Watched HAVOC just more than two weeks ago, expecting a relationship drama featuring teenage promiscuity, but instead got a gang-banger-theme featuring teenage promiscuity. Watching NORMAL ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR this week, expected a follow-up to HAVOC, a remake of sorts. But no, this one is a gentle movie with gentle characters bar a few tempers flaring. It's kind of disappointing, too, but my real problem during the premiere was that I couldn't make out what they were saying. Hell, people, I ain't deaf, but clear pronunciation is not big with the Newer Generations. Subtitle city! I checked on IMDb, some reviewers, obviously young, involved in the social scene of the day, hold this in high regard. So I went to subtitles, and I must admit that during my second outing with the movie, I developed more of an involvement. The movie is better than I thought. Sherbet, you need subtitles though. There are sentences that otherwise just cannot be discerned.
There is very little nudity in this film. Bare backs with a fleeting distant side view of breasts do appear three or so times. Aside from that, it is feet, hands, backs, legs, arms, so somebody was really playing it safe. I am not going to suggest that it should have been different, because maybe Amber Tamblyn took the part stipulating just exactly this, and she was really right for the part, so I wouldn't want to tamper with what we got. But in the unlikely event of there being a HAVOC 3, I'd say Something Wilder next time.
This one is a chick flick which definitely doesn't add up to the meaning of the word 'havoc' and so it should have remained NORMAL ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR with no reference to the Anne Hathaway movie.
Truth be told, there are way better teen dramas out there, better teenage promiscuity dramas too. But Amber Tamblyn did great, and that little junior star was noteworthy, I keep forgetting her name, the one with the darling fringe like Carly Rae Jeppsen. Had to peek now, Julia Gallo. (nowadays Laila Liliane Gallo, kinky! whatever works for you, pet)
Noticed that the storyline has them as in that group where they don't have to play the games of society. Yet they are all highly individualistic, a nose stud here, a nose job there...
What was up with those boxes though? Big deal! A seventies thing. Today's kids certainly wouldn't be bothered by mere trivialities.
Ideal for a rainy afternoon, but when the sun peeks through...
There is very little nudity in this film. Bare backs with a fleeting distant side view of breasts do appear three or so times. Aside from that, it is feet, hands, backs, legs, arms, so somebody was really playing it safe. I am not going to suggest that it should have been different, because maybe Amber Tamblyn took the part stipulating just exactly this, and she was really right for the part, so I wouldn't want to tamper with what we got. But in the unlikely event of there being a HAVOC 3, I'd say Something Wilder next time.
This one is a chick flick which definitely doesn't add up to the meaning of the word 'havoc' and so it should have remained NORMAL ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR with no reference to the Anne Hathaway movie.
Truth be told, there are way better teen dramas out there, better teenage promiscuity dramas too. But Amber Tamblyn did great, and that little junior star was noteworthy, I keep forgetting her name, the one with the darling fringe like Carly Rae Jeppsen. Had to peek now, Julia Gallo. (nowadays Laila Liliane Gallo, kinky! whatever works for you, pet)
Noticed that the storyline has them as in that group where they don't have to play the games of society. Yet they are all highly individualistic, a nose stud here, a nose job there...
What was up with those boxes though? Big deal! A seventies thing. Today's kids certainly wouldn't be bothered by mere trivialities.
Ideal for a rainy afternoon, but when the sun peeks through...