Smart and funny with good performances

Rating: 8/10 (22 November 2011)

Though I have never been very impressed by director John Hughes, much less the Hughes parody films, I found myself engaged and even enthralled by Will Gluck's Easy A. The premise is intelligent in the fact that it takes Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter as its literary and character template. Gluck than combines this with John Hughes parody to create this original, even provocative film. The lines and dialogue are conveyed well by Stone and Bynes scores a hit as a snotty church girl with a lot of hang-ups. I was surprised to find that I had no hang-ups with this teen comedy that is actually worth seeing or even a second viewing.