This past weekend, I had the pleasure of seeing ‘Easy A’. And when I say “pleasure”, it was exactly that. Emma Stone captivated me when she played the ultimate geeky sorority girl in The House Bunny. Then she had another break role as a badass woman in Zombieland; now, an outstanding role in Easy A. To tell you the truth, she’s going to be huge if she keeps choosing these great roles (as she has already been doing).
Easy A is about a student [Stone] who is just an ordinary, somewhat boring girl in her high school. Until she pretends to sleep with a guy as a favor, she is unnoticed. Word starts spreading on how Stone helped the guy out, so other pathetic-type guys start lining up to Stone with hopes that she’ll, at least, lie about having slept with them. Once rumors start spreading about her “indecency”, as Amanda Bynes categorizes Stone’s behavior in the film, the whole school starts to backlash and attack Emma. So in the end, Stone has to make the ultimate decision: Tell everyone that she’s been lying about sleeping around, or let the past be the past and just move on from there.
This story is a typical 80’s type movie, brought to the future in today’s 21st Century cinema. The movie really touches the idea of Stone’s situation being a typical “John Hughes” storyline, which perhaps may be true. All in all though, this movie was greatly entertaining. Lisa Kudrow was featured in the movie, and what can go wrong when our ‘Phoebe’ is in the picture?… well a lot of things, especially if she plays a troublesome social worker, as she does in Easy A.
The cast is great and the humor is astonishing. The A-List cast really takes this movie to the next level. Maybe it’s because I find myself in a younger demographic, but I loved this movie. A friend, my brother, and I all went and saw it together, and we found ourselves laughing so hard we started to cry. So I genuinely recommend seeing this movie if you haven’t already.
This movie could have easily been named based off of the ratings of all of the factors that bring the film together. It is simply an ‘Easy A’.
