I have never seen Easy A. I am not commenting on the movie, just the review I read.
Glenn Kenny writes Emma Stone's husky voice and "cat-who-swallowed-the-canary-look" don't compute as an average high school student. Well Mr. Kenny obviously you have never been to a high school in the year 2010. I graduated last June, but I know plenty of girls my age (18) and younger who have a husky voice kind of like Emma Stone. And I've seen girls that resemble Stone as well.
Kenny also comments on Stone's dialogue in the movie: It doesn't help that her dialogue makes her sound like a film-studies major just out of her 20s. "There's a higher power that will judge you for your indecency," Bynes' character advises Olive at one point. "Tom Cruise?"
Then Kenny says how nice it is that Hollywood thinks Tom Cruise registers that high on a high school girl's philosophy. I don't think Kenny realizes the writers were making a joke. And honestly I have heard people joke about Tom Cruise. I mean, he DID jump up and down on Oprah's yellow couch and he's a Scientologist which plenty of high schoolers/ college goers joke about now and again.
I don't argue with how many stars Kenny gave Easy A, or that he rated it a 72/100. That's not the point of this little rant. The point is Glenn Kenny's reasoning for not exactly liking the movie. Some of the points he made were not valid. Some were, don't get me wrong here.
Anyways, I plan to see the movie somewhat soon. Then I might blog about my review of the movie Easy A. I am sure I will not be agreeing with what Glenn Kenny said.
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