Booksmart reviewed by Mark Kermode
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 พ.ค. 2019
- Mark Kermode reviews Booksmart. On the eve of their high school graduation, two best friends who dedicated all their time to academia decide to catch up with all they’ve missed out on by cramming four years of partying into one night.
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I really liked how the secondary characters were portrayed in Booksmart. Usually, with teen comedies, you have the nerdy protagonist with horrible cliquey bullies causing them grief, some kind of change happens and the nerds get their revenge but in Booksmart you find out that actually the nerds were the ones being judgemental and that actually most of the popular kids are quite welcoming in the end. It's a good spin on the usual tropes.
Yeah, I like how when they showed up at the party, people were really happy to see them.
I really liked this movie i can see the comparison to American Graffitti
exactly!! all of the side characters weren’t stereotypical or too cliched, i could imagine all of them being real
Very refreshing film. Tells a pretty important story about Perspectives & Expectations, which I find really important. Very impressive.
Yes that is true @Duke Wellington, however that's my point - you don't see these 'older' style films being made as often these days. In a era where 'Big is Better', this is rather refreshing in the current cinema Zeitgeist.
Superbad meets Lady Bird would be a more accurate description
Yes good one!!
If you had seen american graffitti you would see the comparisons there too
Its much better than Superbad
I found it almost perfect. Easy to take in and enjoy but so uplifting and you feel such a genuine love for ALL the characters at the end, which I find so refreshing.
It's the perfect movie to capture our young generation and our times and makes me feel nostalgia for something that isn't even over yet. I never thought I'd say it... but I'm really going to miss school.
Felt the exact same
2:28 Mark explains how it's not like Superbad by describing it in a way that shows exactly how it's like Superbad...
Totally agree about the trailer, I was completely put off this movie because of it. But now hearing that it's actually good I'm interested again.
I liked the movie, but my main issue with it is that the world in it feels pretty artificial, shallow and empty. If we take the Superbad for example, that world feels like it's moving on its own, like people in it have their own ideas, motivations and routine. In the Booksmart it felt like people were just appearing for the main characters out of nowhere and went into idle mode behind the scenes
I hope I described it right
Is this like the Amy Santiago origin story?
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Saw the film on Monday and it is terrific, but the comparisons to superbad are definitely legitimate. After a recent rewatch superbad is also really well directed and both tender and poignant beneath it's vulgar jokes.
James Coppin
Is there a notebook full of vagina art? 🤪
Saw it last night - really funny and sweet story of female friendship- loved it !
OH! "Superbad" for girls, not "super bad for girls".
"Let's eat, Grandpa!"/"Let's eat Grandpa!" Punctuation can save lives.
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😁😁😂😂😂
dont forget "Laid in America"
Really looking forward to this one....
I just finished watching it, it's actually very good.
I second that, I haven't laughed nor enjoyed myself with a comedy for ages. Not since The Square that is.
Loved this movie! especially with how the Music was edited into it. Only issue was with that minor story with their Favourite teacher.
Great Review
One of the best films of the year
I just finished watching the movie and it was very good.
he explained it wasn't like superbad for girls by saying how it's about enduring friendship and the realtionship between two best friends in high school but isn't that literally superbad
Alex Rothwell yeah it’s the same idea no doubt but it was well written and expressed uniquely.
Think of it like Johnny Cash’s cover song of Hurt, same song but expressed uniquely.
But no doubt it’s this generation’s Superbad
Haha yeah it is, thought the same thing. Think kermode hasn’t seen Superbad recently because it’s a very similar film. Still great fun, highly recommended
Superbad is also about friendship through changes, though.
And also about a 1 night party.
@@austinfull8941 and they're dorks
I've actually seen this since and it's very much a more adorable and less crude/cynical Superbad.
Absolutely amazing film. I think if you're a young American adult (for example I'm 20... a little bit closer to High School) then this movie becomes really relatable and better.
