The movie is actually a tragedy about some really sad people whose lives still revolve around their high school years, when they peaked. And Stephanie.
@@TheMissileHappy duuuude I think about that a lot with movies and TV shows like this, like time just passed but nothing changed? Is that really something to strive for? I know people in my life too who just have the same life in the same town just with time passed by now. Depressing
@@youtopia2621 Or, you know, they're perfectly happy and content living that life. Absolutely nothing sad about that. Being stuck in your high school years is, though. But getting a job you like and settling down right where you were, is great if that's what you want.
My biggest Hate on this movie: Tiffany not getting JAIL TIME?? She nearly murdered someone with FULL intention and she lost 20 years of her life? Nobody cares? She should be in jail.
Tiffany and the two goons that pushed the male cheerleader should be in prison. The Male cheerleader didn't call them out for pushing him, no one else in the whole pep rally saw them push him, no angle of any video shows them pushing him. If they were never gonna circle back to the fact it wasn't an accident then it just should've been an accident. An accident of Stephanies own hubris or superficial tunnel vision which leads to some life lesson.
the fact that there was 100 witnesses to her intentionally pushing the cheerleaders out of the way is baffling 💀 like she had no consequences to her actions and she’s living with no remorse for 20 years even when stephanie wakes up she does not feel bad. stephanie should have SUED her ass to the ground and get that house.
What annoyed me about this movie the most is how they kept blaming her for not changing during all those years. Ofc she didn't change, she was in a coma. When was this personal development suppose to happen? Ofc she is immature for her age. Her brain is a child. Also that no one got in trouble for the attempted murder on her.
Exactly!!! especially the scene at the prom when Seth catch her with Blaine and blame her for not changing at all. Like how she suppose to change. She is in Coma, for her it was like only 10 min nap.
Even in the movie they said senior year was only a month left. So the movie gave us a time frame. This was a month. What growth was she suppose to have in a month?
My biggest pet peeve with this movie was when Tiffany finally apologized to Stephanie but didn’t actually come out and say “I’m the reason you were in a coma for 20 years” and its just never addressed again? And Stephanie just accepts the apology anyway?
Right? This part bugged me so much like she didn’t get into any trouble at all i was watching the movie on edge wondering when they were going to address it
To be honest, at least in real life, nobody that planned this against someone. Might be brave enough to confess it especially for the reaction that might come afterwards from the victim and the legal stuff and such.
This film should have included a subplot where Rebel's character sues Tiffany for medical costs and pushes charges for criminal liability. 1. That's how you get the house back. 2. If she wins in court, she could achieve fame, which--lets face it--is how adults become famous and well known or popular post highschool. 3. The money and fame might draw the eye of a new man.
tiffany fully attempted murder and now she has "the perfect life", also kudos to stephanie for knowing how to walk, talk, use the bathroom and not having any sort of trauma from all that.
Forget stealing her "perfect life", the mom mean girl was directly responsible for the main character spending 20 years in a coma, which she did while in full view of a lot of people, which also could have ended with her dying and somehow didn't face any legal repercusions whatsoever?
Yeah, this movie was just so creepy to me, I don't like the message it gives people... that if you have a rival you can just almost literally kill them to steal their life you were envious or jealous about? And everything will be fine... what the f. It was a funny movie at times but also just very cringy & unbelievable.
I enjoyed the movie, but I had an issue with a few things. I didn't care for the romance between her and her bf (keep in mind that she's still mentally 17). And it was annoying that her friends kept telling her to grow up. The woman was in a coma for twenty years how is she supposed to act without therapy to process the trauma she went through? It's also odd that the people who caused her accident weren't held accountable.
She's not still mentally 17, she's just an idiot. While she admittedly lacks life experiences, the doctors mention that she's perfectly fine to return to the world and she suffered no development issues, meaning her brain grew naturally despite the coma.
I totally agree. Additionally I don't like how they displayed her about being completely about herself and in her own world in terms of her popularity. Was her persona false due to her being popular? Yes. But when it came down to it did she try to take her friends with her? Yes. She found a way to include Martha on the cheer squad and she always drove to school with Seth every morning. She made sure both were invited to her party and that they would be in the vip section. Am I suppose to be mad at her because Martha didn't feel comfortable to admit she was gay and Seth couldn't admit his crush? Not really. Because the part I did see with her as a 17 year old, she really did care about her friends
My biggest problem with the film was also the romance aspect of it. I've liked Sam Richardson as the romantic lead in other media, but my gosh did this give the creeps. The movie makes it explicitly clear that Rebel's character is 17 mentally. In fact Sam's character talks about the fact that she's 17 and how he recognises she's playing teenage tricks on him but he's an adult and can recognise it! WTF! Also the scene where he thinks he's being cheated on, but it should've been entirely obvious that her ex's attention was unwanted. She was clearly saying no and pushing him away?!?
Thank you! For her, she was her 17 year old self just a few weeks ago. I don't know what these people expected. Did they think she was instantly going to become more mature in a few weeks? Her friends telling her to grow up was so insensitive and unfair when they themselves got to grow in a normal and slow way while she went from 17 to 37 in what was basically minutes to her. Honestly, she turned out really well considering the fact that she didn't even seek therapy. She even forgave the girl who caused her to fall into a coma. The only terrible thing she did was have that party at her friend's lake house with a bunch of teenagers. Then her friends get mad at her because she "pushed them aside" even though she drove one friend to school every day even while she was popular and stood up for her other friend when she was getting picked on by the other cheerleaders, both on the same day that she went into a coma. And they get all shocked when she still thinks like a 17 year old and have basically no sympathy for her whatsoever. Terrible friends. I know it's just supposed to be a silly movie, but I think that the movie kind of treated our protagonist in a weird way. Then she gets hit on by TWO almost forty something year old men while STILL being mentally 17. She shouldn't have had a love interest at all.
Yeah she was a pretty nice popular girl, which I found refreshing. She still included her old friends and even defended Martha against Tiffany in the past. I don't get Martha issues at times
As someone who was in a coma for 4 days and couldn’t even lift a notebook that wasn’t even full and had a lot of pages taken out, this is definitely very realistic. After 20 years you can definitely do all the things she did.
did the mean girl get her friends to literallt push the guy who was gonna catch her and then the movie just…went no where with that plot? like the mean girl should be arrested for attempted murder
Legit and the mean girl learnt her lesson because her daughter blocked her on Instagram feels weird and her husband cheating storyline why was he painted in a good light at the endddd???
@@bigjbird4427 also it was really weird the movie had a chance for a guy friend to walk in on a girl getting low-key assaulted and have him be like nooo i’m here for you but instead he storms off and she’s like it’s not what it looks like…like what.
That's the thing that bothered me the most. Like... She literally got two girls to help her attempt to murder someone and NOBODY cares. Not even Stephanie. Like... Tf???
most likely won the case against tiffany’s parents years ago and used that money to keep rebel’s character alive. kind of reason why they have her dream house bc their parents got it as their wedding gift
there’s no way you’d be in a coma for 20 years and wake up *heavier* than when you went into one. I lost 30 lbs when I was stuck in the hospital for a month lol.
my biggest issues with this movie: - tiffany not getting jail time after intentionally injuring a person leading to comatose. - stephanie being able to do stuff after sleeping for 20 years. - stephanie being okay after waking up. like, correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t there supposed to be follow-up check ups on stephanie?? ik this movie was supposed to be focused on steph catching up on her senior year, but still.
i had all these issues plus how she was mentally 17 yet dating 37 year olds? i know bodily she's 37 but there's a big point of her being mentally 17 these actual mental and physical adults shouldn't want to date her ??
I liked the movie but I’m surprised they didn’t want to throw even a little trauma or side effects in there… like even at the end they couldn’t have Rebel be a little scared to do the cheer flip that put her in a 20 year coma??
She's a 40 year old woman who woke up from a coma that decided rather than move on with her life she needed to be a teenager again and go back to high school. That's a huge trauma response.
"Then you hit your thirties and you sprain your shoulder by sleeping wrong." Ouch. Too real, man. I've spent the last two days with shoulder pain that I just woke up with for no reason.
exactly. The thing is that Rebel plays Rebel. She doesn't even try to play someone else. In literally every movie she is the same, same vulgar humour, same jokes, same faces etc. And the girl that plays young Stephanie just didn't learn her way.
She acts the same, at first I thought the same as you, but it's that when we see a grown ass adult acting like that we find too childish while when we see the same behavior on a teen it looks more "natural"
The only iconic part of this film is how Alicia Silverstone plays the dream woman Stephanie idolizes and in an odd way sort of easter eggs Clueless and the popularity there, it was the perfect cast decision
Tbh, the idea of a former-teen waking up from a long coma to find the world had moved on, mourning the years they lost, feeling out of place with their older and weaker (from atrophy) body as they go through physical therapy, seeing how their former classmates had matured and became adults and no longer cared about highschool as much as they did, feeling awkward and disconnected from their friends who had grown up, learning to reconnect with them, growing as a person as they adapt in this new world and accept it and themselves, sounds really good and I would watch that. If written well, that is.
