Tall Girl (2019) User Reviews

Exactly what it promises

[turnthefrogsgayy · 5/10 · 12 October 2019]

Tall girl is a movie about a tall girl. Thats the movie, and don't you dare forget it. My favorite part was when the protagonist, Jodi, was tall.

I liked it and then I didn't and then I liked it and then I didn't

[Short_and_to_the_point · 5/10 · 13 September 2019]

I mean, it wasn't bad... but I feel like they didn't quite catch Jodi's personality. It was mostly people telling us how amazing she is, but all we see is her being down or whinging about something. I would have liked to see the more caring and "fun" side. It was stated that she was "fun" a few times, but where was that?? It was very choppy in a few bits. Like there were scenes missing that could have added to the experience. There was one part, though, that made me a bit mad, and that was the caesarean part. I haven't had one myself, but that was incredibly offensive to millions of women. It's as though they were made to feel ugly for bringing life into this world and something that usually comes from an emergency. Not cool guys. The rest of the movie was average. In saying that, it was a nice, easy watch when you want to just turn off the brain and watch a Netflix teen romcom.

A sweet teen movie

[amytudorin · 6/10 · 16 September 2019]

I'm not going to rant on about the plot because you can Google it but I will say that this is an adorable movie that for once didn't have the clearest ending. For once the main characters weren't 30 year olds playing 17 year olds and I think it was, overall, pretty realistic. The characters were pretty good and, as a short girl, I couldn't always relate to Jodi but the movie is about so much more than just height.

Not realistic

[ladylions · 1/10 · 22 September 2019]

As a 6'2'' female this is highly unrealistic. People are not this shallow. This movie made it seem that being tall was a disease. Ridiculous.

I liked it.

[ciociajenny · 7/10 · 14 September 2019]

Yes it was a Dumplin for Tall Girls. Which I loved Dumplin!!!! If you havent seen it go and watch it NOW!! Its a typical teen movie like in the 80s teen movies. But I liked this story too. We always see the chubby girl we never see a tall girl. Unless shes playing for the basketball team etc.... It was a cute movie. I loved Angela Kinseys role! Its so different from her office role lol. And Jodys sister that actually sticks up for her sister is great!

Great butchering of Sweden!

[soffsskrap · 1/10 · 15 September 2019]

Next time Netflix desides to make a movie with an exchange student - try casting one that actually speaks the language! The swedish was awful, the accent was horrible! It sounded like a mixture between made up german and russian combined. There is a distinct swedish accent, the actor just didn't have the decency to learn it. And sidenote, Sweden is the second best English speaking country for it not being the first language in the world, so a big part of the swedish population doesn't even have an accent. And also - no person in that young age would be named Stig or Ingvar. Those would be the names of 80 years old men. Is it to much to ask for Netflix to get an accent and a name correct? Instead they are lett with a really unbelievable story. Gör om gör rätt.

Accept yourself movie

[sonia-95111 · 7/10 · 16 June 2021]

I decided to write a review because of all the awful reviews this film has received. It's a watchable film and not half as bad as the reviews it has gotten. Jeez! It's cute and worth watching!

File Under: Movies Written to Fulfil a Fantasy

[Lia-74937rs · 1/10 · 17 September 2019]

I spent most of my life a head taller than everyone else and while I was never bullied for it I was always very self-conscious, so when I saw a movie coming out about someone feeling a lot of the same doubts I have felt I was excited. Dont bother getting excited. This movie enforces every trope I thought (hoped) we were done with. Male bully secretly likes her - please stop telling young girls that if someone is mean it's because they like them, all this narrative does is encourage abusive relationships as an ideal. The real kicker was the girl who has had no interest in a guy for as long as they've known each other, suddenly at the end of the movie she flip flops and likes him - just keep persisting and she'll change her mind right? Shut up, if someone shows no interest leave them alone. It was at this point in the movie that I had to Google who wrote it. Theres no information beyond a name for this person but I must assume Sam Wolfson is a man writing a film because his high school crush didnt like him back because this wasn't a movie for tall girls who feel self conscious, it was a movie for boys who cant take a hint and think a girl should eventually give in if they persist enough.

All in all a bad movie that sends bad messages for what young girls should expect a relationship to be like as well as for how young boys should treat women.