I agree. I watched it last night and I think if you’re of a younger demographic, the humour lands better.
I thought this film was fantastic. The only thing I didn't like about it was Jessica Williams character/storyline NOT Jessica Williams herself because she is awesome. It made me uncomfortable and I didn't think it was necessary.
That storyline was a bit itchy
Yes Mark. Superbad had nothing to do with friendship and sustaining it through change...
Very good as I expected
I enjoyed it. It succeeding in making me nostalgic for my school/university days. And it had a cracking soundtrack.
But I thought it was trying too hard to be cool. Too much time was wasted on slightly loopy dialogue, and not enough on building a story and motivating the characters. You never really felt that anything was at stake and everything resolved itself too easily. So for me, it was only half a movie. And that's why it will never be held in the same regard as Superbad or the great 80's movies which inspired it.
I thought it was great, the only issue I had was that it wasn't particularly funny. There were a few moments, but I think that's what separates it from being class.
I watched purely based on the poster, hate seeing trailers for a film before I watch it
For the entire review I thought Mark was comparing it fondly to Bride Wars and I thought "This is the first sign of the apocalypse."
I liked the film as a drama, and it made me cry rather a lot - but I didn't find it all that funny for some reason. But there was enough other stuff in it that I still enjoyed myself.
I may not think the film is quite as brilliant as some people will have you believe (I found it a little uneven and it indulges is tropes at times) but trust me when I say it’s downright INSPIRED in places. Some of the funniest comedic set pieces I’ve seen in the cinema in recent years carried by two fantastic central performances. You will never be able to listen to “You Oughta Know” in the same way ages. 7.5/10
Really some of the funniest in years? U gotta be joking the jokes were stale AF
Seeing this tomorrow! I can't freaking wait!
Love this movie. We could all do with a Gigi in our lives.
I loved loved loved this film!! Great characters, super funny, great atmosphere and cinematograhy. Much props to Olivia Wilde, she made a wonderful film!!
Saw it yesterday with my girlfriend
Went in with low expectations but really enjoyed it
Great film, packed full of great lines and jokes. Loved it.
I liked this movie, but I thought the first half was way too convoluted, with them trying to find out the address of the party. The movie got ten times more interesting once they got to the main party, I wish they had just gotten there 30 minutes earlier
this movie was amazing!!!!!
Mark says that calling it the female Superbad undercuts it and yet when he talks about what Booksmart really is about he could just as easily be talking about Superbad. Don't mean that to put down Booksmart. Can't wait to see it and if it's half as good as Superbad, which I expect it to be, it'll be one of my favorites of the year.
Mark doesn't like Superbad, seems like mainly because of the tone, but I agree with you that Superbad's great and a positive comparison is definitely a compliment.
Mark says the film han nothing to do with Superbad because it is about friendship. What do you think Superbad is about????
❤️❤️❤️ this movie.
Has Mark seen Superbad? Apparently not.
I have seen Superbad..... 20 times. Its not a rip off. In this movie the side characters have interesting small payoffs, rather than one dimensional throw away characters.
Can't look at her as a character who says she hasn't done anything wrong, when I remember her running the pot growing industry of Kentucky!
Loretta! :)
I know the comparison between this and Superbad seems lazy but its practically the same storyline and definitely drew a lot from the improvisational dialogue style that Superbad did so well. Superbad was groundbreaking in the teen comedy genre - it had heart and genuinely believable characters, which the American Pie sex comedy era failed to achieve. Booksmart was a wonderful film but let's not downplay its clear influences. I do think, however, that "Superbad for girls" is a bad way to describe it. It's not just for girls, obviously many parts will be more relatable to females but this isn't a chick-flick, just like Superbad wasn't "for boys".
I haven’t seen it. Been getting great reviews but the trailers are off putting.