So, not only does Rebel have perfect hair and makeup after getting out of a 20 year coma, but she's apparently not traumatised enough to need therapy?!
@@nherty6172 I mean pretty much. it's not supposed to be serious and realistic and get into deeper things like attempted murder so obviously they just want to keep it light, wholesome(ish) and overall goofy
@@nherty6172 In reality attempted murder is not a thing if you're 1) a popular teenager 2) it can be spun as an accident Kids at least back in the time period she was hurt in the movie got away with behavior that would see grown adults facing prison time by handwaving it away as the normal behavior of children.
This is exactly what I was saying in my post, the joke just fell flat. Ofcourse everybody doesn't want turtles to choke on straws, that's beside the point. The point is: this was a complete nonsense initiative to reduce the usage of plastic straws and making fun of it requires a bit of sophistication and thought, just like this initiative required a bit more sophistication and thought. The reduction of plastic straws in the ocean requires a global initiative, As people in China and Indonesia are responsible for polluting the vast majority of the ocean's plastic, while the EU and US are responsible for a fraction of that. Meanwhile we are the only ones that actually seem to care about it. Similary, the Hollywood mentality that is responsible for all the woke ideas oozing from nearly every show and film, completely falls flat when they try to make a joke about woke ideas. Yes, the joke is about something else than plastic straws ... but the delivery is so basic and so besides the point, that is simply doesn't work. This self critical stuff needs to be genuine and this clearly is not.
The movie is pretty dumb sometimes but it’s clearly shown that Bri doesn’t like what her mother is doing and wants to be a better person than her by giving up prom queen.
I got the impression that she did it to stick it to her mom (which she hates) and just happend to end up liking our mc Also didnt get the Mean influencer vip from her she seemed to acually care about All that stuff and her mom just took advantage of it and her which is why she doesnt like her
Exactly im not gonna say this movie was perfect but the teenage characters were actually portrayed well. Like at first it looked like it was gonna be making fun of teen for today but I they felt a lot more real as the movie went on. And we actively see Bri slowly turning away from becoming her mother
And if she was a senior in 2002, it means she was born in 1984. So she was too young to watch but probably still knew about it. Mr T was also still a well known public figure into the 90s and even 2000s. She definitely would have grown up knowing him. The reference tracks.
I think it would have been better as a dark comedy like heathers or jawbreaker or even a horror film where Stephanie gets revenge on Tiffany for trying to kill her.
I think it would've been a funny plot device/premise if all the current students were so busy and involved with their phones that they were too preoccupied to notice how old she was until they actually talked to her.
Girl tries to murder a girl and even after the girl recovers she just tries to ignore her and keep being with a guy she must have gaslighted into being with her after you know almost murdering his girlfriend
Is it just me or did this movie feel like a parody of the teen movie tropes, it felt like they knew it was going to be ridiculous and filled with plot holes so they just played into them rather than trying to seriously do the tropes? To me it was quite self aware but that’s just me
Exactly!! I loved that the movie was so self aware in that sense and I laughed our loud in those intense scenes where tiffany and steph confront each other and rival music plays in the background 🤣 it's clearly a parody of those mean girl enemy tropes
That's how I interpreted the movie too. I enjoyed it a lot from start to end and I'm quite shocked to learn that so many people hate this movie apparently and wanted the movie to head in a dramatic and tragedy direction.
@@mac9733 lol its not a masterpiece or anything but I was really shocked while checking the comments bc people didn't really catch the satirical aspect of it, treating if it were a normal serious highschool romcom ..
This is what i call "Aggressively Mediocre," a story that has elements with potential, but it railroads itself into the most average development possible
definitely, it could have played out amazingly but they didn't venture beyond shallow points and mediocre acting. this has potential and they wasted it
Aggressively garbage more like.. jesus this is the epitome of what movies should NOT be.. hell as soon as I saw the 30yr old looking abercrombe highschool bf with the 15yr old looking prom queen I threw up in my mouth &said nope. I'm good .
I think the most unrealistic/best part of this whole movie is the fact that someone fell into a coma at 17, and wakes up 20 years later and somehow does not freak the fuck out. I can't be the only one who would panic like crazy after losing two decades of my life. Not even to mention questioning myself "Do I have brain damage? Will my memory continue to function normally?" Nah, lets be prom queen.
she was a loser BEFORE being a cheerleader , bcs she was an australian that didn't fit in america. once she became a cheerleader she was no longer a loser
I am blonde, have an accent and was a cheerleader and yet I was still a loser because people can be bullies to anybody. Some "popular" people are mostly the opposite of what movies and TV shows will tell you.
I think Bri's character arc was finally getting out from under her overbearing and evil mom. I don't think Bri was ever the bully and her mom was the one pushing her. On prom night she finally decides to stop letting her mom control her so that Bri can become the person she actually wants to be which isn't prom queen.
I think at Bri's intro when she took the selfie with Steph..theyre trying to get viewers to think..the popular girls are your typical mean girls you see in other movies but this school..under Martha's control and influence..has made mean bullys out of fashion...so bri being the popular girl believes in inclusiveness and very environmentally aware..thats the new norm
Honestly i don't even think it's that deep. Her mom is making her do something she doesn't want to (be prom queen) so she intentionally fucked it up to get back at her. That's very in-character for a teenager.
i’m going into my senior year of high school, this isn’t what schools in the post-pandemic world are like. at all. there’s still a social hierarchy, popularity is still a thing even though it looks different than it used to and there are more ways to achieve it, people don’t constantly talk about turtles dying (and the ones who do are generally perceived as annoying) cheerleaders still wear short skirts (and i’ve never seen a guy wear a skirt to school lmao), and that outfit she wore to her first day would absolutely be considered cool, i honestly dress like that all the time.
I’m having conflicted thoughts in regards to this whole movie. It’s not a comedic masterpiece or anything like that, but I guess it’s still somewhat weirdly enjoyable and interesting to watch. Also, can we talk about Angourie Rice for a quick sec? I feel like she’s perfectly casted as Rebel’s younger counterpart. Change my mind if you will, but the resemblance between them is so striking that it’s somewhat unbelievable that they’re not actually related in real life. This is probably Rebel’s most mediocre performance in a feature length movie, but the again, there’s always room for improvement, so I’m not really complaining. Rebel in Pitch Perfect may be the absolute best in my own humble opinion. I’m sounding way too biased, but I still have to mention it. Also, the movie’s concept definitely has a lot of potential. It’s taking references from 90s and 2000s comedy teen flicks, but this one in particular didn’t deliver to its utmost capacity. Some scenes in this even felt out of place and bland so to speak. There wasn’t enough cheer scenes. Also the other characters weren’t exactly fleshed out. We didn’t get to know much about their backgrounds and/or upbringings. Apologies for the very long rant sort of thing.
100% agree with this take. It felt like a speedrun between the characters. The concept is there but you need to create deeper relationships or else these characters are barely a step above extras.
Yeah it was enjoyable especially seeing the 2000s highschool and the 2020s highschool, both are so different, has their own goods and bad and I wish we could just create a healthy balance
She wasnt really the main character in the other movies?? So I wouldnt really say she did better, just the movie was better as a whole for pitch perfect.
The whole time I'm just here wondering how Tiffany wasn't arrested, sued, or paying for the hospital bill for the girl who she literally put in a coma. You don't put someone in a coma and just continue living your life without worry!
her dad probably did sue her or more likely her parents, since he had to pay and provide for her hospital expenses, IN AMERICA. and didn’t tiff got her dream house as a wedding gift? so yeah that’s my theory-ish
I feel like a reason this movie probably worked for you and others is because Rebel's very good at getting across the absurdity of these kinds of movie's plots through her acting; not just verbally, but also through body language as well. She can give off a genuine 'don't care/unfazed by cringey-ness' of her characters typically very embarrassing actions from the audiences stand point. It's something I rather admire about her and other actor's capability to do this, as I personally get secondhand embarrassment from just watching it on screen. >_
Makes me willing to watch it. We found out one of our classmates was a 30 year old woman that used the fact it was hard to visually pin down her age and dressing young to go from school to school every 4 years and relive her high school experience. She would just show up in an area as a runaway from horrible parents get put into social services and then enrolled in school. Since then any time that plot point is in a show or movie it gives me shivers.
Well put. I thought the movie was technically bad, but Rebel Wilson brought the charm that made it enjoyable to watch. I've never been a huge fan of her, so I was pleasantly surprised by how well she was able to carry the movie on her back.
I think rebel is very good at making vomit inducing scripts and writing actually funny and bearable, with the intended amount of cringe. I like rebel, she’s cool :D
Imagine if she woke up after that coma and was like "I'm 37? Not again!" and it's never explained what she means by that throughout the rest of the film.
