Easy A (2010– 92mins) Emma Stone

A pretty simple way to describe Easy A is mean girls crossed with a John Hughes movie. It’s kinda cheesy to describe a movie in one way that it wants to describe itself as in the movie but Easy A is a good little movie so I’ll give it a pass on that. Stone plays Olive, a high school student who keeps to herself and her best friend Rhiannon(A. Michalka). She tells her friend a little white lie to get out of a camping trip and it eventually spirals out of control until it turns her into the school tramp. The movie revolves around this downward spiral and Olive trying to set it all straight and make it all right. It’s the usual young adult Hughesian fare that everything is miscommunication and “what would Jack and Chrissy do now” moments but it’s light funny and doesn’t overstay it’s welcome at all. Stone has a natural charisma which gets us to like her and is surrounded by welcome distractions such as her whack-a-doodle parents(Patricia Clarkson and S. Tucci), whom seem to have entirely too much trust in the world but give us some chuckles, and her teacher (Thomas Haden Church) and his wife (Lisa Kudrow), all of which help give us distractions when the whole school scene gets a bit slow at times.

Verdict—> This is a fun watch that I think men and women both will like. It’s PG-13 which I think is about right. It’s got plenty of themes of sex,drugs and peer pressure which I would say is not apropriate here until high school age. Put it in the high level of red box rents for date night b/c it’s funny and enjoyable.

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