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Emma Stone is great in
this movie. Stanley Tucci does pretty good work too. Most of the actors
do fairly well and work their butts off and act their butts off. But
they weren't the problems here. They were fine.
Everyone is so goddamn
clever in this movie. Seriously. You get great performances out of
everyone in this movie, but Jesus Christ, does everyone have to say
something clever every 5 seconds? Even the kid who doesn't really know
much and is adopted gets to be clever? Even the Religious people get to
be clever, and they're the "villains." Even the teachers. Okay? Really?
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So that's
the major issue here. But there's more. They are attempting
a modern remake of the Scarlet Letter just like Clueless was
a modern remake of Emma by Jane Austen. So use the same
instincts and young women are going to love this movie just
like they loved Clueless.
Fine. Great.
Good. But it doesn't fully commit. It's a remake with very
clever people and very pessimistic people at the same time
who are also living in the age of Twitter and everything
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So we're given
something that boils down to more of a remake of a John Hughes
movie. It's Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller's Day
Off all rolled into one. You're watching a movie that owes almost
all of it's sensibilities to other movies, and if you like that sort
of thing, you'll love this. Me? Not so much.
Watch Clueless. Sixteen
Candles. Pretty In Pink. Uncle Buck or any John Hughes movie and you'll
feel better about your choice because you have one overly clever person
in a world full of normal people, and not just a world full of Macauley
Culkin's from "Home Alone." Seriously. Avoid.
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