Easy A movie review

September 17, 2010 - #65/100
Easy A (2010)

High school student Olive Penderghast (Emma Stone) finds herself the victim of her school's "rumor mill" when she lies to her best friend Rhiannon (Alyson Michalka) about a weekend fling with a fictional college freshman. Word quickly spreads of Olive's promiscuity and, much to her surprise, she welcomes the attention. When she agrees to help out a bullied friend by pretending to sleep with him, her image rapidly degrades to a more lascivious state and her world begins to spin out of control. As she helps more and more of her classmates, and her lies continue to escalate, Olive must find a way to save face before the school's religious fanatic Marianne (Amanda Bynes) gets her expelled, and she loses a shot at attaining her own happiness. Personally, I loved this movie. Emma Stone was absolutely hilarious. The only aspect of the movie that I didn't care about too much was the fact that Olive's parents didn't really seem bothered by what Olive had done, nor did they ever question her when she'd tell them to ignore any rumors that they might hear about her. Normally, parents wouldn't be that lenient. But, other than that, I thought that this was a great movie. I saw it three times, and I'll definitely buy it when it comes out on DVD.