Fantastic high-school comedy that is both witty and insightful.

Rating: 9/10 (16 February 2011)

Easy A reminds me of Mean Girls, Veronica Mars, and The Assassination of a High School President. It is a fun, witty high-school comedy with serious undertones that are very effectively conveyed without being preachy.
Olive (Emma Stone) is an ordinary high-school girl that just doesn't want to hang out with her best friend, Rhriannon, (Alyson Michalka) one weekend. In order to escape she fabricates a date for the weekend, then spends said weekend at home, doing all kinds of unexciting and unremarkable things. Upon returning to school she is relentlessly questioned by Rhriannon in the girl's bathroom about her weekend. In order to get Rhriannon off her back Olive makes up a sex-filled lie that is overheard by the school Jesus freak, Marianne (Amanda Bynes). Thus the rumor is born and spread at the speed of text and overnight Olive becomes the school slut, who also happens still be a virgin. As nobody will believe otherwise, Olive embraces her new image (at least on the surface, she never actually becomes anything remotely resembling a slut) and begins to wear provocative clothing emblazoned with a scarlet "A" in reference to The Scarlett Letter, which she is studying in her English class.
What follows is a very witty and entertaining tale about peer pressure, the power of rumors, self-confidence, individuality, love and self-sacrifice. The movie is funny throughout and the supporting cast includes Malcolm McDowell, Thomas Haden Church, and Stanley Tucci, all of whom are just as entertaining as Emma Stone herself. I very highly recommend this film and plan on buying a copy for myself when I have the opportunity to do so.