Mockingly Hackneyed

Rating: 3/10 (22 December 2010)

"Easy A" starts off OK for about 10-15 min of the runtime but degenerates into trashy reprehensible mockery. Watching a bunch of 20-somethings parade around a fictitious high school as utterly unconvincing high school students with ADD, false-religion, and zeal fails at being a farce. The rip-offs from older and better done "teen" and John Hughes movies litters this movie and signals it's bereavement of ideas. Particularly awful are decent full-aged and experienced adult actors as parents reduced to mocking child-buddies especially Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson. For example in several scenes, you have Clarkson giving inappropriate WAY over-the-top sex talks with her high school daughter, lead Emma Stone. This movie is a sad example of supposed aimed parody that utterly fails. Stay away or if you have to pick it up at the library.