Would be funny if in the background a look alike of the Main character of 17 again for now reason he's just their having his own mini plot back their haha
Wait so this is set in America but the Dad doesn't sue or anything over the insane medical costs that would come from a multi-decade coma? No one did anything about the girl who caused another students coma? Hell, once she went into the coma HER BOYFRIEND MARRIED THE WOMAN WHO CAUSED IT Holy shit, the therapy I would need...
Yeah at the beginning I genuinely was enjoying it till I quickly realized that it was just gonna be another teen romcom plot except with an old lady instead of a nerdy one with glasses
literally confused because didn't everyone see Tiffany push the other cheerleaders out of the way? wouldn't they hold her accountable?? why didn't Tiffany go to jail? I would NOT get back with someone who put my girlfriend in a coma??
Something that annoys me a lot is that Tiffany literally put Stephanie in a coma. For 20 years. And she did it in a highly public place where there was a bunch of witnesses to see. But she got NO punishment? 😟
I was hesitant to watch this movie. It's good that the other students know about her situation that makes it a LOT less creepy. In my high school we had this not super attractive 15 year old girl show up. Turned out after being a classmate and dating another classmate of ours that she was actually a 30 something year old woman who would use the fact it was hard to define her age to "runaway" every four years and go to high school as a 15 year old. Ours was the last school before she hit before getting busted.
Did nobody mention that this is inspired by a true story? There was a cheerleader that ended up in a coma and woke up 20 years later. But she mentioned that when she was in the coma, she was aware of things happening around her. When she awoken, she knew about 9/11 because she remembered being told about it while in her coma.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Movies like "Tall Girl" don't seem to understand that a 16/17 year old is at or nearly full grown. There would be plenty of guys as tall or taller than her. My son's 14 and over 6ft. and he's not the only one of his friends that tall. It probably comes from Hollywood always casting short adult actors as teenagers by using height to infer the authority dynamic with adult characters.
I would say they cast ‘young looking’ adults as opposed to short adults. There are many movies where adults and teens are the same exact height, but actually-an-adult actor is just baby faced. And often way-tooo-old boys are cast as the high school heartthrob to like a 17 year old actress. But Tall Girl absolutely went out of its way to lean the majority of the casting shorter then the lead character in order to emphasize the characters height. But the funny thing is in the second movie she seems to just be around handsome ‘tall’ (as her) guys in school all of a sudden without having to ship a height-appropriate guy from overseas. Were they all just in drama club and she couldn’t find them?
@@themarsman5155 that’s not true, 16-18 year olds, a LOT of them do in fact look like they are in their mid 20s. As someone that was a junior high teacher, I had students that out in public I would think they were 17-18, so imagine how old they would look at 17 or 18…
this movie is actually kind of depressing when you really think deeply on it. she lost her “prime” years according to most adults over something as stupid as her boyfriend/cheer captain. something that literally is not serious when you’re out of high school. and to add insult to injury the people who engaged in the actions weren’t caught or arrested for attempted murder?
Wanted to write this. Like... if you think about it, suddenly losing all your remaining teenage years, the years when you develop your career or creating your family and then your 30s is really sad.
I think the reason I liked senior year compared to the other teen movies is bc the main character actually faces real struggles instead of being too tall. She lost 20 years of her life but still manages to thrive.
I get why bri had her change of heart. she wanted to fuck over her mom, who is very controlling. She's rebelling and asserting her independence. That she looks good and kind in the process is a bonus.
The way Hollywood casts 20 and 30-year-olds as teenagers, Rebel's character in HS is "believable". Remember what the Riverdale characters looked like when they were still in high school?
I keep seeing people say “why didn’t Tiffany get jail time?” Because everyone thought it was an ACCIDENT lmao. No one knew Tiffany intended to hurt steph.
The kids she pushed are literally witnesses to the crime they can't think it's an accident. It's def a plot hole lol this whole movie is a plot hole though
it was in front of a whole pep rally tho, you’re telling me that NONE of those people evidently SAW them push the person that was supposed to catch her?… right right
I was expecting to hear that Stephanie started to date the most popular guy in the high school and pleasantly surprised and relieved that the minor dating someone old enough to be their parent thing wasn’t done because that type of relationship is always so icky. Stephanie was at least smart enough to just want to focus on school and cheering and not the literal boys that also attend the high school.
To all the people saying ''this is not how teenagers are'' yeah, that's the point, it was absurd wacky and enjoyable, and as someone whose senior year is also 2022 I loved it. It didn't take itself seriously and all the references and actors did amazingly great, had a great time
At least in erased they portrayed it a lot more realistic, but I know I’m going to get one of her fans defending the movie by calling it irony even though it’s just lazy writing 🤪
@@sydneycho7290 It literally is irony tho. I'm not a "crazy fan" but just annoyed by all you ppl who try to sound smart by criticizing a comedy movie with fucking Rebel Wilson in it. This movie doesn't even have "crazy fans" bc it's just a funny little movie you watch once and then forget. You also compared it to smth that wasn't supposed to be a comedy so ofc that one's gonna look more realistic in comparison. It's really weird and kinda pathetic how you call anyone who doesn't agree with you on a forgettable movie a "crazy fan". You're fucking miserable lmao. All you middle aged women in comment section always have the worst takes and weirdest behaviours... Get a fucking life girl
Kinda hate how this movie portrays Rebels character living in a BEAUTIFUL and rather large craftsman style historic home with a ton of character which probably costs like 500-600K today as a "shanty" for the poors. LOL
okay but I kinda liked this movie. I thought it was stupidly funny in some ways and the storyline was kinda interesting if you look at a further depth into Stephanie’s character
this movie was perfect, like a love letter to 90s and 2000s kids. the one thing that bothered me was how Tiffany didn't get arrested for trying to kill Stephanie.
I felt the same. I saw some love for it on Twitter too so I was surprised at the hate it's getting here lmao. maybe in the future this will be looked at differently
The DUFF was actually the only good one he produced and better than the other movies he did despite trying kinda hard to be funny but I actually liked it and the actors did a good job at not making it that cringe
@@heartsteme8329 With that logic even 'Home Alone' is a traumatic movie like bro do not have anything else to do than just say how a silly movie caused thousands of ppl trauma, ppl really be having too much time
My issue with this movie is I actually really liked the way Angourie played Stephanie and then Rebel's version was pretty different (which is odd, cos I also felt like Angourie portrayed Rebel's mannerisms etc well) and because I enjoyed Angourie's version so much I spent the whole movie not enjoying Rebel's version.
Honestly I gotta say how much of a psychopath do you gotta be to let someone fall from that height, and almost literally killing them. And even if she didn’t kill the blond girl, a fall like that could have seriously broken her back and cause paralysis so that she couldn’t walk ever again. This movie is a lot more messed up then I realized.
Netflix has a strange pattern of ruining thought-provoking concepts with forced humor and surface level character development. I wish they would fully commit to these projects.
Actually I saw a lot of criticism around this movie, but to be honest i really enjoyed it. You can't watch it with the mindset that you are going to watch a good deep meaningful movie. Just a chill comedy to enjoy with friends. There have been a LOT of movies trying to work with this "Mean Girls" theme, but it mostly ends up being really cringe. I feel like senior year doesn't take itself so seriously and Rebel Wilson is actually really good in my opinion :)
This isn't a Mean girls thingy...this is another flip remake. Seriously? Has nobody seen Kickin' it old skool? This guy was in a breakdance competition with his buddies ( all 12yo) in the 80's, the main character pulls a dangerous stunt and falls, gets hurt, falls into a 20 year coma, which is adressed more at length, then something triggers his waking up, they take him home and he has to work to get his strength back, etc. etc... The stuff there is funnier, they do all kinds of stupid stuff too, because... well it's a comedy... but the bully gets his scoop of karma and it's somehow more rewarding than in this one.
I love those kind of movies when they are well done but I found this one boring and full of 2010's clichés! Felt like it was written by adults (well I know it was but..."huuh teens and their phones and social media...") The acting was kinda bad too.
I honestly love this movie! I don't care how inaccurate and unrealistic it is! Lol. To be honest, I was an awkward, unpopular kid. I did not like school. The only things that I like are watching cheer dancing and drawing my art for the teachers. I enjoyed getting compliments from teachers on my writing and singing. Yeah, that's it. I was bullied a lot but I did enjoy watching the dance numbers of the popular kids because they're talented.
No it's not considering the fact Tiffany never faced Jail time for attempted Murder, and Steph wasn't exactly traumatized by the fact that 20 years of her life is gone and all she can focus about was one thing?
She was close to unrecognizable in this. Apart from her physical transformation, I was wondering when I was going to see some of her... better physical comedy talents? I don't find her particularly funny as it is, but it's usually not this bad. It's probably from over doing the hyper happy character.
My question is why she thought there would be no changes to her school. I left my former school for like, a year, and they did countless renovations and swapped up countless rooms and concepts to the point it felt completely unfamiliar aside from some random corners.
