Easy A (2010): easy C-, really

I know, heresy! I shouldn't be writing about a modern movie, I've done that in few occasions and they all were related with old movies (like The Painted Veil review). But, I feel I need to warn you about this one, because everyone was talking about it and it got lots of good reviews. I really don't know why.

Easy A (2010)  is like The Scarlet Letter set in modern times. Like 10 things I hate about you was based in William Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew and Clueless was "based" on Jane Austen's Emma, etc. OK, the connection is really pale, but the main character does mention that you should see the movie instead of reading the book, but one of the old versions, not the one with Demi Moore because her English accent was bad and... whatever.

So...Easy A. Really bad movie. Why? I don't know about you, but I detest scripts that want to break the record of sex jokes per minute, not matter if they end up being gratuitous and unconnected. In this teen film, everyone is obsessed with sex: the school counselor, the main character's parents, her best friend, the whole school, the priest, etc, etc.

Emma Stone plays a girl who accidentally ruins her reputation by inventing she had a one-night stand and gets the attention of her peers. For some reason, Emma Stone's character wasn't noticed by the rest of the students before this polemic episode, so she starts enjoying all the buzz around her and decides to magnify the lies. The result is that the 98% of the people she knows believes she is a slut, which is not funny at all, as she discovers (duh).

Besides the unappealing story, this film contains terribly stereotyped characters, like Amanda Byne's religious fanatic schoolgirl character, the kind guy that always loved Emma but didn't tell her until the end of the movie, Phoebe Buffay  Lisa Kudrow playing the crazy and unhelpful school counselor, the nice teacher that believes in her student and, of course, the ultra liberal parents played by Staley Tucci and Kevin Costner's wife in The Untouchables (Tucci even asks his adopted kid where did he come from). I didn't really connected with any of them. 

Yeah, maybe Emma Stone did a good job portraying the sarcastic, learned, but completely inconsistent main character, but that would be the only positive characteristic of this film. Oh, and the sequence where she gets a musical card with a catchy tune that she doesn't like but ends up singing it in out loud in different moments during a weekend:

End of the fun stuff. So, trust me, don't rent this mash up of that really stupid movie called American Pie and the entertaining  Mean  Girls and save one hour and a half of your life.



PS-- Even when in the film they refer to the 1934 version of the The Scarlet Letter, I plan to see the silent one starring Lilian Gish, looks great!!