Good movie. 80s nostalgia for grownups, more than teen comedy. Gratuitous Christian bashing detracted.

Rating: 7/10 (18 September 2010)

Enjoyed this flick. Go 80s!
1) I like Emma Stone, an intelligent, articulate and charismatic actress. 2) Made me think a little of Mean Girls in structure, though Mean Girls had sharper comedy, though Emma's better than LL in this kind of role, and Easy A was definitely more... sincere. 3) Family interaction was very enjoyable if a little unbelievable. 4) Premise was not believable in 2010 high school, that a girl claiming to sleep with somebody, would generate a stir. Maybe in the 80s. 5) Actors and actresses, I agree, were more like community college age than high school, and that was at times jarring. 6) Thomas Hayden Church was fun.
7) The Christian bashing was gratuitous... I can understand making a joke or two about Christians promoting abstinence, but the non-funny caricatures of over-emotional Jesus promoting, emotionally stunted Christian club went on and on and on. I don't know when it became "open season" to thoroughly bash a religious group like that, but it was over the top and unnecessary. Unlike the rest of the characters in the movie, the Christians are NOT actual fleshed out characters, despite the amount of screen time. They are tacked on, like the writer just had a personal agenda.
Despite the Christian baiting, which I pretty much tuned out halfway through the movie, and definitely marred it unnecessarily, I enjoyed the rest of it, and give it a 7.