Easy A is the 2010's Mean Girls. Emma Stone is Lindsay Lohan -- same chubbiness, same red hair, same throaty voice. Let's hope she doesn't flush her career down the tubes with drinking and drugs. If she looses 15 lbs, it's the first sign of impending celebrity implosion.

The movie's plot centers around Stone's character, Olive, as she makes herself out to be the school skank after a lie she told was warped by the grapevine. This riles up the geeks to hit her up for some of that lying action. She does and they gain some notoriety. Then the school prayer group takes it upon themselves to get her kicked out school. Then the school mascot was always in love with her. Then the school guidance counselor, the school's coolest teacher, and a weird hairy chrisitan showed up to add another plot thread. This is just to say that there were a lot of plotlines in this movie.

The writers of the movie played a lot off of 80s teen comedies: Say Anything, Can't Buy Me Love, The Breakfast Club. It tries to bring all those into play. So it was quite something with all these plotlines. It should've just settled itself as Mean Girls.

2 of 5 stars.

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