Easy A

Easy A totally surprised me. I do love the future Mary Jane, Emma Stone, ever since her first role in Superbad. She seems so likable and unique. She doesn't try and be something she's not, which is funny because that's all she did throughout Easy A. This film follows Olive who is not only unpopular, but unknown. The entire film is filled with analogies, which could get old, but these are new and fresh, I continued to enjoy them. The all star cast just kept popping up new familiar faces. Olive is a bit of a do-gooder. Not in the realms you may think. She hates to see people unhappy and decides to help them. One normal day, she is pressured by her best friend to tell her about the sex she had the previous weekend. The problem was she didn't and has never had sex, but that didn't stop the rumor mill from churning. All of the sudden she is less than nobody. She is now re invented. The "God Team" hates her, but other than that she has now arrived as somebody. She enjoys her new notoriety, even though it's based on false pretenses, she's not hurting anyone. One day a boy she knows comes to her with a proposition. He's gay, but not out. At the same time he is mistreated because fellow classmates think he may be gay and high school is getting more and more painful for him. He devises a plan and reluctant as she may be, Olive likes to help people. If they were to put on a charade at a huge party where everyone will see, maybe his rep will turn for the better. They have one of the funniest no sex sex scenes ever. All of the sudden that guy doesn't hate life so much. Word spreads through the loser/nerd/undateable community of her charity work. She takes on more and more and her payments will crack you up. Various gift cards are issued before the "Service" is rendered. She becomes an all out Whore of the school to help lots of people, but one day it becomes to much. She can't handle the whispers anymore. Her dad is played by Stanly Tucci and I must say, he delivers the performance of the film. So funny. But Thomas Haden Church delivers the line of the film, "What is it with your generation's need to document every thought? I gotta say, they're not all diamonds. I mean, who cares what you ate for lunch." The rant continues and the reason this PG-13 comedy works is the dialogue. The bad language is limited, no real sexual situations, but the conversations alone are worth listening to. If I had an audio book of the one liners, and jokes, it would make for an entertaining trip. This film goes to show that comedy still exists without being super raunchy, perverse, and laden with male nudity.

**A special Thanks to "The Chagrinch" ( A concerned Reader) who informed me that Emma Stone is actually to play Gwen Stacey and not Mary Jane in the Spider-Man reboot. My assumption that a natural red head would be MJ was short sided, especially given the history of the franchise which cast an extremely red headed Bryce Dallas Howard as the white headed Gwen Stacey in Spider-Man 3.

NBM rates Easy A - Phenomenal

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