Big issues aside it also just wasn't funny. I love Angela Kinsey and Steve Zahn and expected a movie with the two of them might be at least a little bit entertaining, but alas, I was disappointed, I don't think I laughed once, and it's not hard to make me laugh. I would laugh at a half decent knock-knock joke, but not this movie. Very disappointed.

Not that bad.

[amy-47543 · 15 September 2019]

Now, it wasn't amazing. I can see the argument that it's kind of out dated. But I will say I disagree that 6'1 isn't tall. I don't know what average heights (and shoe size) are where y'all live, but I'm only 5'8 and I get comments on how tall I am. I don't get made fun of but just pointing out how 6'1 is definitely tall here in sunny California. I don't think I know any one that tall and I would definitely notice at my school. Now over all, I think the movie was cute and entertaining. It wasn't like revelation or groundbreaking, mostly just repeated lessons of self worth that you see in most movie like this. But still, I enjoyed it.

young love

[brhomy-65743 · 6/10 · 18 September 2019]

When a young gay falls in love with whole passions and all what he's cares about is you are happy and enjoy

So far fetched and stupid story

[anyalegs · 1/10 · 13 September 2019]

She's not even that tall. I'm a 6'3" female and I was never a social outcast. I always had a ton of friends and had a fantastic high school experience. My height helped me get recognized in sports. Getting a full volleyball scholarship to a Div.1 school. I've had modeling gigs and I love standing out in a crowd. This show shames tall girls like we're supposed to be embarrassed about it. This is a lame story.

It was cute

[debdabootchic · 8/10 · 5 October 2019]

This wasn't an award winning movie but it was cute ~ a little unrealistic in the fact that they made her out to be freakishly tall but she's not. I can't say anything terrible about it and it's one you can watch w your tweens. I enjoyed it!

Not just another teenmovie

[helenehc1 · 7/10 · 21 September 2019]

The Key point of this review: It gave me an amazing feeling of seeing a TALL GIRL in the lead role! Being a tall Girl myself, it is a nice feeling to see an actress on tv and be able to relate to that person!

unfortunately the movie had a lot of clichés which ended up overlooking some of the important dilemmas that you meet out there. No reason to make a movie with so many stereotypes. No need to make you feel bad for the main character, next time just make a movie with a tall or a short or a skinny or a fat or a normal Girl as the lead role, and make her confident from the beginning.

The exchange student "Stig" was in no way Swedish

[mprebble-32259 · 3/10 · 15 September 2019]

Started watching this movie and it was watchable up until the point the "Swedish" exchange student began to speak English with a forced accent that didn't even sound remotely like a Swede speaking English and then his "Swedish" was clearly an American that had learnt a few lines of Swedish... Why couldn't Netflix actually get an authentic Swedish actor for this role? Immediately after this the credibility of the movie was shot and we stopped watching .. it was too painful to listen to.

Tackiest Movie Since Swiped

[douglas-skene · 3/10 · 14 September 2019]

Severely underwhelming coming of age film with some really strange choices at times re: parental shame, Cesareans, and stalking friendzoned chumps that can't take a hint.

Choppy edits, poor takes on the "mean girl" trope and no developed relationships between anyone. Surface level and cringe.

Swedish accent was also atrocious.

Little redeeming quality apart from picture and audio quality, which is a given from Netflix.

Overall a sweet movie!

[lisa-1150 · 7/10 · 16 September 2019]

Previous reviewers seem lost in the minutiae of this movie. I enjoyed it thoroughly!

Terrible with wrong messages being sent

[heidirebeccameyerallers · 1/10 · 13 September 2019]

Within the first 5 minutes, you could tell the movie was clearly terrible and not something I would want myself or my family to watch. What sent me over the edge was when they said a crude remark regarding caesarean c-sections, and "if she really wants to go through the rest of her life with a big, old scar on that beautiful torso...". I just had an emergency c-section and it's hard enough physically and mentally, society doesn't need a movie drawing out the negativites with the surgery because in reality, my child is here and healthy and that's all that matters, not some" big, old scar". However this day in society we tend to care too much about what is on the outside, and this movie encourages that.

