Its a straight 4 in my opinion. But just to be fair to the public, I would rate 3.5. The acting and plot is really good. Though less drama required here compared to When in Rome, Kristen Bell was willing to take on a humiliating role of putting on a geeky, loserish look to be humiliated in a high school setting, not only that, got a pot of starchy soup poured on her. Well, not really a problem, since she's paid. But in terms of acting expressions, she did really well. Being able to portray sarcasm, jealousy, suspicious, revengeful and forgiving almost one minute after another is impressive.
*(The movie begins with Kristen filming herself when she was in high school. You'll know later how the video was used in a disastrous way. It begins with a high school setting, showing how everyone carried her out of the school door and locked her outside, to show her that she's not welcome. Other scenes like she approaching an obvious empty seat in a canteen and everyone's just telling her the seat is taken and bumping into her crush and toppling the entire dish on his shirt. Yeah, it makes her look really bad. But all changed as she grew up. She is now the PR of a firm. One day, coming home from work, she realized her brother is marrying her high school bully, the one who lead the others to showed her she is unwelcome and the one who boxed her when she was wearing a mascot and got her to bumped into the basketball player on the court which was her brother and causing him not to score the important decisive goal. I think Americans can really make anyone a real loser if they want to. However, this time when she faced up with her high school bully, she was not intimidated but stood her ground took revenge in her own way.
Kristen found out her bully was in relationship with a guy before and brought him to her bridal shower and he declared his undying love for her in front of everyone. Making it worst, the husband did not know about this before. Kristen exposed the video of her being a bully in school in front of everyone. The two of them got into a cat fight. To make things worst Kristen's mum and her bully's mum were arch enemies too. Watch to see how they patch back in a real comforting and sweet way.)
This movie touches on friendship and life might get back on you if you were a bully before even though how much you've changed. Not everyone might forgive you so easily. But everything would go well if you confess and make up. Real heartwarming.
Monday, November 8, 2010
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