Now...a friend recommended this to me because it was a Jolie film, and I was kinda shocked to find it was a teenager movie...I had thought it would be about a bunch of women in their mid-20s to mid 30-s rampaging around...
It started out strongly with the teacher being a heel, and the group exacting revenge on him, then congregating around Legs...
Legs was a strong, central figure, obviously meant to serve as a mentor for the group, and she fulfilled that role...but I still started dozing off about halfway through the movie.
My biggest problem here is one of credibility...all the guys are monstrous rapists and abusers, and all the girls are heroes...
Okay, I'll buy that it's an empowerment chick flick, I'm cool with that, but some of the characters were soooooooo underdeveloped. I mean I thought Goldie was a guy hanging with the group until they started calling her "she" and "her" toward the end. And I had to wonder why Legs' best kid (Maggie, Maddie?) never got placed as a missing person.
Those are quibbles.
The movie serves well as a teen-girl-empowerment-chick-flick, but leaves me wanting more out of it...it seems it could have used an extra 10 minutes or so.
I can't give it more than a 4, really. But...I did watch this after But I'm a Cheerleader, so there was bound to be a huge letdown.
It started out strongly with the teacher being a heel, and the group exacting revenge on him, then congregating around Legs...
Legs was a strong, central figure, obviously meant to serve as a mentor for the group, and she fulfilled that role...but I still started dozing off about halfway through the movie.
My biggest problem here is one of credibility...all the guys are monstrous rapists and abusers, and all the girls are heroes...
Okay, I'll buy that it's an empowerment chick flick, I'm cool with that, but some of the characters were soooooooo underdeveloped. I mean I thought Goldie was a guy hanging with the group until they started calling her "she" and "her" toward the end. And I had to wonder why Legs' best kid (Maggie, Maddie?) never got placed as a missing person.
Those are quibbles.
The movie serves well as a teen-girl-empowerment-chick-flick, but leaves me wanting more out of it...it seems it could have used an extra 10 minutes or so.
I can't give it more than a 4, really. But...I did watch this after But I'm a Cheerleader, so there was bound to be a huge letdown.