Hollywood perfected the teenmoneymaking formula.

Rating: 1/10 (18 April 2015)

To begin with, the movie was horrible as we all expected.The thing is, that horrible movie made some serious money and proved that there is no need for new ideas and good writing for a movie to achieve that kind of gross.
Why invest time and effort on a better movie when we can just modify our target audience expectations? That's why every now and then a new Mtv-like teen actor who's interviews are like audiobooks of what their managers has given them to read pops up into the movie business.
The formula is now known. A teen next door who is just so random and socially awkward and can't stand mainsteam fashions and activities is globally cherished as other teens crave for someone to relate to.
However, that's not a new thing. In fact it's the same thing that macho men and dynamic women represented in the 90s as well as the 80s. The thing is that those actors, because of their Hollywood persona, actually had a personality. Now teen actors have nothing that would differentiate them from one another except their face. They are just mirrors for teens to put themselves on as they have no characteristic that would not match with any of their own.
That's why we end with such talentless and without personality actors, and a script that supports such characters:
"A common teen like any other (THAT COULD BE YOU!) finds him/herself in a situation of him/her being different of their peers(OMG THAT'S LIKE TOTALLY HOW I FEEL!) and achieve greatness being a non conformist in a world full of conformists." sounds familiar?
Please stop paying for such movies. Make them try harder.