Nah, sorry it was not for me. Always hurts when a comedy you've heard so much about disappoints, and i love coming of age dramas and comedies. There was no time taken to flesh out the characters (maybe the two leads, but not realty anyone else) , scenes that went nowhere and plot points that were unanswered. I just saw a bunch of rich high schoolers being portrayed in a very stereotypical fashion. But maybe its my age, I'm in my 30s and I'm guessing I'm not the target demographic for this one. A miss for me.
Booksmart was way more entertaining than Lady Bird and Eight Grade.
My ranking would be Eighth Grade > Booksmart > Lady Bird. But I feel like Lady Bird is the most popular.
"I thought it was closer to bridesmaids than superbad because it's a movie about friendship"
What do you think Superbad was about? Seriously, there's no better description for this movie than "SUPERBAD but for girls". It's a movie about two highschool friends on a mission to get to a party (just like Superbad) because it's their last night together (just like Superbad), and both want to find someone else in the party (just like Superbad), but deep down both are kind of scared about their friendship being over (just like in Superbad).
Had they said this was Superbad 2 and that Molly was supposed to be Seth's younger sister (just like Beanie Feldstein IS Jonnah Hill's sister in real life) I wouldn't even find it weird.
I saw this movie a few weeks ago It was okay It had a couple of funny moments and some of the dialogue was very well observed. I would rate It (6/10).
I'd compare it more with Blockers than Superbad, Superbad is a better movie than both, but all 3 are good movies.
Why does he take so long to get to the point??? Did you like it or didn't you? Very simple
Yeah, why does he spend so much time critiquing the film?!
The film feels very derivative of Superbad (and this isn’t helped by the fact its lead actress is Jonah Hill’s sister). It’s also nowhere near as funny as Superbad (as many as half the jokes fell flat in the packed cinema I saw it in) though to my mind, its more emotional and dramatic scenes work better than Superbad’s.
I would recommend it to fans of the coming-of-age genre, but I certainly wouldn’t describe it as a must-see, unlike Lady Bird. Overall, it’s a sound addition to the genre, though it’s been heavily overpraised by critics. 6.5/10.
Agree 100%!! I actually hated this movie. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
The only thing this film has to do with Superbad is that’s it’s super bad. Over forced humour that isn’t very funny. I turned it off after an hour.
Movie was funny, and good where it needed to be, YET. Gender Neutral/Feminist/White male hating/PC culture bullshit was mind numbing, and forced down the throats of the audience. The movies portrayal of high school was riddled with cliches, and felt like a fantasy world. So many shots in this movie consisted of loud, hipster music played over someone doing something in slow motion. 5/10 at best, want a movie to be loved by the masses? Don't force your emotional driven political standards on others
But we should force religion onto our secular government?
The first half of the movie is painfully unfunny. The second half turns into a by-the-numbers teen drama which is just fine. 5/10
Booksmart is absolutely wonderful. Could everyone please stop mentioning Superbad? Not just in a lazy, inaccurate comparison with Booksmart, but stop mentioning it in general. It's awful. Booksmart is not derivative. It's unique. There's no other movie like this, but I really hope that in the next few years there will be.
I actually kinda liked Superbad because the relationships seemed genuine.
Booksmart seemed pretty fake. Me and the people I was with walked out after an hour. No one in our theater laughed.
@@kullerva5738 super bad filled with swearing so gets boring
The agenda was too prominently placed on its sleeve for me.
Sorry, that clip is not funny, no one talks like that
Lmao this movie doesn’t even hold a candle to super bad nor is it even like super bad and the jokes aren’t even funny
Booksmart is a terrible movie.
This is a terrible movie. Bizarre that critics like it but these days if a critic likes a movie it's generally overrated garbage.
Its painful seeing you read your que cards. Like you are doing it for the views on TH-cam rather than your ACTUAL opinion
You say that as if it's not possible to genuinely enjoy the film?
People can have a contrasting opinion to you about the film and still be valid in their reasoning.