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B.J. W. (analogkid01) from CHICAGO, IL Reviewed on 7/5/2025...
Hey let's lighten things up a bit today and talk about Will Gluck's 2010 film "Easy A" with Emma Stone!
It's okay. Pretty funny in parts. Emma plays Olive Penderghast, a high school student who inadvertently starts her own rumor about losing her virginity. In an acknowledged nod to Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," Olive suffers social backlash until she realizes that she can weaponize her newfound notoriety in service of others.
She begins by allowing a gay classmate to claim he had sex with her in order to appear straight. He even compensates her financially for validating the rumor. Other students follow with their own varying motivations, and Olive builds herself up a little cottage industry.
The film annoyed me at first because the dialogue of the "high schoolers" felt like a 40-year-old writer's attempt at being edgy and clever. Fortunately Olive has some adults in her life to interact with as well - her favorite teacher Mr. Griffith (Thomas Haden Church) and her parents, played by Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson (Tammy One for you Parks & Rec fans). These scenes genuinely are fun and much better-written. The central framing device of the story is that Olive is confessing all these events via a "webcast," and those scenes of Stone breaking the fourth wall are enjoyable as well.
"Easy A" is no "Superbad" but it's an enjoyable-enough watch, especially if you just watched a movie about a nuclear holocaust or whatever.
Grade: B-minus
K. K. (GAMER) Reviewed on 5/24/2025...
Most people liked this one but a few won't.
Linda R. from GLENN DALE, MD Reviewed on 8/1/2013...
good laughs
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Brad S. (Snibot) from DALLAS, TX Reviewed on 5/24/2012...
What a great flick. All of the actors really turn it up a notch here with some performances that won awards and well deserved ... Such great chemistry onscreen.
The writing is really well done, and the direction keeps the movie together and moving. I really like the style of narration, Emma has a nice clear voice and great inflection - she should do audio books. One of the most impressive things about this movie is that none of the actors outdoes anyone else, everyone does such a great job.
It is an old premise, but there is enough new on it that it doesn't get old, and you never really know what is coming next.
Check it out, at least at Red Box ... you will be entertained.
2 of 3 member(s) found this review helpful.
Jackie S. (jamase83) from CLIFFWOOD, NJ Reviewed on 4/7/2011...
I was totally on board to see this movie for Emma Stone alone and she delivered 100%. The film teaches an important lesson to young girls about how lies can get out of hand and ruin people's reputations. Also great performances by Amanda Bynes, Stanley Tucci,Thomas Haden Church, Cam Gigandet, and Lisa Kudrow to name a few. It was terrific because it was a very real movie addressing real high school issues, bad reputations, student teacher affairs, best friends fighting over boys, and suppressed homosexuality.