If you loved the first one, you will like the 2nd one!
In this made for ABC family original movie, Jo (Meaghan Martin) is the new girl in town, and she has an edge to her that everyone seems to like. Abby (Jennifer Stone) is the welcoming committee, and she sits with Jo at lunch. This is where we learn that the head of the plastics, Mandi (Maiara Walsh) hates Abby because she has always had more than her. Jo sticks up for Abby and takes her home when her car gets ruined. Abby’s dad talks to Jo and asks her to become Abby’s friend and he will pay for her college tuition. Jo resists at first, but then starts to hang out with Abby more and more, and finds out that she really likes her. Abby and Jo also start to team up against the plastics, and Jo even starts dating Mandi’s brother Tyler (Diego Gonzalez Boneta).
Like any other teen drama, we see the hijinks get out of control, and of course everyone turns against Jo because they find out that she was paid to be Abby’s friend and she was also framed for stealing the Homecoming fundraiser movie. Will Jo be able to explain her way out of this one? Will Abby and Jo ever be friends again? And will Tyler ever forgive her for making these choices and becoming one of the “mean girls”?
I thought it was a very cute made for TV movie. I really like the movies that have been made for ABC family. As much as I loved the original Mean Girls, I think this one was a good sequel. It had the same bullying concept, but different characters and a different type of plot. I think that everyone who enjoys ABC family will like this film!
Charlie Bartlett is an enigmatic youth. He has just been kicked out of another private school, this time for selling fake ids, causing his mother (Hope Davis, The Matador, American Splendor), to enroll him into public school. Things for Charlie (Anton Yelchin, Alpha Dog, Hearts in Atlantis) do not go smoothly, however, for Charlie on his first day at his new school. To start, he is repeatedly mistaken for a teacher due to choice of wearing a private school blazer and to carry a satchel. As a result, the school bully, Murphey Bivens (Tyler Hilton, Walk the Line, One Tree Hill), decides to beat up Charlie. Despite this, Charlie is anxious to fit in and he even tries out for the school play on his first day. His somewhat bizarre behavior, including reciting a scene from the Vagina Monologues for his tryout, catches the eye of Susan Gardner (Kat Dennings, 40 Year Old Virgin, Raise Your Voice).
Charlie, being the young enterpriser that he is, figures out a way to make lemonade from his lemons. Rather than shirking away in fear from Murphey, Charlie partners up with him and together they sell some of Charlie’s prescription meds to the students at a dance, with fantastic results. The next day, Charlie begins offering anonymous psychiatric help through the stalls of the boy’s bathroom. Charlie offers suggestions and even hands out prescriptions from his ridiculous stash due to his overzealous team of psychiatrists trying to medicate him through his life. Soon, Charlie transitions from school nobody to the big man on campus. He is asked to help lead the revolt against they tyrannical school board and principal, Principal Gardner (Robert Downey Jr., A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), Susan’s father.
Charlie Bartlett is a delight to watch. Robert Downey Jr. is amazing as the tormented principal who is trying to be both an authority figure to a school of teenagers and also a father for Susan. Anton Yelchin shines as Charlie Bartlett, a kid who hides behind his comedy and a veil of caring to avoid dealing with his own problems, an absent father and a medically absent mother. Charlie Bartlett is going to launch Anton’s acting career into the cosmos. Tyler Hilton and Kat Dannings are tremendous as well.
Charlie Bartlett is a film with heart and soul. It accurately depicts the difficulties of being a teenager these days and takes on the readiness of professionals to medicate kids to make them easier to deal with. It would be nice if everyone had a little more Charlie Bartlett in them.
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist is a high school fantasy for indie rock nerds.
Imagine if back when you were 17, instead of playing CDs in your bedroom and dreaming about getting up the nerve to talk to a girl or guy, you played bass in a punk band that performed gigs in New York City. After your show, you hopped around the Lower East Side with a cute girl who knew all your favorite I-liked-'em-first bands, and who could get you into any club in town. You and she and your buddies partied until dawn with nary a care for the consequences, the law, or your parents.
That's Nick & Norah. Sadly, it's not as much fun as it looks.
When we meet Nick (Michael Cera) he is nursing the emotional wounds from a savage break-up with the monstrous Tris (Alexis Dziena). For therapy, he skips school and withdraws to his bedroom for ritualistic burning of mix CDs. Nick is also the only straight member of a queer-core band temporarily called The Jerk-Offs, who somehow find good gigs even though they're backed by a toy drum machine.
Norah (Kat Dennings) is the frumpy daughter of a music industry legend, who's conflicted about her privilege, but still gladly exploits it to skip the line at her favorite rock clubs. She and her party-girl pal Caroline train over to NYC to see The Jerk-Offs open for the awesome, awesome Bishop Allen.
After the show, Nick and Norah soon discover their mutual love for the (fictional) indie legends Where's Fluffy and go off to find their secret late-nite show. But Nick's not the only one with issues - Norah's got an intermittent relationship with another musician.
Meanwhile, Tris traipses around town with her new college boyfriend, but her jealousy at seeing Nick vibe with Norah - who Tris sees as a frigid nobody - inspires her to recapture Nick. Meanwhile, Nick, Norah, and the other Jerk-Offs drive around town searching for Caroline, who is lost, broke, and foolishly drunk.
