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Broadcast via webcast, we hear how high school student Olive Penderghast (Emma Stone), tired of having to explain why she never has a boyfriend, decides to invent a secret liaison with a boy just to shut her friend Rhiannon (Aly Michalka) up. Unfortunately her fake tale of one night romance is overheard by the schools prissy, bible-waving do-gooder Marianne (Amanda Bynes), and the rumour mill starts. Not seeing the need to protect her reputation, Olive agrees to help out a gay friend being bullied, arranging another fake night of passion to complete the ruse he is straight. It's not long before all the bullied kids are knocking on Olive's door hoping to boost their social status, and what's wrong with a girl getting some payment for her fake romantic services?

Avoiding the saccharine predictability that befalls too many teen comedies these days, Easy A owes everything to the bright new star that is Emma Stone. She's impressed before in Superbad and Zombieland, but this is her clear arrival as a leading lady. She's sassy, ballsy and sexy as the charming Olive Penderghast, the kind of cool, witty high school virgin that only seems to exist in the movies. Olive is someone you'd want to be friends with, although you'd have to be prepared to be shot down down by her witticisms.


I actually enjoyed parts of Will Gluck's previous directorial effort, 2009's cheerleader comedy, Fired Up! It took what I expected to be a formulaic high school film and laced it with a dry, witty and at times acerbic sense of humour. Both films carry that similar sense of humour, picking apart the addictive but lame parts of life. Take Easy A's constant use of Natasha Bedingfield's 'Pocket Full Of Sunshine' as an example; it gets highly addictive. If Gluck continues making films this smart and funny, I'm confident he'll become a big comedy director.
It does veer towards predictability towards the end, but has a nice nostalgic nod to John Hughes' films that'll make you leave smiling. Easy A is smart and sassy, and well informed by all the teen movies that have come before it. A word of warning though...be prepared to have 'Pocket Full of Sunshine' in your head for the next few weeks.
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