The movie was probably the best teen comedy I've ever seen in a long while. The only problem with the movie is that it was not meant to be such.
Why, it is WAY overblown on nearly every aspect. Indeed, some kids do have sex (often careless) and such in high school, but the movie tries to illustrate that nearly every teenager do the same thing: they are either very fond of engaging into sexual relationships or end up succumbing to peer pressure and doing it. Which is absolutely untrue, likewise with the amount of sexual partners each has. Plus, during my earlier years, teenagers tended to use condoms whilst performing intercourse, but the movie suggests they don't (after all, everyone gets Syphilis in the end). Also, according to the movie, internet cafés are where the babes hangout! Wait, what? Each character is far too stereotypical as well, and their actions, terribly predictable: the helpless good girl who gives in to peer pressure, the pompous popular guy who happens to have absent parents, the whorish girl who has sex with everyone, the bad skater dude, the artsy guy who plays the role of saint and so on. Oh, and of course the portrayal of the Church as a bastion of goodness and morality among the sex-driven and liberal culture couldn't be left out as well.
And no good is ever talked about on Instant Messengers. Seriously, it's all about party and sex, as suggested by the IM's name: "TeenPlaya". What else could you expect?? Ah, the teenage parties! Alcohol, drugs and SEX. They're all the same.
...Not to mention the dialogue is painful, particularly those involving the "parents". It was hard to watch Hannah's mother speaking without wanting to place the palm of my hand in my face.
However, me and my peers still had many laughs while watching "She's Too Young". The few unexpected scenes were impossible to watch without bursting laughing out loud, most of the dull dialogue were deserving of a smile, and the absurdity of other moments led all of us to spill some Dr. Pepper in the couch.
Conclusively, it was very entertaining, but definitively not on the way it was meant to be, hence I'm voting a low rating for the movie.
Why, it is WAY overblown on nearly every aspect. Indeed, some kids do have sex (often careless) and such in high school, but the movie tries to illustrate that nearly every teenager do the same thing: they are either very fond of engaging into sexual relationships or end up succumbing to peer pressure and doing it. Which is absolutely untrue, likewise with the amount of sexual partners each has. Plus, during my earlier years, teenagers tended to use condoms whilst performing intercourse, but the movie suggests they don't (after all, everyone gets Syphilis in the end). Also, according to the movie, internet cafés are where the babes hangout! Wait, what? Each character is far too stereotypical as well, and their actions, terribly predictable: the helpless good girl who gives in to peer pressure, the pompous popular guy who happens to have absent parents, the whorish girl who has sex with everyone, the bad skater dude, the artsy guy who plays the role of saint and so on. Oh, and of course the portrayal of the Church as a bastion of goodness and morality among the sex-driven and liberal culture couldn't be left out as well.
And no good is ever talked about on Instant Messengers. Seriously, it's all about party and sex, as suggested by the IM's name: "TeenPlaya". What else could you expect?? Ah, the teenage parties! Alcohol, drugs and SEX. They're all the same.
...Not to mention the dialogue is painful, particularly those involving the "parents". It was hard to watch Hannah's mother speaking without wanting to place the palm of my hand in my face.
However, me and my peers still had many laughs while watching "She's Too Young". The few unexpected scenes were impossible to watch without bursting laughing out loud, most of the dull dialogue were deserving of a smile, and the absurdity of other moments led all of us to spill some Dr. Pepper in the couch.
Conclusively, it was very entertaining, but definitively not on the way it was meant to be, hence I'm voting a low rating for the movie.