You couldn't have asked for more winning leads for this semi-wild night than Cera and Dennings. As he previously demonstrated in 2007's left-right combo of Superbad and Juno, Cera is Gen Y's John Cusack. He is blessed with quiet understatement, masterful comic timing, and an earnestness that's impossible not to love.
Dennings also feels marvelously legit. They could have gotten another hot chick with glasses to play Norah, but Dennings wears her oddball quirk like she owns it. And her chemistry with Cera reminds us why movies are usually better than real life.
But Nick & Norah's movie-real-life nexus is tenuous at best. These characters are, after all, ostensibly in high school. But after you've watched a group of 20-something actors routinely drink and party in hipster clubs, navigate the Lower East Side like it's the mall in Paramus, prattle about three-year relationships, and rock out 'til dawn, it's a little jarring to hear the occasional reference to college admissions. Unlike Superbad, which hysterically celebrated the tensions and failures of underage merriment, Nick & Norah more or less ignores the lifestyle differences between ages 17 and 23.
That sucks a lot of the potential fun out of the story, and the vomit gags, slapstick, and wacky cameos fail to substitute. Most disappointingly, for all their charms, Cera and Dennings are denied the conflict required to make their budding relationship interesting. From frame one, it's obvious that these two characters have everything in common and destiny awaits their union.It's the title of the movie.
What to say? It was Despicable Me all over again. Well, yeah. It was. But the ending was very much entertaining. I didn’t even expected the little twist at the end. And the dancing and music was totally hip. And oh, I love me some Tina Fey. So this was still quite good afterall.
A steady flow of superhero-movie conventions are given the wink-wink treatment in this hyperactive Dreamworks animation about Megamind, a blue, bulbous-headed scoundrel, voiced by Will Ferrell, who plunges into depression when he unexpectedly kills his rival, Metro Man (voiced by Brad Pitt), and finds himself short of anyone to foil his schemes. At a low ebb (and holding a torch for feisty, Jean Seberg-a-like reporter Roxanne Ritchi, voiced by Tina Fey) he entertains the notion of giving up evil altogether.
If this sounds a little like the recent ‘Despicable Me’, that’s because it rolls with a similar idea, albeit employing a more realistic animation style and a strain of reference-heavy humour aimed at a slightly more mature audience. But the film also pinches a few pages out of the ‘Kick-Ass’ rule book, notably in the way it dismantles the archetypal ‘masked crusader’ and delights in revealing the mundane chores of life as a full-time master of chaos: those jumbo-collared leather capes don’t just stitch themselves, you know.
I really didn’t like this at first because it was full of cliche. But the last few minutes were really good. I had to take back my words because that rarely happens in movies. Losing the game and the boyfriend? Suffice to say, I didn’t expect that. The mom thing strike home, actually.
Ellen Page, always the BAMF. What’s not to like about her? Also, the fact that Drew Barrymore directed this and played a very amusing character made the movie quite entertaining. So that’s it, the movie was pleasing, to say the least.
Technically, I was only 2 years old when this was came out at the cinemas, So don’t blame if I’ve just seen this epic movie this morning. They were comparing it to Mean Girls and Easy A and those two rocked so I figured, why the hell not.
I loved this. Albeit, slow paced and predictable I still really enjoyed it. And holy mother effing shit, like seriously, I was all ‘GOD. WHY IS ALICIA SILVERSTONE SO GORGEOUS? WHY?’ Cheesus. And I was totally fangirling over her all the damn time.
And I think that’s the best part of it all. LMAO
Cast: Alicia Silverstone (Batman & Robin), Stacey Dash (A View from the Top), Brittany Murphy (8 Mile), Twink Caplan (Loser), Donald Faison (TV's Scrubs), Breckin Meyers (Can't Hardly Wait), Dan Hedaya (Swimfan)
Plot: Meet Cher (Silverstone), she's a beautiful, wealthy and popular Beverly Hills teens. She's normal and does shopping every day. We visit a short time in her life as she tries to find romance for 2 teachers, gets robbed and sexually assaulted by a popular jock, realizes she's in love... but with who, has a crush on a new male classmate who turns out to be gay and look cute to go shopping with her best friend Deon (Dash) as well as transform the "new girl" Tye (Murphy) in a popular kid!
Review: I must admit I thought "Clueless' was going to be a dumb witted teen comedy that had no laughs and would probably be just plain boring- that is until I saw it. This film (released in 1995) had me laughing really hard and is a pleasure to watch. Everyone has seen "Clueless" and the critics enjoyed it because it was a laugh a minute comedy. Silverstone brings the character of Cher to life and uses her brains and smarts to really capture the audience. Her comedic performance was also wonderful and showed she would have a bright career. The supporting performances were hilarious also. The film combined real teen issues from sex, to first time drivers and added a little humor to lighten the situation. Many of the jokes used in the film can sometimes be offensive but in all fun its a movie that doesnt really intend to offend anyone. The film also however shows breakout performances by some of Hollywood's hot young faces before they made it big including Murphy and Faison.
Sorry i haven't updated my blog lately. Been busy with work. But now I'll be posting short movie reviews contributed/written by a good friend of mine named Jesse. Hope you'd like it.
If you loved the first one, you will like the 2nd one!
