Easy A

I love this movie. I remember seeing it on the big screen. It never gets old.

I absolutely loved this movie! It is a comedy and does have a couple of words here and there that may not be suitable for small children. The main character in the movie does wear some racy clothing as she continues on her course of self-discovery, and decides that dressing conservative just does not fit her new reputation. Victoria's Secret and Fredrick's of Hollywood type of clothing worn to high school is not actually something that would be allowed in real life. This movie definitely shows what happens when one small amount of information is blown up and goes through a telephone type of friend line, becoming grossly distorted along the way. This movie also shows a lot of the interpersonal relationships between different characters, such as, best friends, frenemies, boy/girl, etc. It is nice to see a movie where the main character still has some morals and is willing to help out friends who just do not feel popular or accepted. There are quite a few stars in the movie, with Emma Stone being the main character, who gets into a situation at her high school while trying to impress her slutty best friend. I chose to purchase the Blu-ray version over the regular DVD, and it was a good choice, as the movie plays so much clearer and crisper. The movie was wrapped in plastic, and had the original cover, so it was not a knock off copy made by some backwoods person trying to pass it off as the original. Overall, a very good movie choice

This is no big-budget blockbuster but it's no lowly-funded indy film either. Its high school drama exaggerated just enough to make it funny with a terrific cast who make it work.Emma Stone shines as a girl who evidently defines all the stereotypes of her high school by being smart (personally, no problem with the "smart" thing.) Her brash manner, sarcastic dialogue, and timely delivery make me wonder how much of all that was actually scripted. Perhaps this is a "period piece" of the 21st century, holding up a mirror to America's high schools and the expectations and beliefs that drive so many teenagers' actions.My main (and quite possibly only legit) complaint has to do with Thomas Haden Church and Malcolm McDowell. Both men are great actors and were sinfully underused in this film...granted, I don't know how their roles could have been expanded, but I don't work in Hollywood. All I know for sure is that their performances were just as enjoyable as Ms. Stone's and I wish I could have seen more of them. At least the producers didn't go the easy route and cast unknowns we couldn't enjoy in these roles. As little screen-time as they got, every second was worth it...so why couldn't they have gotten more?But if you are willing to live with such an injustice as I seem to manage to, add this film to your collection. It's always good for a laugh...and you can watch Emma Stone doing her own version of karaoke. Enjoy.

Emma stone is great as well as pre crazy Amanda. Movie is fun, pokes fun and just really embodies high school. I could watch it over and over and never get tired.

I did consider rating Easy A a bit lower, because it's certainly far from perfect. But I had to take into consideration that it's just so *watchable*, and has been my go to movie for awhile now when I'm really bored, and after seeing it I think six times I still am not really tired of it. Easy A is frequently paired with Mean Girls, in that both seem to be satires of social and sexual politics in high school, but I must say I loathe Mean Girls. As far as I can tell Easy A is more intelligent, less pretentious, and less overall annoying than MG by a long shot. While it does make some huge assumptions about the behavior of teens to drive its plot, and relies on stereotypes at times, it can raise some interesting questions about conformity or whatever. Maybe the ideas Easy A addresses aren't new, but that isn't how satire works in the first place.I excuse a number of Easy A's issues-- stereotypes, assumptions, and the need for a fair amount of suspension of disbelief-- by assuming that it's intended as a farce. Here's the definition of a farce from Wikipedia, not because I assume you don't know it but because it fits the movie so goshdarn perfect: a comedy that aims at entertaining the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humor of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include word play, and a fast-paced plot whose speed usually increases. So it doesn't matter that in real life, the *entire* school would never care about one girl's (boring at first) sexual exploits. It's just a plot device to make a point about how society views men having sex in a more positive light than women doing it. As for the stereotypical Christian characters, yeah, I can see how the depiction would be offensive to some. Should they have been more fleshed out? Yeah, probably, but I'm not sure there was *time*. Again, they served a narrative purpose. Though packaged as a silly teen comedy, this was a movie with something to say.That all sounded iffy, so here's some stuff I definitely like: first of all, I was pretty happy with how they wrote the gay kid. He had some depth. He was sympathetic. UNLIKE the supposedly gay boy in Mean Girls, he did *not* kiss a *girl*, and was actually shown to have a boyfriend at the end of the movie. So that's cool. I don't know what he's doing for money, since he ran away from home, but we'll assume he's got something worked out. I also liked the way the film was structured as a webcast, and Emma Stone's performance-- of course. There were some truly affecting moments with her character, like when she admitted in confession that everyone hated her, and she kind of hated herself as well; also when she and Brandon had a moment after their supposed tryst at the party. He was really grateful and all, but I don't think it made up for how everybody stared at her when she left the room. That brings me to Todd. He was actually waaaaay more understanding than the main character deserved, and certainly a candidate for most tolerant (boy)friend ever. Finally, I don't know if the climactic scene with the musical number is a thing that would happen in real life, but it was an homage to '80s movies in the first place and it was also really cool.So overall, I can understand some criticism of this movie, but I still like it a lot. It seems to be the sort of teen girl movie that a lot of guys can appreciate, and I'm not entirely sure why that is, but it's awesome. Now if only people weren't willing to gut me for dumping on Mean Girls. Talk about your stupid stereotypes, but that is neither here nor there. Easy A gets a 3.5. It would get a 4 if I didn't actually think that Christians had a point in feeling offended by it.