Easy A

Emma Stone

Hyper-modern attempt to update the teen comedy. Roughly echoes The Scarlet Letter.

Maybe I'm just too old for this kind of material. I found this to be crude, dumbed down...sort of an exaggerated Ferris Bueller or 16 Candles without the wit or loopy charm. ES, while demonstrating undeniable star quality, came across as a 35 year old woman stuck in a retro nightmare.

This is how decadence works...trying to out-do predecessors like John Hughes or Chris Columbus 25 years later but completely missing the sensibility that made their films work.

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