As a fellow tall girl, I enjoyed this cute movie

[tallgirl-45656 · 7/10 · 15 September 2019]

As woman who is 6'1.5" (don't forget the half!) and always the tallest girl in school, I can completely relate to the struggles Jodi faces in this movie. The dumb jokey "Green Giant" "do you play basketball" comments always got on my nerves and I always felt out of place just like she did. I had a short boyfriend in HS and everyone teased us and made comments, but it just shows how superficial people can be. I finally found my peace with my height and wouldn't want to be any other way! This is a fun movie with a good message and not here to solve world hunger, so just enjoy it for what it is. I do think they purposely casted very short people in this movie to make her look even taller. My fave line was the very last and what I choose to do - stand tall!

"Pretty in Pink" rip off

[sqpudm · 1/10 · 14 September 2019]

Lot of characters and situations are taken from "Pretty in Pink", especially Dunkleman who is in love with the main charcter, sounds, looks and behaves like Duckie.The ending is the alternative ending of "Pretty in Pink"

Could have been much better.

[Dev1999 · 13 September 2019]

Some turns the movie takes are a bit annoying, and the score is too noticeable and tiresome after a while. But otherwise I actually liked it for the most part in its first hour or so. It's an innocent little teen comedy and I don't see too much wrong with that personally. However, most things toward the end are unforgivably kitschy and cringey which really brings the whole flick down by a lot. The performances, even if by people who mostly didn't act much or at all before, are very solid. Tall Girl overall is so surface level and just not good enough, even if it has some honestly good flashes of a kinda nice movie. On a sidenote I gotta say Maggie Rogers' Light On at the end was such a nice surprise, but the song was edited weirdly which sort of fits this whole movie. It could have easily been so much better, but simply wasn't in the end because of odd choices in the script which made the flick feel silly by the time the credits started to roll.

Surprisingly good for what it is

[easterlily-60116 · 7/10 · 30 September 2019]

Before my actual review, I dont actually understand all the negativty around this movie. Yes there are some querks and yes the film plot is very unrealistic framing swedes as a pretty silly stereotype. Being a swede myself I can easily see through how the movie producers really did not care for researching how to make a character and actor appear swedish - i mean even non swedish speaker must admit that his accent sounds more german than any nordic language.

Anyway, all these issues aside, I genuinly enjoyed the movie. Being of a genre thats supposed to be a bit silly and shamy, you have to be the right type of person to understand it and i think im one of those. Dont take it too seriously and give it a shot.

Worst Movie of 2019?

[troy-daniel-bush · 1/10 · 18 January 2020]

The movie is of the opinion that even though the main character is a very attractive girl, since she is tall, she is therefore ugly. Yeah... That makes zero sense!

This movie is littered with embarrassing high school movie clichés!

• The bully is a bully because she's insecure
• Token black girl best friend combined with the quirky best friend cliché
• Makeover
• Clichéd insults like, "How's the weather up there?"
• Handsome foreign-exchange student
• Main male character has a crush on main female character
• Main female character has no interest in the main male character until the end of the movie

There are stupid set ups with equally stupid payoffs. Like the box the main male carries around. I mean, seriously?

And what is up with the cinematography of this movie? It doesn't fit at all! It's like the director saw Mr. Robot and thought to themselves, "Ooo, yeah, I want to do that!"

Not award worthy but enjoyable

[fatt1988 · 8/10 · 23 September 2019]

I really don't get the hate for this movie as if most of the people who write the review is expecting and award worthy film. I don't care much about the Swedish accent since English isn't my native language anyway. I found the movie is fun but the script isn't really good at point and it really kind of cliche in a way. However I enjoy this movie as much and didn't expect that the main character didn't get the Prom Queen as I would think it is going to be which is great. I'm 5' 11" and 6" taller than average height in my country an 6'2" is really tall here (don't get it why some complaint she isn't tall enough).

Enjoyed it.

[Cavebear1 · 7/10 · 10 October 2019]

Just another coming of age movie. Although there are plot points to wince over, I for the most part enjoyed it, and thought Ava Michelle did a good job in her first leading role.

Awful lol Save yourself and dont watch this

[WpgJetsFan80 · 3/10 · 14 September 2019]

Some people are trying so hard to be oppressed. Such a corny movie. Like somebody had a terrible idea for an afterschool special and turned it into full length movie with cheesy dialogue, horrible acting, and just bad directing. It was raining all day on my day off so I stayed in and watched netflix. Should have just went and sat in the rain instead of putting myself through this.