Emma Stone's Easy A is one of the smartest teen comedies I've seen this year

Rating: 8/10 (20 September 2010)

I had gone into watching Emma Stone's Easy A with some expectations of a smart teen comedy about reputations and the stereotypes of characterizations that one expects when those kinds of things arise but I got a lot more with the mostly smart dialogue that references everything from the Demi Moore version of The Scarlet Letter to the '80s teen hit films like those of John Hughes (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off), Cameron Crowe (Say Anything...), and Patrick Dempsey (Can't Buy Me Love). There's a few more but I'll just say that I was just overjoyed at both the funny and touching moments that permeated the whole thing and loved not only the performances of Ms. Stone but also Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci as her parents, Amanda Bynes as her religious-nut enemy, Thomas Haden Church as her favorite teacher, and Lisa Kudrow as a not-always normal guidance counselor, among others. Nothing more to say except Easy A comes highly recommended.