As someone currently going to highschool, the whole "being popular" thing is strange. Usually these days, the "nerds" are the ones people wanna hang out with
Eh, I graduated about 3 years ago and from what I remember the “popular” kids were either really good at sports, were in ASB, or had money or something. Granted, most popular kids were genuinely nice people with friends in all places
17:05 that was my reaction as well, it’s such a bizarre experience. Adults who fetishize their own highschool experience should not be in charge of writing movies about highschool. Can we actually have people who went to highschool post 2010 be involved in writing about their own experience? Any time people try to write a movie about highschool it miserably misrepresents the modern experience. Watching a movie and hearing a girl scream “OMG-OMGMFOAGE!!!!” Isn’t a thing anyone genuinely experiences it, and all it does is perpetuate the stereotype that teenage girls are stupid, and anything they are into must be inherently stupid.
You're right it doesn't take itself too seriously. I also appreciated the moments the main character had with her mom and when her dad said that great thing about the people who love you the most. That was sweet.
I enjoyed the movie. She was given a second chance to relive high school and when you are older you get very nostalgic and that is where the movie hit me.
You know, I actually liked this movie. It didn't feel like it took itself too seriously, and I like that the mean girl trope was more because of the mom pushing what she wants onto her daughter- I understand that issue and how much strife it can cause. I also just genuinely laughed out loud at multiple points, and Lance was genuinely funny to me (plus I just enjoyed the fact that he was more of a feminine person but it didn't define his sexuality or identity, it was a nice reminder for me as a trans person who is working on understanding that better in relation to myself.)
Me too lls I couldn’t believe the reviews! I’ve been telling everyone to watch it with a beer or glass of wine and relax with it lmfao it’s hilarious to me
The movie is actually a tragedy about some really sad people whose lives still revolve around their high school years, when they peaked. And Stephanie.
😂😂😂 awesome I'll watch this later.
My thoughts exactly, I would be highly depressed if I were still living in a town with all my high school classmates.
@@TheMissileHappy duuuude I think about that a lot with movies and TV shows like this, like time just passed but nothing changed? Is that really something to strive for? I know people in my life too who just have the same life in the same town just with time passed by now. Depressing
@@youtopia2621 Or, you know, they're perfectly happy and content living that life. Absolutely nothing sad about that. Being stuck in your high school years is, though. But getting a job you like and settling down right where you were, is great if that's what you want.
i think it's cool they show steph's idol finally moves on with her life too
My biggest Hate on this movie:
Tiffany not getting JAIL TIME?? She nearly murdered someone with FULL intention and she lost 20 years of her life? Nobody cares?
She should be in jail.
My exact thoughts when I was watching this movie
Now that I remember yeah if it was irl she would get jail time for almost murdering someone and giving them a 20 year coma
Tiffany and the two goons that pushed the male cheerleader should be in prison. The Male cheerleader didn't call them out for pushing him, no one else in the whole pep rally saw them push him, no angle of any video shows them pushing him. If they were never gonna circle back to the fact it wasn't an accident then it just should've been an accident. An accident of Stephanies own hubris or superficial tunnel vision which leads to some life lesson.
the fact that there was 100 witnesses to her intentionally pushing the cheerleaders out of the way is baffling 💀 like she had no consequences to her actions and she’s living with no remorse for 20 years even when stephanie wakes up she does not feel bad. stephanie should have SUED her ass to the ground and get that house.
Just bad writing in a nutshell
What annoyed me about this movie the most is how they kept blaming her for not changing during all those years. Ofc she didn't change, she was in a coma. When was this personal development suppose to happen? Ofc she is immature for her age. Her brain is a child. Also that no one got in trouble for the attempted murder on her.
Exactly!!! especially the scene at the prom when Seth catch her with Blaine and blame her for not changing at all. Like how she suppose to change. She is in Coma, for her it was like only 10 min nap.
Even in the movie they said senior year was only a month left. So the movie gave us a time frame. This was a month. What growth was she suppose to have in a month?
My biggest pet peeve with this movie was when Tiffany finally apologized to Stephanie but didn’t actually come out and say “I’m the reason you were in a coma for 20 years” and its just never addressed again? And Stephanie just accepts the apology anyway?
I think it's the case that she doesn’t remember the accident, so the writers probably thought they shouldn't adress it?
Right? This part bugged me so much like she didn’t get into any trouble at all i was watching the movie on edge wondering when they were going to address it
Yesss I was expecting the climax to be something involving how she was the reason Stephanie was robbed of her life over petty drama
OMG I FORGOT ABOUT THAT
To be honest, at least in real life, nobody that planned this against someone. Might be brave enough to confess it especially for the reaction that might come afterwards from the victim and the legal stuff and such.
This film should have included a subplot where Rebel's character sues Tiffany for medical costs and pushes charges for criminal liability. 1. That's how you get the house back. 2. If she wins in court, she could achieve fame, which--lets face it--is how adults become famous and well known or popular post highschool. 3. The money and fame might draw the eye of a new man.
Subplot? Or SEQUEL?! Netflix all about them sequels
omg that would make so much sense - big brain moment
This would be so much more of an interesting movie... more like mean girls where it's a revenge plot but more complicated
literally confused because didn't everyone see Tiffany push the other cheerleaders out of the way? wouldn't they hold her accountable??
@@fakeaubrii You would think so, but that didn't seem to happen in this film.
tiffany fully attempted murder and now she has "the perfect life", also kudos to stephanie for knowing how to walk, talk, use the bathroom and not having any sort of trauma from all that.
it’s a comedy not a true crime story.
@@khamariaj there are more comments pointing how a fake movie is not like real life, go comment on them too lol
its a fucking comedy chill this isnt a drama movie
@@abbycrabbyy are you commenting this on every comment that points out how fake a movie is? Because you should, people might not know
@@TereAdasme no one needs to comment on all of them
Forget stealing her "perfect life", the mom mean girl was directly responsible for the main character spending 20 years in a coma, which she did while in full view of a lot of people, which also could have ended with her dying and somehow didn't face any legal repercusions whatsoever?
Honestly, 20 years in a coma sounds like a good reason to have someone show up in pieces scattered around town.
plothole
Technically, it was the twins seen pushing the guy back. They would have been charged with endangerment, attempted manslaughter,... something.
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Yeah, this movie was just so creepy to me, I don't like the message it gives people... that if you have a rival you can just almost literally kill them to steal their life you were envious or jealous about? And everything will be fine... what the f.
It was a funny movie at times but also just very cringy & unbelievable.
I enjoyed the movie, but I had an issue with a few things. I didn't care for the romance between her and her bf (keep in mind that she's still mentally 17). And it was annoying that her friends kept telling her to grow up. The woman was in a coma for twenty years how is she supposed to act without therapy to process the trauma she went through? It's also odd that the people who caused her accident weren't held accountable.
She's not still mentally 17, she's just an idiot. While she admittedly lacks life experiences, the doctors mention that she's perfectly fine to return to the world and she suffered no development issues, meaning her brain grew naturally despite the coma.
I totally agree. Additionally I don't like how they displayed her about being completely about herself and in her own world in terms of her popularity.
Was her persona false due to her being popular? Yes. But when it came down to it did she try to take her friends with her? Yes. She found a way to include Martha on the cheer squad and she always drove to school with Seth every morning. She made sure both were invited to her party and that they would be in the vip section. Am I suppose to be mad at her because Martha didn't feel comfortable to admit she was gay and Seth couldn't admit his crush? Not really. Because the part I did see with her as a 17 year old, she really did care about her friends
My biggest problem with the film was also the romance aspect of it. I've liked Sam Richardson as the romantic lead in other media, but my gosh did this give the creeps. The movie makes it explicitly clear that Rebel's character is 17 mentally. In fact Sam's character talks about the fact that she's 17 and how he recognises she's playing teenage tricks on him but he's an adult and can recognise it! WTF! Also the scene where he thinks he's being cheated on, but it should've been entirely obvious that her ex's attention was unwanted. She was clearly saying no and pushing him away?!?
Thank you! For her, she was her 17 year old self just a few weeks ago. I don't know what these people expected. Did they think she was instantly going to become more mature in a few weeks? Her friends telling her to grow up was so insensitive and unfair when they themselves got to grow in a normal and slow way while she went from 17 to 37 in what was basically minutes to her.
Honestly, she turned out really well considering the fact that she didn't even seek therapy. She even forgave the girl who caused her to fall into a coma. The only terrible thing she did was have that party at her friend's lake house with a bunch of teenagers.
Then her friends get mad at her because she "pushed them aside" even though she drove one friend to school every day even while she was popular and stood up for her other friend when she was getting picked on by the other cheerleaders, both on the same day that she went into a coma. And they get all shocked when she still thinks like a 17 year old and have basically no sympathy for her whatsoever. Terrible friends.
I know it's just supposed to be a silly movie, but I think that the movie kind of treated our protagonist in a weird way.
