Easy A: A Quick Review




  Easy A came highly recommended by many friends, especially women. I'm not really sure why, it's a pretty standard teen comedy. Probably because it's told from the perspective of a girl and doesn't really fall into the chick flick category.

Emma Stone stars as Olive; an apparently socially inept high schooler, even though she's pretty attractive. One day a rumor gets spread that she slept with some college dude because her stupid friend couldn't keep her stupid whore mouth shut. All of a sudden Olive gets a lot of attention from people even though it's because of a fake romance. Her gay friend hears about this and proposes that she pretend to sleep with him so the other guys will think he is straight and stop beating him up. She does and then other socially inept kids pay her to pretend sleep with her and become cool kids. Olive becomes the school slut and gets involved in some pretty scandalous things like chlamydia and extra marital affairs.

Easy A is all about morals. There are so many attempts at morals it is unbelievable. The biggest one is be true to yourself and the second biggest one is don't lie because you'll probably end up as the school skank. In the midst of all these moral espousings Easy A exhibits extremely terrible morals while trying to convey good ones. The biggest one happens near the end. The gay kid previously mentioned decides to just be gay instead of hiding. Hey that's great. Oh wait he does it by running off with a random black dude a la Huckleberry Finn. Wait what? You're telling me he just dropped out of high school to be with a random guy and run away from home? Wow, that's a great moral Easy A. He's living in a motel room with a man he just met. There's more but they just make me angry. And Amanda Bynes is really annoying.

Emma Stone does pretty well in the title role here. When she's not acting out a caricature of herself she is actually pretty funny. But she can't hold a candle to Stanley Tucci. He is an amazingly funny man and every time he was on screen I laughed. Just one of those actors that brings so much more to his films.

Easy A is pretty funny. Not Juno funny, or even as good, but it was still enjoyable. It has some twists to make it fresh but it certainly isn't a modern classic. Rentable would be a good word for it.

2 and a half stars out of 4

-Christopher O'Connell