All Screwed Up (2009) User Reviews

A very different comedy

[selvadorada300 · 5/10 · 24 March 2015]

Teenisha(Chyna Layne) is a high school student who is constantly bullied by her fellow classmates because of her odd behavior and exotic interest on insects. A Namibian elephant beetle, which she ordered online has a mystical power that can switches souls if they're bitten by it. Unfortunately she and her neighbor Pete(Jake Waldman), who is also her schoolmate and very popular on school, are the victim by the mystical beetle. Being trapped on each other bodies Teenisha must save or she further ruined Pete's career on basketball.

I think the movie done pretty well despite on actors awful acting and idiotic plot.I notice the prevalence of interracial relationship thought out the film and I actually like it. All screwed up is infamous comedy fantasy that worth give a try. 5/10

I JUST KISSED MYSELF

[nogodnomasters · 5/10 · 10 April 2019]

This is another trading places movie. One of the victims is the unlikable Teenisha (Chyna Layne). She is a bit spastic and the product of her own doing, being disagreeable because she can be, engaging in half-truths and playing the victim. Pete (Jake Waldman) is the other lost soul. He is the center of the basketball team and is the closet thing Teenisha has to a friend. Pete gets ridiculed for his friendship with Teenish, the worse coming from his girlfriend Hillary (Allison Carter Thomas) a cheerleader who is also the leader of the "mean girls."

Teenisha acquires a rare CG elephant beetle from Africa, one that can survive in a sealed plastic container. Through various circumstances they trade places with the formulaic results.

This movie has big pluses and big minuses. The acting of Allison Carter Thomas was completely overdone and approaches camp as she is the stereotypical mean girl without chance for redemption. Once the characters were switched, the actors were able to shine in their reverse roles as they assumed the personality of the other. Indeed, this was the strength of the film, one that was underutilized. The feel of the film as well as the characters were directed at a young audience, yet in one scene they drop the F-Bomb. This was done for a comedic effect. Steve as Teenisha uses the phrase which Teenisha as Steve repeats but uses "freaken" instead. It wasn't that funny. If they removed it, it would be suitable for a tween film.

A heart of gold ,wrapped in rubbish

[twistedsteelpony · 7/10 · 27 May 2020]

This little movie has a pile of potential A quirky magical premise, a sweet love story, a decent subplot about bullying and even manages to be respectful about an autism like disorder for a minute. But it's buried under terrible humor that turns the first half of the movie into a bad parody of a bad high school movie. It's as if someone working on this was passionate and creative about making films and someone else was phoning it in and just hitting terrible tropes. It's the sort of films that is exemplar of the issues that make every movie these days feel so similar.