Then she gets hit on by TWO almost forty something year old men while STILL being mentally 17. She shouldn't have had a love interest at all.
Yeah she was a pretty nice popular girl, which I found refreshing. She still included her old friends and even defended Martha against Tiffany in the past. I don't get Martha issues at times
As someone who was in a coma for 4 days and couldn’t even lift a notebook that wasn’t even full and had a lot of pages taken out, this is definitely very realistic. After 20 years you can definitely do all the things she did.
bro my dumb ass had to read this 3 times to pick up on the sarcasm im an idiot 😭😭
@@lermajermsSAME
@@beetlejuiceisthebest3 just saw this reply and read the original comment again and my god is this sentence worded weird
@@lermajerms lol
did the mean girl get her friends to literallt push the guy who was gonna catch her and then the movie just…went no where with that plot? like the mean girl should be arrested for attempted murder
Legit and the mean girl learnt her lesson because her daughter blocked her on Instagram feels weird and her husband cheating storyline why was he painted in a good light at the endddd???
@@bigjbird4427 also it was really weird the movie had a chance for a guy friend to walk in on a girl getting low-key assaulted and have him be like nooo i’m here for you but instead he storms off and she’s like it’s not what it looks like…like what.
Given the hospital bills a two decade coma will rack up, ambulance chasers would've been falling over themselves to sue her family into the ground
@@ghostoyster And they still end up together after he ditches her when they other guy attacks her.
That's the thing that bothered me the most. Like... She literally got two girls to help her attempt to murder someone and NOBODY cares. Not even Stephanie. Like... Tf???
The biggest Question I have after watching this; How tf did her parents afford to keep her on life support for 20 years?! In the USA?!?!?!
Thats the number one question
@@missmahogany031 how she able to walk she needs therapy because she didn't move he legs for 20 YEARS
A wheel chair where is it
Lol 😂
Her parents no. Her FATHER, because her mother died before the coma, so, even worse.
most likely won the case against tiffany’s parents years ago and used that money to keep rebel’s character alive. kind of reason why they have her dream house bc their parents got it as their wedding gift
there’s no way you’d be in a coma for 20 years and wake up *heavier* than when you went into one. I lost 30 lbs when I was stuck in the hospital for a month lol.
And how she could immediately walk after waking up from a 20 year coma.
I lost 10 pounds after being in the hospital for a week or so after brain surgery
my biggest issues with this movie:
- tiffany not getting jail time after intentionally injuring a person leading to comatose.
- stephanie being able to do stuff after sleeping for 20 years.
- stephanie being okay after waking up. like, correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t there supposed to be follow-up check ups on stephanie?? ik this movie was supposed to be focused on steph catching up on her senior year, but still.
i had all these issues plus how she was mentally 17 yet dating 37 year olds? i know bodily she's 37 but there's a big point of her being mentally 17 these actual mental and physical adults shouldn't want to date her ??
They had to take artistic license for this. There’s no way to fit all the realism into 2hrs
And the fact that they’re from Australia yet Stephanie is the only one with a accent
Plot armour
@@morismpimbazi5412 it literally says in the beginning “when I moved to the US” lol
I liked the movie but I’m surprised they didn’t want to throw even a little trauma or side effects in there… like even at the end they couldn’t have Rebel be a little scared to do the cheer flip that put her in a 20 year coma??
Yeah, they should've held back on that part.
Her whole thing is completely unbreakable confidence
She's a 40 year old woman who woke up from a coma that decided rather than move on with her life she needed to be a teenager again and go back to high school.
That's a huge trauma response.
Yeah I was thinking that they should have met her be scared about the cheer flip
Oh yeah totally understand this one but it’s probably cuz this was visioned as comedy
"Then you hit your thirties and you sprain your shoulder by sleeping wrong."
Ouch. Too real, man. I've spent the last two days with shoulder pain that I just woke up with for no reason.
That happens to me and I’m 22 lol
Time to get a chiropractor~
Time to live a more healhty lifestyle. Walk more, be outside in the sun and eat real food.
What bothers me is that the adult Stephanie acts more childish than the teen one??? And they have entirely different personalities 😭😭😭
exactly. The thing is that Rebel plays Rebel. She doesn't even try to play someone else. In literally every movie she is the same, same vulgar humour, same jokes, same faces etc. And the girl that plays young Stephanie just didn't learn her way.
@@katerinafeiglova7886 right!!!! rebel reminds me of dyane johnson, they both play the same/similar character in every project they’re in
Brain damage from the comma?
She acts the same, at first I thought the same as you, but it's that when we see a grown ass adult acting like that we find too childish while when we see the same behavior on a teen it looks more "natural"
@@justsaying8358 yeah I was impressed at how Angourie Rice captured Rebel Wilson's mannerisms
The only iconic part of this film is how Alicia Silverstone plays the dream woman Stephanie idolizes and in an odd way sort of easter eggs Clueless and the popularity there, it was the perfect cast decision
omg i didn't even realize it was alicia silverstone.. u r right
Yeah, made me think of an adult version of Cher Horowitz.
Yeahh the poster of the clueless movie also hung in her room in one scene!
She was a good choice to play that role.
Wait, that makes sense! So that was actually a grown up Cher :O
Tbh, the idea of a former-teen waking up from a long coma to find the world had moved on, mourning the years they lost, feeling out of place with their older and weaker (from atrophy) body as they go through physical therapy, seeing how their former classmates had matured and became adults and no longer cared about highschool as much as they did, feeling awkward and disconnected from their friends who had grown up, learning to reconnect with them, growing as a person as they adapt in this new world and accept it and themselves, sounds really good and I would watch that. If written well, that is.
So you want the same premise but a different genre?
@@dotcom3015 yeah i guess
So, not only does Rebel have perfect hair and makeup after getting out of a 20 year coma, but she's apparently not traumatised enough to need therapy?!
It's a comedy and one with Rebel Wilson as the lead, I wouldn't look too much into it 🤷🏽♀️
Nope.
And COMPLETELY adjusts to a real life timeskip with no difficulty
@@maggiemcfly5267 that doesn't mean it doesn't have to make SENSE.
ikr and the people who caused the accident didn't get JAILED. There's literally a video.
Ok but how did Tiffany not suffer any consequences for making Rebel's character fall and end up in a coma?
It's a comedy movie
@@bigclitenergy
Sometimes things are less of an exception
@@bigclitenergy so in comedy movies attempted murder is not a thing?
@@nherty6172 I mean pretty much. it's not supposed to be serious and realistic and get into deeper things like attempted murder so obviously they just want to keep it light, wholesome(ish) and overall goofy
@@nherty6172 In reality attempted murder is not a thing if you're 1) a popular teenager 2) it can be spun as an accident
Kids at least back in the time period she was hurt in the movie got away with behavior that would see grown adults facing prison time by handwaving it away as the normal behavior of children.
So we're all just going to ignore, what those cheerleaders were doing on the "turtles choking on plastic straws"💀
'Twas the joke
Nahh wtf bro
THATS WHAT IM SAYING
Oml I just realized it
This is exactly what I was saying in my post, the joke just fell flat. Ofcourse everybody doesn't want turtles to choke on straws, that's beside the point. The point is: this was a complete nonsense initiative to reduce the usage of plastic straws and making fun of it requires a bit of sophistication and thought, just like this initiative required a bit more sophistication and thought.
The reduction of plastic straws in the ocean requires a global initiative, As people in China and Indonesia are responsible for polluting the vast majority of the ocean's plastic, while the EU and US are responsible for a fraction of that. Meanwhile we are the only ones that actually seem to care about it.
Similary, the Hollywood mentality that is responsible for all the woke ideas oozing from nearly every show and film, completely falls flat when they try to make a joke about woke ideas.
Yes, the joke is about something else than plastic straws ... but the delivery is so basic and so besides the point, that is simply doesn't work. This self critical stuff needs to be genuine and this clearly is not.
She woke up the day after her birthday. I'd like to think it was her family that tried to make the day special for her and did her hair and makeup.
Mmmmmmm this is a lovely thought
Good logic.
aww, that's sweet.
kinda creepy tho...
@@SimsyHazel not really??
The movie is pretty dumb sometimes but it’s clearly shown that Bri doesn’t like what her mother is doing and wants to be a better person than her by giving up prom queen.
Yeah he criticized her suddenly giving up prom queen but she never cared about it.
she was just a bit high horse, proud and stuck up but a good kid deep down.
That actually sounds great because it's a modern day retcon of the mean cheerleader stereotype 😁
I guess today it's "the mean influencer".
I got the impression that she did it to stick it to her mom (which she hates) and just happend to end up liking our mc
Also didnt get the Mean influencer vip from her she seemed to acually care about All that stuff and her mom just took advantage of it and her which is why she doesnt like her
Exactly im not gonna say this movie was perfect but the teenage characters were actually portrayed well. Like at first it looked like it was gonna be making fun of teen for today but I they felt a lot more real as the movie went on. And we actively see Bri slowly turning away from becoming her mother
I was in high school 2008-2012 and we still used the “pity the fool” line. Her reference was valid.
