Enjoyable with a touch more ...

Rating: 9/10 (7 November 2011)

Yes, it is certainly enjoyable, but it also felt like it had something else; that I can't quite put my finger on. Emma Stone is fantastic, as is the direction; even so, I definitely knew just by the style that it was a teen comedy and I suppose that can be a good thing, remember when teen comedies used to be good? Yeah? well Easy A is a clear homage to John Hughes so we're in luck with this one. I think we are so used to mediocre teen comedies that this came along and bit us in the backside. For starters it doesn't finish, thank god, with everyone being friends again and high school suddenly being all OK; all that is left for beyond the end credits at least. No, Easy A finishes with a believable (on some level) resolution, you do have a very clichéd look at high school with the fast spread of rumours and the different cliques but you do need some of that narrative for it to actually work inside its genre. Good work this, I recommend.