage, mainly that of the lead character Olive who was one of the few 'teenagers' in this movie which could actually act. Amanda Bynes couldn't have been more stereotypical and off base with her character. If you've seen one religious teen in movies you've seen them all and Amanda Bynes was certainly not trying to break any molds here.
The movie ran a predictable coarse but wasn't overly boring to watch. Easily forgettable and nothing worth quoting but could serve decently to pass some time.