And if she was a senior in 2002, it means she was born in 1984. So she was too young to watch but probably still knew about it. Mr T was also still a well known public figure into the 90s and even 2000s. She definitely would have grown up knowing him. The reference tracks.
I Graduated High School In 2019 And I’ve Made A Mr. T Reference Before Lol .
I make them in high school still
At least Angourie Rice was able to play an Australian for once. She and Rebel actually look like they could be related.
They look nothing alike 😂😂😂
She’s Australian?
Had to look her up because I knew I recognized her from somewhere
She's Betty in the MCU Spiderman movies for those who don't know
@@ghost_curse she's Ryan Gosling's daughter in the nice guys movie too.
@@ghost_curse the news girl?
I think it would have been better as a dark comedy like heathers or jawbreaker or even a horror film where Stephanie gets revenge on Tiffany for trying to kill her.
Agreed Katya ☺️
Omg yeah
yes!
That would be my fav movie
Omggg yes like the movie Catfight with Sandra Oh! It's so dark but funny
I think it would've been a funny plot device/premise if all the current students were so busy and involved with their phones that they were too preoccupied to notice how old she was until they actually talked to her.
The fact that Tiffany and her cohorts weren't sent to jail for obvious criminal intent is just... What the fuck?
Girl tries to murder a girl and even after the girl recovers she just tries to ignore her and keep being with a guy she must have gaslighted into being with her after you know almost murdering his girlfriend
@@senritsujumpsuit6021 In a parallel universe this movie would be psychological thriller.
@@MsDaydream3r That was what I was expecting when I heard the plot of this movie. I am so disappointed.
Is it just me or did this movie feel like a parody of the teen movie tropes, it felt like they knew it was going to be ridiculous and filled with plot holes so they just played into them rather than trying to seriously do the tropes? To me it was quite self aware but that’s just me
I agree, Alex seems to as well by also mentioning how self aware it is. This theme is however lost on a lot of commenters lol
Exactly!! I loved that the movie was so self aware in that sense and I laughed our loud in those intense scenes where tiffany and steph confront each other and rival music plays in the background 🤣 it's clearly a parody of those mean girl enemy tropes
That's how I interpreted the movie too. I enjoyed it a lot from start to end and I'm quite shocked to learn that so many people hate this movie apparently and wanted the movie to head in a dramatic and tragedy direction.
@@mac9733 lol its not a masterpiece or anything but I was really shocked while checking the comments bc people didn't really catch the satirical aspect of it, treating if it were a normal serious highschool romcom ..
while i was watching it i literally couldnt tell if it was a parody or not, i stopped taking it seriously 10 minutes in lmao
As a nerd, I can confirm that Alex is right- I force my interests onto my friends until they stop resisting
I can relate :D
Same
This is what i call "Aggressively Mediocre," a story that has elements with potential, but it railroads itself into the most average development possible
definitely, it could have played out amazingly but they didn't venture beyond shallow points and mediocre acting. this has potential and they wasted it
So basically every cw show after season 2
Bc it was never meant to be a serious, deep movie. It has Rebel Wilson as the main cast and you complain about it not being the movie of the year?
Aggressively garbage more like.. jesus this is the epitome of what movies should NOT be.. hell as soon as I saw the 30yr old looking abercrombe highschool bf with the 15yr old looking prom queen I threw up in my mouth &said nope. I'm good .
It's literally just a comedy & it had a really nice message
I think the most unrealistic/best part of this whole movie is the fact that someone fell into a coma at 17, and wakes up 20 years later and somehow does not freak the fuck out.
I can't be the only one who would panic like crazy after losing two decades of my life. Not even to mention questioning myself "Do I have brain damage? Will my memory continue to function normally?"
Nah, lets be prom queen.
Maybe becoming prom queen was the real brain damage all along
Having a Coma is like dreaming usually it’s like your sleeping for a very long time ,some people wake up not knowing they were in a coma
There is also a chance you would forget your physical and mental body functions and have the learn it again, another unrealistic aspect.
@@milkhomie4582 they literally mention it in the movie tho that her situation is miraculous
I mean she did faint and reason of prom queen was her way to cope and do the reason of her mom thing xD
while I didn’t mind the movie, I was also confused how she was considered a “loser” while being blonde, having an accent, and being a cheerleader ??
she was a loser BEFORE being a cheerleader , bcs she was an australian that didn't fit in america. once she became a cheerleader she was no longer a loser
I am blonde, have an accent and was a cheerleader and yet I was still a loser because people can be bullies to anybody. Some "popular" people are mostly the opposite of what movies and TV shows will tell you.
It was before she became a cheerleader ...her insecurities made herself think she's a loser
“have an accent” 💀
because her mother, if they found out at school about that. because she was nervous, insecure, etc... lots of things.
I think Bri's character arc was finally getting out from under her overbearing and evil mom. I don't think Bri was ever the bully and her mom was the one pushing her. On prom night she finally decides to stop letting her mom control her so that Bri can become the person she actually wants to be which isn't prom queen.
I think at Bri's intro when she took the selfie with Steph..theyre trying to get viewers to think..the popular girls are your typical mean girls you see in other movies but this school..under Martha's control and influence..has made mean bullys out of fashion...so bri being the popular girl believes in inclusiveness and very environmentally aware..thats the new norm
Also the fact that she was literally named after a Britney Spears studio album - Britney Jean, lol
Honestly i don't even think it's that deep. Her mom is making her do something she doesn't want to (be prom queen) so she intentionally fucked it up to get back at her. That's very in-character for a teenager.
@@Porkbeans1 Maybe? Alex did show a clip of Bri outright refusing to do it.
i’m going into my senior year of high school, this isn’t what schools in the post-pandemic world are like. at all. there’s still a social hierarchy, popularity is still a thing even though it looks different than it used to and there are more ways to achieve it, people don’t constantly talk about turtles dying (and the ones who do are generally perceived as annoying) cheerleaders still wear short skirts (and i’ve never seen a guy wear a skirt to school lmao), and that outfit she wore to her first day would absolutely be considered cool, i honestly dress like that all the time.
I think it was supposed to kind of make fun of people who try to seem enviroment friendly even though they're not, bit I could be wrong
I’m having conflicted thoughts in regards to this whole movie. It’s not a comedic masterpiece or anything like that, but I guess it’s still somewhat weirdly enjoyable and interesting to watch. Also, can we talk about Angourie Rice for a quick sec? I feel like she’s perfectly casted as Rebel’s younger counterpart. Change my mind if you will, but the resemblance between them is so striking that it’s somewhat unbelievable that they’re not actually related in real life. This is probably Rebel’s most mediocre performance in a feature length movie, but the again, there’s always room for improvement, so I’m not really complaining. Rebel in Pitch Perfect may be the absolute best in my own humble opinion. I’m sounding way too biased, but I still have to mention it. Also, the movie’s concept definitely has a lot of potential. It’s taking references from 90s and 2000s comedy teen flicks, but this one in particular didn’t deliver to its utmost capacity. Some scenes in this even felt out of place and bland so to speak. There wasn’t enough cheer scenes. Also the other characters weren’t exactly fleshed out. We didn’t get to know much about their backgrounds and/or upbringings. Apologies for the very long rant sort of thing.
always interesting to see random proper reviews in the comments
100% agree with this take. It felt like a speedrun between the characters. The concept is there but you need to create deeper relationships or else these characters are barely a step above extras.
Yeah it was enjoyable especially seeing the 2000s highschool and the 2020s highschool, both are so different, has their own goods and bad and I wish we could just create a healthy balance
She wasnt really the main character in the other movies?? So I wouldnt really say she did better, just the movie was better as a whole for pitch perfect.
The actress was good, yes. She picked up Rebel's gestures really well!
The whole time I'm just here wondering how Tiffany wasn't arrested, sued, or paying for the hospital bill for the girl who she literally put in a coma. You don't put someone in a coma and just continue living your life without worry!
You do if you're a teenager and they can blame your actions on "kids just being kids"
@@MrJackfaire That's just sad tbh...
@@MrJackfaire if I was Stephanie’s dad I 100% would have sued
her dad probably did sue her or more likely her parents, since he had to pay and provide for her hospital expenses, IN AMERICA. and didn’t tiff got her dream house as a wedding gift? so yeah that’s my theory-ish
13:22 this knocked me to the floor in laughter, partly because it was the very same reaction i had when watching the scene just before lmfao
i love how alex’s animation has somehow gotten even better over time. keep up the good work!!!
Agreed, he's been making these videos for almost five years now, and they just keep getting better! 😍
I feel like a reason this movie probably worked for you and others is because Rebel's very good at getting across the absurdity of these kinds of movie's plots through her acting; not just verbally, but also through body language as well. She can give off a genuine 'don't care/unfazed by cringey-ness' of her characters typically very embarrassing actions from the audiences stand point. It's something I rather admire about her and other actor's capability to do this, as I personally get secondhand embarrassment from just watching it on screen. >_
you worded this super well, i wouldn’t be able to. 100%.
Makes me willing to watch it. We found out one of our classmates was a 30 year old woman that used the fact it was hard to visually pin down her age and dressing young to go from school to school every 4 years and relive her high school experience.
She would just show up in an area as a runaway from horrible parents get put into social services and then enrolled in school. Since then any time that plot point is in a show or movie it gives me shivers.
Well put.
I thought the movie was technically bad, but Rebel Wilson brought the charm that made it enjoyable to watch. I've never been a huge fan of her, so I was pleasantly surprised by how well she was able to carry the movie on her back.
I think rebel is very good at making vomit inducing scripts and writing actually funny and bearable, with the intended amount of cringe. I like rebel, she’s cool :D
The fact that she didn't sue (or at least her family) is incredibly unbelievable to me.
Unbelievable? A comedy movie? No way!
Imagine if she woke up after that coma and was like "I'm 37? Not again!" and it's never explained what she means by that throughout the rest of the film.
Lmao
Would be funny if in the background a look alike of the Main character of 17 again for now reason he's just their having his own mini plot back their haha
@@senritsujumpsuit6021 And that too is like never explained xD
Wait so this is set in America but the Dad doesn't sue or anything over the insane medical costs that would come from a multi-decade coma? No one did anything about the girl who caused another students coma? Hell, once she went into the coma HER BOYFRIEND MARRIED THE WOMAN WHO CAUSED IT
Holy shit, the therapy I would need...
Wow, I'm so used to people over 30 acting as teens that I forgot that she is an adult that went back from school
It was so hard watching this movie, the sad thing is that this actually sound like a cool movie concept
I highly concur, the premise sounded fresh and unique, but it was unfortunately bogged down by lacklustre "jokes" trying to be relevant.
Yeah at the beginning I genuinely was enjoying it till I quickly realized that it was just gonna be another teen romcom plot except with an old lady instead of a nerdy one with glasses
@@belsnow1158 haha exactly how i felt
literally confused because didn't everyone see Tiffany push the other cheerleaders out of the way? wouldn't they hold her accountable?? why didn't Tiffany go to jail? I would NOT get back with someone who put my girlfriend in a coma??
Something that annoys me a lot is that Tiffany literally put Stephanie in a coma. For 20 years. And she did it in a highly public place where there was a bunch of witnesses to see. But she got NO punishment? 😟
How did Tiffany not get arrested or face any consequences? She basically tried to kill Stephanie.
it’s a comedy not a true crime story
I was hesitant to watch this movie. It's good that the other students know about her situation that makes it a LOT less creepy.
In my high school we had this not super attractive 15 year old girl show up. Turned out after being a classmate and dating another classmate of ours that she was actually a 30 something year old woman who would use the fact it was hard to define her age to "runaway" every four years and go to high school as a 15 year old.
Ours was the last school before she hit before getting busted.
yikes.
Wtf?!
how did it take so long?
was her name Treva Throneberry? i tried to look it up
@@RikDog91 Yes that was her
Did nobody mention that this is inspired by a true story? There was a cheerleader that ended up in a coma and woke up 20 years later. But she mentioned that when she was in the coma, she was aware of things happening around her. When she awoken, she knew about 9/11 because she remembered being told about it while in her coma.
I think my favorite thing about the movie is how perfect the cast was, like all the actors look exactly like their young counter parts
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Movies like "Tall Girl" don't seem to understand that a 16/17 year old is at or nearly full grown. There would be plenty of guys as tall or taller than her. My son's 14 and over 6ft. and he's not the only one of his friends that tall. It probably comes from Hollywood always casting short adult actors as teenagers by using height to infer the authority dynamic with adult characters.
I would say they cast ‘young looking’ adults as opposed to short adults. There are many movies where adults and teens are the same exact height, but actually-an-adult actor is just baby faced. And often way-tooo-old boys are cast as the high school heartthrob to like a 17 year old actress.
But Tall Girl absolutely went out of its way to lean the majority of the casting shorter then the lead character in order to emphasize the characters height. But the funny thing is in the second movie she seems to just be around handsome ‘tall’ (as her) guys in school all of a sudden without having to ship a height-appropriate guy from overseas. Were they all just in drama club and she couldn’t find them?
Yeah but 16 to 18 year olds don't look like people in there mid 20s but Hollywood will still hire way to old actors for a role as a teenager
aye yo wtf tell your 14 year old to sit tf down and quit growing 😭 im 20 and im only 5'5" wtf
@@TheDawnofVanlife _cough_ never have i ever
@@themarsman5155 that’s not true, 16-18 year olds, a LOT of them do in fact look like they are in their mid 20s. As someone that was a junior high teacher, I had students that out in public I would think they were 17-18, so imagine how old they would look at 17 or 18…
this movie is actually kind of depressing when you really think deeply on it. she lost her “prime” years according to most adults over something as stupid as her boyfriend/cheer captain. something that literally is not serious when you’re out of high school. and to add insult to injury the people who engaged in the actions weren’t caught or arrested for attempted murder?
Wanted to write this. Like... if you think about it, suddenly losing all your remaining teenage years, the years when you develop your career or creating your family and then your 30s is really sad.
this movie was literally insane and i don’t even know in what way
@@dagman3651 I loved it
10:47 okay but I love him for that
I think the reason I liked senior year compared to the other teen movies is bc the main character actually faces real struggles instead of being too tall. She lost 20 years of her life but still manages to thrive.
I get why bri had her change of heart. she wanted to fuck over her mom, who is very controlling. She's rebelling and asserting her independence.
That she looks good and kind in the process is a bonus.
The way Hollywood casts 20 and 30-year-olds as teenagers, Rebel's character in HS is "believable". Remember what the Riverdale characters looked like when they were still in high school?
I keep seeing people say “why didn’t Tiffany get jail time?” Because everyone thought it was an ACCIDENT lmao. No one knew Tiffany intended to hurt steph.
THIS
no? the movie literally shows the other cheerleaders being pushed away from catching her
The kids she pushed are literally witnesses to the crime they can't think it's an accident. It's def a plot hole lol this whole movie is a plot hole though
You'd still get jail time for accidentally hurting someone to the point of someone going into a coma for twenty years.
it was in front of a whole pep rally tho, you’re telling me that NONE of those people evidently SAW them push the person that was supposed to catch her?… right right
I remember seeing the trailer for this movie and thinking “Alex is going to have a field day with this concept”
I actually liked this movie. It was a funny blend of 2001 and now
Ditto, it's like a fun guilty pleasure movie. As long as you don't question the logic behind it, then it's an entertaining time.
Yeah I liked it. It's interesting to see our generations different styles seen
I was expecting to hear that Stephanie started to date the most popular guy in the high school and pleasantly surprised and relieved that the minor dating someone old enough to be their parent thing wasn’t done because that type of relationship is always so icky. Stephanie was at least smart enough to just want to focus on school and cheering and not the literal boys that also attend the high school.
To all the people saying ''this is not how teenagers are'' yeah, that's the point, it was absurd wacky and enjoyable, and as someone whose senior year is also 2022 I loved it. It didn't take itself seriously and all the references and actors did amazingly great, had a great time
im also a senior in 2022 lol.
Aha me too, highschool has been crazy this past bit
THANK YOU!!!!
Doesn’t matter the movie was 💩
Sometimes you just need a little dumbassery.
I watched this the other day. It’s definitely not the worst thing I’ve seen. Rebel Wilson definitely carries this movie.
I can't believe the antagonist just almost kill someone and be mean to the protagonist when she just woke up from a coma
15:11
We need to talk about this amazingly haunting angle and why I feel like I need more of it.. the floor is open
I love how self aware they were. Netflix needs to stop with the Mean Girls knock offs
the casting for this movie was good like the younger actors actually looked like their older counterparts
butterfly clips are totally making a come back. but like why doesn’t she have to do any physical therapy 😵💫
Yes, right? I mean usually nurses move your limbs, but no way she have that vigor. She be at least dealing with atrophy of the muscles.
At least in erased they portrayed it a lot more realistic, but I know I’m going to get one of her fans defending the movie by calling it irony even though it’s just lazy writing 🤪
i like the sequence of events in this comment
Fictional comas often work very differently from real comas, especially after the patient wakes up.
@@sydneycho7290 It literally is irony tho. I'm not a "crazy fan" but just annoyed by all you ppl who try to sound smart by criticizing a comedy movie with fucking Rebel Wilson in it. This movie doesn't even have "crazy fans" bc it's just a funny little movie you watch once and then forget. You also compared it to smth that wasn't supposed to be a comedy so ofc that one's gonna look more realistic in comparison.
It's really weird and kinda pathetic how you call anyone who doesn't agree with you on a forgettable movie a "crazy fan". You're fucking miserable lmao. All you middle aged women in comment section always have the worst takes and weirdest behaviours...
Get a fucking life girl
Kinda hate how this movie portrays Rebels character living in a BEAUTIFUL and rather large craftsman style historic home with a ton of character which probably costs like 500-600K today as a "shanty" for the poors. LOL
going back for a year of high school as an adult is literally a recurring nightmare I'm addressing in therapy 🤣
okay but I kinda liked this movie. I thought it was stupidly funny in some ways and the storyline was kinda interesting if you look at a further depth into Stephanie’s character
Seconded, the concept sounded unique, and if it were more of a psychological thriller than a comedy, maybe it might have worked more.
yeah even tho there are things that i hated like the girls who caused the accident didn't get jailed. I actually enjoyed watching it lmao.
@@reshiejung same like the accident was lowkey confusing…and I was kinda upset it was never addressed later on but I still enjoyed it
yeah with her mom and all and her priorities
Hmm I might give it a watch
this movie was perfect, like a love letter to 90s and 2000s kids. the one thing that bothered me was how Tiffany didn't get arrested for trying to kill Stephanie.
I felt the same. I saw some love for it on Twitter too so I was surprised at the hate it's getting here lmao. maybe in the future this will be looked at differently
@@theclairewhy Some wannabe film critics and "smart" people who don't know that comedies don't always have to make sense
@@leobe2104 it was pretty cringe tho but it was funny 😄
It was a silly movie fun to watch. I think we all needed this "00s" type of movie revival
This movie is nowhere near what 2000s movies were like. No one needed this lol
As someone who loves 2000s movies, this is not a representation of 2000s movies.
@@manahelmir8280 Maybe speak for yourself. I thought it was a fun movie.
I think it was fun too cjdjd
@@Nirrini that’s your opinion but still doesn’t change that it’s nothing like 2000s movies 🤷🏽♀️
The DUFF was actually the only good one he produced and better than the other movies he did despite trying kinda hard to be funny but I actually liked it and the actors did a good job at not making it that cringe
Is it just me or is this plot actually incredibly sad and they turned it into a joke-
yeah pretty much. i’m annoyed with how the post-coma situation made no sense.
exactly
its a fucking silly ass movie, its not that deep
@@RANDOM-pf1ve yeah a woman being assaulteld, loosing 20 years of her life and struggling to come to terms with this is just a silly ass movie...
@@heartsteme8329 With that logic even 'Home Alone' is a traumatic movie like bro do not have anything else to do than just say how a silly movie caused thousands of ppl trauma, ppl really be having too much time
My issue with this movie is I actually really liked the way Angourie played Stephanie and then Rebel's version was pretty different (which is odd, cos I also felt like Angourie portrayed Rebel's mannerisms etc well) and because I enjoyed Angourie's version so much I spent the whole movie not enjoying Rebel's version.
Honestly I gotta say how much of a psychopath do you gotta be to let someone fall from that height, and almost literally killing them. And even if she didn’t kill the blond girl, a fall like that could have seriously broken her back and cause paralysis so that she couldn’t walk ever again. This movie is a lot more messed up then I realized.
Netflix has a strange pattern of ruining thought-provoking concepts with forced humor and surface level character development. I wish they would fully commit to these projects.
4:10 .......who takes care of plants in a dress and high heels?
me
5:14 Are we just gonna ignore that assassination attempt?? Did those kids get arrested or what??
Actually I saw a lot of criticism around this movie, but to be honest i really enjoyed it. You can't watch it with the mindset that you are going to watch a good deep meaningful movie. Just a chill comedy to enjoy with friends. There have been a LOT of movies trying to work with this "Mean Girls" theme, but it mostly ends up being really cringe. I feel like senior year doesn't take itself so seriously and Rebel Wilson is actually really good in my opinion :)
This isn't a Mean girls thingy...this is another flip remake. Seriously? Has nobody seen Kickin' it old skool? This guy was in a breakdance competition with his buddies ( all 12yo) in the 80's, the main character pulls a dangerous stunt and falls, gets hurt, falls into a 20 year coma, which is adressed more at length, then something triggers his waking up, they take him home and he has to work to get his strength back, etc. etc... The stuff there is funnier, they do all kinds of stupid stuff too, because... well it's a comedy... but the bully gets his scoop of karma and it's somehow more rewarding than in this one.
@@m0t0b33 Sorry I wasn't quite sure what to call this concept. But what I ment is this whole being the popular one and becoming prom queen etc.
I love those kind of movies when they are well done but I found this one boring and full of 2010's clichés! Felt like it was written by adults (well I know it was but..."huuh teens and their phones and social media...") The acting was kinda bad too.
YES THANK U
Agreed.i loved it.
I honestly love this movie! I don't care how inaccurate and unrealistic it is! Lol. To be honest, I was an awkward, unpopular kid. I did not like school. The only things that I like are watching cheer dancing and drawing my art for the teachers. I enjoyed getting compliments from teachers on my writing and singing. Yeah, that's it. I was bullied a lot but I did enjoy watching the dance numbers of the popular kids because they're talented.
Senior Year is fun, and all the "cringey" stuff is intentionally cringey. It was so fun to watch.
They tried so hard to he “intentionally cringe” and appeared to be just cringe
@@ouranji76 so uhm, mission accomplished??
@@ouranji76 y’all are never satisfied smh
@@youraverageasian1601 theres a difference between intentionally cringe and pure cringe, so not mission accomplished
No it's not considering the fact Tiffany never faced Jail time for attempted Murder, and Steph wasn't exactly traumatized by the fact that 20 years of her life is gone and all she can focus about was one thing?
I feel like Rebel Wilson only has one personality in every single role she does.
exactly! She just plays herself (similar to Ryan Reynolds)
She was close to unrecognizable in this. Apart from her physical transformation, I was wondering when I was going to see some of her... better physical comedy talents? I don't find her particularly funny as it is, but it's usually not this bad. It's probably from over doing the hyper happy character.
She got the female washed down version of Ryan Reynolds energy
@@troydhliwayo648 oh gods, take that back! Ryan Reynolds can be charming and funny. Rebel is obnoxious.
@@j3licat Facts.
My question is why she thought there would be no changes to her school. I left my former school for like, a year, and they did countless renovations and swapped up countless rooms and concepts to the point it felt completely unfamiliar aside from some random corners.
In all seriousness, the house at 4:01 is the most beautiful fricken house if ever seen in my life..
As someone currently going to highschool, the whole "being popular" thing is strange. Usually these days, the "nerds" are the ones people wanna hang out with
Everyone has their own friend groups
Eh, I graduated about 3 years ago and from what I remember the “popular” kids were either really good at sports, were in ASB, or had money or something. Granted, most popular kids were genuinely nice people with friends in all places
17:05 that was my reaction as well, it’s such a bizarre experience. Adults who fetishize their own highschool experience should not be in charge of writing movies about highschool. Can we actually have people who went to highschool post 2010 be involved in writing about their own experience? Any time people try to write a movie about highschool it miserably misrepresents the modern experience. Watching a movie and hearing a girl scream “OMG-OMGMFOAGE!!!!” Isn’t a thing anyone genuinely experiences it, and all it does is perpetuate the stereotype that teenage girls are stupid, and anything they are into must be inherently stupid.
What hand motions are they doing 🤔 13:16
Lol I was like ayooo stop the videoooo
HOLD UP
You're right it doesn't take itself too seriously. I also appreciated the moments the main character had with her mom and when her dad said that great thing about the people who love you the most. That was sweet.
I enjoyed the movie. She was given a second chance to relive high school and when you are older you get very nostalgic and that is where the movie hit me.
"Thank you for this bountiful meal Netflix"....I have no idea why that got me so good I had to cackle out loud like a dying witch.
11:04 "At some point the nerds won and ran everything into the ground." 😂😂😂 May be the best quote ever.
6:27 its funny because butterfly clips are coming back
So where not going to talk about how the mean girl LITTERLY COULD HAVE MURDERED THE MC
Honestly if I where the MC I would have sued
Watching a middle aged person act like a petty teenager isn't my idea of a great film. I see that enough in real life.
So true
That's what made me like the movie lol
Cool
13:02 HELP IS THIS SUKUNA 😭😭
real lol
The way she just woke up and walked out of the coma? No ventilation nothing. Wow
You know, I actually liked this movie. It didn't feel like it took itself too seriously, and I like that the mean girl trope was more because of the mom pushing what she wants onto her daughter- I understand that issue and how much strife it can cause. I also just genuinely laughed out loud at multiple points, and Lance was genuinely funny to me (plus I just enjoyed the fact that he was more of a feminine person but it didn't define his sexuality or identity, it was a nice reminder for me as a trans person who is working on understanding that better in relation to myself.)
Agreed! (From a fellow trans person 😆)
Me too lls I couldn’t believe the reviews! I’ve been telling everyone to watch it with a beer or glass of wine and relax with it lmfao it’s hilarious to me